that one's headed directly toward us in the next half hour. awesome.

just as it gets dark too

oh, joy

hopefully it diverts in a convenient way

it's only radar-indicated, there's a lot of shear in the system but not a lot of moisture to feed it

at least we're finally getting rain. and thunder, nitrogen up my planties plz

ah, well then, my fingers remain crossed but that sounds decently optimistic

rain is good though for sure!!

the weather here is being so deceiving for my garden, I look outside and go oh, sunny, I want to plant things

given that we'd turned on Baldur's Gate because I thought we weren't getting shit, this is...something more than nothing but not much.

step outside and it's still way too cold for that

oh nooo not cold

it's doing that spring desert thing where it'll hit 60 in the day but the wind is cold and then it dips back below freezing at night

I have radishes and carrots out that will be ok, and last year's fennel and collards don't give a single shit about the weather (or the rhubarb, yay first year I get to harvest rhubarb!!)

but I am dreaming of eggplants and peppers like a whole 6 weeks early

that was us this weekend, dewpoints in the 30s but it hit 82 on Sunday

I gave up and removed all the mulch, fuck it it's April let's go

and I laughed earlier because I watched the neighbor go out to stack his yard chairs so they don't blow away, but he left his expensive-looking refractor telescope on the deck.

like dude

oh jeez

fuck the plastic chairs, save the telescope!

ah warning dropped. not enough rotation to keep it up.

rip funnel

womp womp

oh it's back and too close for me to be happy

uh oh

I'm on call for spotter but I can't SEE in the dark so it's just. listening, mostly, for wind and hail

if only tornadoes glowed in the dark

bioluminescent dangerfunnel

that would be so cool though!!

I mean imagine

I guess it would put a lot more photographers in trouble lmao

I mean the super big ones can have enough lightning sort of in them to sort of be? but I really don't want an EF5

yeah no, nobody wants an EF5

especially not anywhere nearby

rofl I keep getting tornado warnings for Dane county and it took me a little to figure out why

that being said... stay safe

HA

I was thinking it was kinda warm for a storm, and therefore worried.

you were definitely in the warmer sector, it was chillier up here. but windy.

I have this one branch stuck in the anchor maple that refuses to blow loose. It vexes me.

oh no, it taunts you

It hovers.

maybe if it's windy enough in the next few days... (we all know it's never that easy)

It's really well wedged up there! Well out of reach, too.