Spring 2025 Banter Thread

[Jackstraw]

Well, if it were only occasional "showers" this April instead of near Biblical rain, I am really enjoying it temp wise. It actually feels like Springs of old for once. Maybe its just getting older or maybe I just spent too many years in the broilers in FL/SC, I'm really dreading another hot summer. I spent 25 years where it was 95/75 for 6 months a year every day in the summer. Seriously thinking about moving North in a year or 2. A majority 70's summer sounds absolutely blissful. I can handle more snow. Hell we can't even get a foot in winter here now. It was 2-3 when I first moved back lol. But man that heat, I'm dreading it.

[Chicago Storm]

On 4/8/2025 at 7:20 AM, cyclone77 said:

Can't believe it's already been a year since the total eclipse.  

time is flying by.

[Powerball]

#BestClimo

 

[A-L-E-K]

too dry^

[A-L-E-K]

downstate really carrying state numbers so far

 

 

[CheeselandSkies]

60th anniversary of Palm Sunday '65. The very definition of a Midwest regional outbreak affecting each IA, IL, WI, MI, IN, OH with significant tornadoes. Nothing else comes close for this part of the country, even though a few have flashed potential (like 3/31/23).
 

 

[nvck]

On 4/10/2025 at 9:46 PM, Powerball said:

#BestClimo

 

lets come back to this in a couple months

[Spartman]

Suicide weather yesterday, it returns tomorrow. TWC/Wunderground now says it might as well include some rain if they have maintained overcast skies for tomorrow over the past several days. So much for the 1st dry weekend of Spring 2025. 

Normally we would have at least one dry weekend or two every Spring, but I feel that this is just not going to be our year. Even wet springs like 2011 had some dry weekends.

The last time it rained literally EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND the entire Spring was in 2019. 

[Chicago Storm]

Suicide weather yesterday, it returns tomorrow. TWC/Wunderground now says it might as well include some rain if they have maintained overcast skies for tomorrow over the past several days. So much for the 1st dry weekend of Spring 2025. 

Normally we would have at least one dry weekend or two every Spring, but I feel that this is just not going to be our year. Even wet springs like 2011 had some dry weekends.
The last time it rained EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND the entire Spring was in 2019. 

sucks 2 b u.

[TheClimateChanger]

A little light at the end of the tunnel that may help @Spartmanstep back from the ledge.

[Malacka11]

Pretty hyped for what I imagine will be a great greenup next week after some warmer temps and more rain

[iBrian]

5 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Pretty hyped for what I imagine will be a great greenup next week after some warmer temps and more rain

 

6 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Pretty hyped for what I imagine will be a great greenup next week after some warmer temps and more rain

i just got back from Nashville - quite pleasant and green, indeed.

[Jackstraw]

Had to go to Cardiologist in downtown Indy today so I drove back and kinda followed the track of that quasi long tracker from 4/2. Followed it from Brownsburg all the way to about 20 miles ENE of Muncie because, well WTH, not like I'm in any shape to go mushroom hunting lol.

Disclaimer... I probably (likely) missed a lot of stuff but I tried to follow the track and damage path from the NWS best I could. It was pretty amazing how that thing dodged (dropped) the really densely populated areas. I mean, from Brownsburg up through Zionsville and into Carmel/Noblesville areas, thats some pretty crowded grounds, some of the densest in the state, and it looks like it just snipped, or didn't drop, around the edges of them (it was pretty weak but still). When it moved NE of Carmel/Nobletucky all the way through the Muncie area it , it missed, once again just barely, all of the major populated areas as far as I could see. To be honest I saw some of the worst damage between Alexandria and Muncie, mainly N of the Moonsville area and the far NW side of Muncie. That would've been just on south side of the Bookend Vortex that was the main "generator" of the second half of tornado/tornado's but was right in line also with those confirmed reports of straight line winds of 80 to 100mph. NWS had it lift between just NW of Muncie over to OH ( and dropped another EF2 into the infamous Van Wert county tornado magnet lol and and another near Toledo) it may or may not have been on the ground in IN simply because there is nothing there but empty cornfields. 

So, yeah, it wasn't a "major" event by any means but I again think we dodged a major bullet that evening. I remember tracking that specific cell from MO all the way into OH as it dropped tornado's all along its path. For the areas it went through it's still amazing to me how it avoided, or didn't drop, into any of those huge box cutter subdivisions that surround Indy and Nobletucky that are just waiting to be matchsticked (I hate those things, imagine that lol). Like I posted previously we were an ingredient or 2 away from what could've been something along the lines of the '74 long tracker. Sorry, no pictures, I'm an airhead and wasn't thinking about it lol. Bookend Vortex first week of April? That was kinda nuts though 

Note: My neighbors husband who accidently turned the shower on while he and his wife were in the bathtub covered with couch cushions and scaring her to death that the roof had blown off when water started dripping on their heads is no longer sleeping in the barn lol. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

I want to believe.