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TheHumanTarget
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Am I the only person in the D.C. area that is extremely disturbed that our sunny forecast is being intruded on by thunderstorms? Now I'm really looking forward to driving home in my topless Jeep now... [Mad]
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Katarain
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I live in Georgia, and it rains every afternoon lately... It's a little early today.. It hasn't been starting until 4 or 5 most other days.

It's really ridiculous.

-Katarain

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Jay
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I should have been a weather man. The only job where you can be wrong over 50% of the time and never get fired! Cool.

I agree and think it is so funny that people even look at 15 day forecasts. Ha! They can’t get today’s weather right, much less what it’ll be doing two weeks from now!!

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kojabu
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I'm jealous of anyone who has rain.
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citadel
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Here in UT it's getting pretty hot and they closed a road due buckling from the heat.
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The Pixiest
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The fact that it's sprinkling here in late July is rather disturbing... Summer is usually nothing but green skies here.
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TheHumanTarget
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I had this nagging feeling that I shouldn't have left my windows at home, but then thought to myself "If Bob Ryan says it's okay...well he should know...right?"
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Well, yesterday here, I went out in my truck during lunch hour to listen to the radio. It was very hot, so I thought " I'll leave the windows down a little bit to keep it from being so hot when I come out after work." Listened to the forecast at noon -- hot, clear and sunny all day.

Of course, right about 3:30, a "pop-up" thunderstorm develops right over downtown. Pours 2 inches of rain in less than an hour. It's pouring rain when I leave work at 4:30, and, of course, my truck windows are down!

*sigh*

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Tante Shvester
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Last week I heard the radio meteorologist predict something like:

Mostly sunny with a chance of clouds, cloud cover may be heavy at times. Chance of rain or showers in the day, possibly heavy at times. A possiblility of thunderstorms exists for some time in the day. High temperatures from 78 to the low 90's.

I mean, I could do THAT! Just about the only thing he left out was blizzards!

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aspectre
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You do realize that being in an open Jeep during a thunderstorm makes you a human target? I'm fairly sure that the park ranger who held the world's record for the number of times of being struck by lightning was in an open-topped Jeep all seven times.
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TheHumanTarget
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Aspectre, thanks for the heads up. I should be okay though...there are a lot of tall buildings around me on the ride home.
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Tante Shvester
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quote:
I'm fairly sure that the park ranger who held the world's record for the number of times of being struck by lightning was in an open-topped Jeep all seven times.
You'd think that after the first half-dozen times, he'd learn to put the top up.

That was a shocking account. [Roll Eyes]

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