A chilly start to May

I got home Saturday morning as the sun was coming up. The latest severe weather has kept me at work in over 2 years! James Paul came in and made the night pass a lot quicker. We had time to work on some new scan settings for ARMOR. We also did some cut-ins when that line of wind came through around 3-4 am.

One good thing about breaking into programming that late..the only people usually watching are those are turning on the tv to find out about the weather! I have yet to get a viewer complaint about interrupting an infomercial.

That wind event is kind of interesting. Gust to 40-50 and it brought many trees down. Even some minor roof damage reported along with power outages. The wind was well ahead of the line of storms.

This is not unheard of. Sometimes a strong gust front will travel many miles ahead of a squall line and cause damage. Saw that happen many times in Oklahoma. Not too common here though.

It might have been caused by a gravity wave. The explanation of which is probably to long winded to include here and if I put math on here the web master will shoot me.
For you amateur Mets. out there, this is a real interesting page on gravity waves. (warning-there is math here!)
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/akq/GWave.htm#Synoptic

Was it a gravity wave or not. Not sure yet. I really have been to busy to look into it further but I know the Mets. out at the WX service are wondering about it too. Will let you know what I find out.

NW flow aloft means another week of below normal temps....do you see me complaining???

Later,
Dan