We in the Panhandle have a nasal twang...it's all the dust in the air.
Dust Storm Warning in Texas Panhandle
This is the radar return; the amount of precipitation is signified by progressive shades of green/yellow/orange/red/yellow, etc., but the dust shows up as earth tones.
How apt.
Here's the wind velocity; the green is wind going towards the radar (Amarillo) and the red is the wind going away.
The different shades of color signifies the kts or knots per hour. (1 knot = 1.15 mph) The shade of red where Pampa is equates to around 50 knots, or right around 58 mph.
Amarillo radar (composite view/loop)
April 4, 2009
This is why....
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So are you a Pledge man, or an Endust man?
That radar image is something~!
I'm usually a wet paper towel guy; I don't have much furniture at all and what I have isn't worth as much as a can of premium furniture polish.
I'm missing shingles from my roof (think they're on a roof a few blocks down) and had a heavy lawn chair blow off my porch; not so impressive, but had it wedged in between two air conditioners.
Still blowing here and cold.
What I like about the radar site is it's a govt. site and we can use the images w/out worrying about a copyright because we own them anyway! (just like most of the NASA images)
The overlays are good, esp. the terrain ones, showing how the contours of the land is around a particular spot. I sent a screenshot to a friend to show her that, while a lot of this area IS flat, quite a bit of it isn't. People usually get that idea from driving along the interstate...which is necessarily built along the flattest stretches of land.
Thanks for posting.
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