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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Weather Frustration

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Everyone has their own views of local weather. Here in Amarillo we would like a bit more rain than we have been getting (I know that elsewhere some have rain they would love to let us have in exchange for our lack of same, but bear with me).

Of late we have had a lot of rain in the area. Thanks to the Internet, we have access to weather radars and can watch the rain move.

It is extremely annoying to watch large thunderstorms move from the Southwest to the North East, completely bypassing us. It is more frustrating to watch a large storm heading directly for us, only to see it break up and die about ten miles Northwest of town.

The final straws are to see storms moving in that dissipate just West of town, and then suddenly rebuild and start raining again just to the East of town.

There has been a lot of moisture in the area, and we have gotten very little of it (we have gotten some, but not much).

Mind you, we are not complaining about the temperature, which for us has been running about 15 degrees cooler than normal for this time of year. We would be perfectly happen to keep that.

But can we please have some of that rain?