White Christmas Video
Posted by Steven in Family, Fun, Holidays, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather on December 25th, 2009 at 05:20pm
Here’s a video to go with the pictures of our White Christmas.
Posts filed under 'Weather'
A White Christmas in Texas
Posted by Steven in Fun, Garden, Holidays, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather on December 25th, 2009 at 11:57am
Today is Christmas. It’s a White Christmas! We had snowed all day on Christmas Eve. It was 75 degrees and beautiful on the 23rd then it dropped to 30 degrees (that’s an insane drop) on the 24th, with 30 – 45 MPH wind! This “near blizzard” as they called it was unexpected and the amount of snow is very unusual for North Texas (three inches in Benbrook with some one foot drifts). How wonderful it was that it happened on Christmas Eve though, because here we are on Christmas day with snow all over the place… a real White Christmas. I even built a snowman. 
I’ll put together a video later… including some home storm chaser action of me jumping directly into the “blizzard” for some sweet footage.
P.S. Our street is frozen solid with 1 cm of ice (!) but it’s blue skies and sunshine again today so everything is starting to melt.
Autumn Snow in Texas
Posted by Steven in Fun, Garden, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Weather on December 2nd, 2009 at 11:33am
It snowed for a couple hours this morning. It was really pretty especially since some of the trees still have their fall colors.
I’ll probably make a little video of the snow falling later.
Promo Video for Storm Spectator
Posted by Steven in Fun, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather, Work on October 28th, 2009 at 04:36pm
Watch the promo video I put together for Storm Spectator, via the site’s nifty embeddable video player. Obviously, I did not take these photos. I just edited it all together.
God Bless America
Posted by Sudi in Family, Food, Fun, General, Holidays, Outdoors, Photography, Places, Weather on July 8th, 2009 at 09:38pm
We enjoyed an unforgettable 4th of July. Steven got me surprise tickets for a Concert & Fireworks Show at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. We arrived at 5:30 and stood in line (we actually sat in our lawn chairs under the shade of a huge Magnolia tree) for an hour. At 6:30 the doors were opened. It was a very hot day, but around 7ish, the temperature dropped to a comfortable 97 degrees so the rest of the night was very enjoyable.
Two options for seating were offered, “lawn” or “tables”. Steven “the genious” got us lawn tickets and we got to sit front and center in front of more than 10,000 people. We really had the best seats (grass) in the house. We laid out our old La Jolla beach towels and enjoyed fun snacks and drinks.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra did the fabulous concert. All patriotic marches and good ol’ American classics like Yankee Doodle Dandy. The grand finale was performed by a soloist, a young soprano who sang God Bless America, a huge flag unfolded in the back as she sang and the spectacular fireworks began. We had the time of our lives.
Home Storm Chasers II (Video)
We captured enough footage on one day last week to make a whole sequel to Home Storm Chasers. Here it is.
Home Storm Chasers II: 96 Degree Day with Golf Ball Hail and Lightning Striking a Rainbow
Also watch Lightning Storm Video. It shows more of the lightning in slow motion.
Lightning Storm Video
Here’s the evening lightning storm footage I mentioned earlier. The second half is in slow motion. I’ll post another video tomorrow showing a rainbow, hail and part of the neighbor’s roof flying away. It was a day of sweet footage!
Latest Thunderstorm Shots
Here are thunderstorm pictures from late May. The dark sky shots were from a storm that barely clipped us. Amazingly it hardly sprinkled. The later pictures are from the 96 degree day with golf ball size hail and lightning striking a rainbow that I wrote about here. I was so lucky to get that lightning shot. Thank you Sudi-Pie for finding the rainbow or I would have missed both.
Later on in the evening we saw near-continuous horizontal lightning very far away. I took a gig of video. This weekend I’ll edit that to show the lightning branching out in slow motion. I think there will be 3 or 4 really cool sequences.
The Day After Yesterday
I surveyed the wind and hail damage from yesterday. We only lost two tomatoes out of about 30 and possibly one sunflower out of about 20, but I’m seeing if its half-severed trunk will fuse back together. The others had their leaves pierced and a few were ripped off, but I’m sure they’ll be standing straight and tall again after a week of sunshine like last time. A periodic hail storm might even be a good thing. It sort of showed me which leaves to thin out and also provided some good soft organic matter for our compost bin.
I found our heavy-duty back doormat flipped over 10 feet away along with a sandwich bag and a tin foil dispenser. We didn’t lose any shingles and the pansies (they’re supposed to be dead by this time anyway) have again proven absolutely indestructible. Not too shabby!
Golf Ball Hail and Lightning Piercing a Rainbow
Today was 96 degrees. We were driving home when we saw this very small storm on the horizon in the afternoon. We weren’t sure it would get to us but it sure did! It got very windy (we saw some shingles flying across the sky) then it started dropping hail. We had a few pieces of quarter sized hail then ONE golf ball sized piece of hail dropped all by itself. I ran out and grabbed it because it’s the biggest we’ve seen yet and who knows if we’ll see anything like that again.
After the hail, Sudi saw a rainbow pop up, so I went out side to video it. I was lucky enough to also capture a cloud to ground lightning strike that crossed the rainbow! WOOHOO! What a day… I love weather, man.
