<div dir="ltr">what F is going on the weather is complete ------------- 'd up. we WERE headed to a NORMAL spring and summer now it's this dogs ----------- weather. it's F********* my god damn home had a indoor swamp and if this B------ weather keeps it'll ruin a bunch sh______ .constant f'ing hail and now fing snow. Just fing "great".</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM steve smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Non-Santefeans: the occasion for this correspondence is
the fact that it has rained, thundered, and hailed pretty
steadily here for the last two days, a lot of it at
night. Total rain not that great (over an inch) but the
steadiness and the duration has be remarkable for this
desert town. <br>
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<div>Hi Steve, Certainly diurnal heating is the most common way
to kick of mountain thunderstorms with hail. The only thing I
can imagine is that the air is very unstable and there is
enough lift provided by the mountains to capitalize on this
instability. The radar shows a series of showers riding up
slope from ABQ to SAF. Also, as you will see from the chart
below which was made at just the time that another big
hailstorm was pelting Trader Joes, there is a long skinny CAPE
and all of it is above the freezing level. So there is
several thousand feet for hail to form in. All that airmass is
moving rapidly to the NE, providing a lot of sheer with the
lower levels. <br>
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<p>The weather patterns yielding MY hailstorm(s) have come from the
SW, effectively following the rio-grande and open low(er) country
W of ABQ (I saw that one of the big I40 Casinos shut down over
heavy hail a day or so ago)... Maybe it is Buckman Mesa uplift
that triggers *my* hail? 15 miles W of the Sangre foothils and 10
E of the Jemez shoulders (but part of the lava/tuff mesa system).<br>
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<p>Buckman Mesa seems to be a factor in my micro-weather patterns.
We have a *very* small watershed dedicated to us
(bounded/including) the E and N sides of Buckman... it means we
have *very* intermittent runoff but it comes with significant
flooding in the arroyo behind us... it goes from dry sand to 6'
standing waves in minutes every few years... this weather event
(still coming in gentle pulses) hasn't triggered that yet, but the
water infiltration wells built just N of Otowi Bridge (IMBY) and
the support infrastructure (mechanical building wiht backup
generators and pressure tanks) is at risk of A) being flooded in
ways the designers seem to not anticipate/acknowledge and B)
redirect waters to my neighbors (more than me, 10' higher than the
lowest property along a very gentle slope). <br>
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<p>This little bit of wet weather is incredibly welcome after no
appreciable moisture since a foot or two of snow late Autumn
(October/November?)... My attempts to get some forage/cover
growing for my chickens (and ourselves) has been fairly
unrewarding... but my experience is that the first rainstorm after
the ground warms (often not until June) always kicks off all the
seeds (wild and planted) with a vengeance. </p>
<p>I've been doomscrolling for climate tipping points for a while
and discovered that Rockstrom, et-al in Stockholm are now using
the term tipping-cascades... <br>
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<p>Me, I hope Trump builds an anchor Trump Resort property in
Southern Greenland just in time for the ice-sheet to slough off,
scraping him and his into the ocean and inundating all of his
near-coastal properties.</p>
<p>Schadenfreude much? yah...</p>
<p>- SAS<br>
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