[FRIAM] This morning's hailstorm

[Gillian Densmore]

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".

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> On 5/6/25 12:25 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
>
>
> *To 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. *
>
> 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.
>
> NST -
>
> 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).
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> Schadenfreude much? yah...
>
> - SAS
>
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