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A Promise Too Much

| June 5, 2012 @ 5:43 am

It was a silly promise that I should have known (after 60 years of weather) that I could not keep. About mid or late afternoon,  there was an impressive MCV draped across Arkansas. It seemed destined to move east and southeast. Silly me, I promised to stay up all night if necessary and track its path assuming that it would hold together and take a distinct path east and/or southeast. It had other plans.

The storms were not distinct enough. I set my clock at various times during the night.  By around 1:15 am a cluster had broken away and was moving across Middle Tennessee. At 9:18 pm there was a mean storm over Central Mississippi. At 3:50 am, there was no watch in effect and no mesoscale discussion. At 5 am there was a short line of nice storms over East Central Mississippi between Jackson and Meridian.

So here is the new game plan for the storms from the SPC:

* Slight risk today for West and Middle Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi, and the north half of Alabama and the Texas Panhandle into North Texas.

*I will fade away and try to get about three 30-minute naps and dream what could have been!

*Iwill never make such a promise again.

* Proves once more and again that Mother Nature and Father Nature are 10,000 times smarter than me! Seems like I should have learned that by now.

* And, I missed WeatherBrains. Again!

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