okay how's the weather been out there
well the last three days it's been pretty rainy we went to the beach and uh it started uh let's see around four o'clock
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and uh it had thunder and lightning it was and then you know it was just overcast and rainy for uh the next two two or three days straight how about yours
it's been pretty normal for this year you know uh they have tornadoes about once a week and it rains about every three days the last two years before they've had record rainfall
by this time of the year they'd had enough rainfall for the whole year but this time we're only um i think maybe five inches ahead of of uh normal so it's not been bad at all
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you're from Virginia
i'm from Texas
oh from Texas
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and uh
i heard they had some flooding down there
um they had some flooding in Houston the other day real real bad over i think it was over the weekend
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the radar just looked nasty with a bunch of red splotches all across it
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well the last couple of years we're um we're over as far as our rainfall goes before that it was really dry and uh everybody was you know talking about rationing water and doing this and doing that
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not really rationing water but just cutting down and uh it seems like uh you know the weather pattern is just shifting and uh that uh jet stream is moving uh into our area North Carolina
yeah that's that's right
and across but it's uh changing latitude
there you
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oh yeah
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brings in that cold air and mixes it with the with the warm air coming off the Atlantic Ocean
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that's what
it's finally cleared up it's just now still still a little overcast but the sun but the sun has finally started popping out
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is the temperature like sixty sixty to eighties there too or
oh yeah well right now as a matter of fact i'm fixing to go play tennis it's um i'd say it's at least seventy nine eighty well about seventy eight seventy nine degrees
um do you get east winds a lot of the time from the ocean or
um actually the uh the wind normally blows let's see let me think about this south southwest
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yeah uh but actually but actually our i guess our weather pattern comes from the uh
blows north east yeah you're right it blows north east
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that's the way it does here most of the time
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but uh sometimes it just comes straight from the north and then it and then it doesn't veer off to the east until you get down to Houston or or uh maybe mid mid Texas depends on how strong the cold fronts are
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how far how far are you from Houston
um well uh Richardson's a suburb of Dallas
oh i see so you so you don't have you don't get anything off the Gulf uh immediately from from the ocean
hardly ever unless there's a hurricane or something like that
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well uh it's kind of early for for i was going to say the weather man on on uh one of our stations was
talking about the way that the weather's doing now is like tropical weather and he was afraid if it kept doing that that they'd have early hurricanes early hurricanes this year
hm well we've had some you know pretty pretty rough winds oh uh Bangladesh Bangladesh boy they they caught it bad
yeah
kind of wiped them out
but we'll probably have our share of the hurricanes i know uh Hurricane Hugo you probably heard about that uh last year
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wiped everything out
yeah and they're still uh rebuilding from that storm
so the the beaches here just get really beat up uh
and it usually comes this way
yeah
it comes up from uh Miami uh down around or you know around the Bahamas and it usually travels uh northwest
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and uh it'll go up the coast quite a ways before it finally hits
do you do you get many tornadoes this time of year or
um let's see two years ago we had one as a matter of fact it went within a mile of my house and uh it was real odd the um barometric pressure drops during a tornado and our uh fire alarm went off
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so of course that woke everybody up and we knew what was going on to uh you know go downstairs or go into the bedroom bathroom and uh take cover but uh
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we get uh yeah we're we're uh we get our share of tornadoes
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and uh the uh
uh you you aren't in the mountains or anything like that are you there's just hills there's just hills
no huh-uh we're about two hours from the beach so uh
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you know it's uh barometric pressure i believe is higher in the mountains and we catch we catch some winds you know a few winds coming off of them i think but uh let's see y'all just had a tornado
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uh over close to Oklahoma and Texas
yeah they they had a lot of them they had a a huge one that was on um Inside Edition the other night in uh the southern part of Kansas
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um they took a bunch of film of it it it uh
kind of chased them it was a few hundred yards away and it chased them under an underpass and it was tossing around the car right before it got there and it tore up the people inside the car
oh gosh
oh did it
and the the camera man on the news crew held the camera out they were hiding underneath the underpass and he held the camera out as the tornado went by
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and you the the wind you know it had a mike on it and the wind and everything was incredible
um boy i would have like to have heard that that could would have been something
i i'm surprised they didn't they because we saw it on the news a couple of days in a row and that and you know and that was way up in Kansas but over here it's a lot it's a big thing about tornados and people that get pictures of them
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uh-huh i used to live in Amarillo originally so i'm
yeah you can really see them well there yeah
oh yeah we used to sit out uh especially in Borger we use to sit out on our back uh picnic table
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and watch them come out of the sky through the funnel clouds and the only time we got worried is if it hit the ground but otherwise we'd just sit back there and watch them go in and out of those clouds
yeah
it's really strange the way it does that
yeah
especially the wa y it starts it starts you know just like a little swirl in the clouds and
and uh then it just grows from there
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and it and and usually it's not even raining when it starts it's just
yeah you'd be amazed at how clear the sky was but the clouds are just really uh uh rolling kind of just real pillowy i guess
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that's right and they're black and sometimes they're even green colored
oh well i was in that uh big tornado went through Wichita Falls
oh yeah
and uh the sky i mean we were right in the middle of it when i mean signs and telephone poles were dropping all around us
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and a whole roof of a restaurant came off and uh it was a eerie uh a real eerie blue green color
gosh
yeah
and the lightning was almost continuous just uh you know as if you put your hand on one of those electric uh things that causes lightning uh i think it was called the storm
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yeah that's it
but um the sky the whole sky was full of that eerie blue green uh lightning
wow
and that's about that's what we get this time of year just all the way sometimes all the way through June the last especially the last two years it's rained
um what i think it rained nine inches in in one one of the Junes the last two years and this year usually we usually get about five inches in May and it's it's over that so
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we haven't got that much rain but uh when it rains it's it's been down pouring
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all right well i hope you have good weather the rest of the summer
you too
have fun playing tennis
okay thanks bye
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