[Az-Geocaching] Interesting weather today...

[Scott Nicol]

>From: "Brian Casteel" <bcasteel@cox.net>
>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>To: <az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Interesting weather today...
>Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 17:42:07 -0700
>
>While I was driving back to the 202 from Your Overactive Sprinklers At 
>Work, I witnessed a tornado on the ground on W. South Mountain.  In the 22 
>years I've lived here, it's the first I've ever seen, and it looked like a 
>reverse S coming out of the cloud, first vertical, looping up and back down 
>to the ground....Just after it dissipated, 2 more formed on flanking sides.
>
>Probably not a good day to be geocaching on the west side.
>
>Brian
>Team A.I.
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I too saw the same funnel cloud. I was working a KNIX remote broadcast out 
at I-10 and Dysart Rd in Avondale from 1-4pm this afternoon. The skies were 
dark to the south. But, we never got any rain. It did pour (heavy) from 
about 115 Ave eastward. It's amazing how it can rain so hard in one spot and 
1 mile away be totally dry! Gotta love this AZ weather! I never actually saw 
a tornado touch down, but, did see the cloud and the rotation in the clouds. 
It was pretty cool to see. Being a licensed pilot, I really enjoy weather 
and have a good understanding of it. So, I was definetly enjoying the rough 
weather we had this afternoon! :) I got packed up just in time before the 
big gusts of wind hit our location. Yikes!

When I got on the road, I turned on my weather radio and indeed there was a 
tornado warning that had just been issued for Tolloson and the west valley. 
I also saw some news crews heading out I-10 for that area, so, I was 
thinking a tornado might have touched down.

Geez, I spend nearly 3 weeks in Texas and no texas size hail, no heavy rain, 
no tornado's and nothin' but blue skies the whole time. I come home to 
Arizona and we get a tornado! Imagine that! Funky weather.

On the geocaching front, I was able to get a few caches today while in 
between jobs! :) Met up with D and D (Denny and Dan of Tres Hombres and 
LazyK) at the It's A Breeze Cache in Chandler this morning. Nice to be able 
to chat with them again for a bit. I also visited (at least tried to) the 
two new virtual caches in downtown Scottsdale. It rained on me the whole 
time I was searching for the cache questions needed for credit on those 
caches, but, I kept on looking!

Scott
Team Ropingthewind



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