JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited April 2018
I was reading an article on Weather Underground about record-setting hailstones, which pretty much says all you need to know about me, when I came across a picture of my dad.
Back in 2004, I was home from college with a friend of mine, and we were driving to the county fair with my parents. There had been some severe hail and heavy rain the night before, and we came across what was usually a dry creekbed. Unexpectedly, there was a small river flowing through it.
Even more unexpectedly, there were glacier-like cliffs of ice towering fifteen feet above the creekbed.
Upon closer inspection, the cliffs were made of tightly-packed hailstones, each about the size of a pea.
Water was still draining from the surrounding pastures, carving caves and runnels through the drifts of hail.
Fortunately, since we were going to the fair, we had our camera in the truck with us, so my mom and I snapped some photos. Through a friend of the family, they ended up in a New Mexico geology journal and thenceforth to the internet.
Keep in mind that this was August. August in New Mexico, for those keeping score at home, is not traditionally a tundra-like environment.
Also, check out the rad fuckin' coat on Baby Jedoc.
Edit: upon closer inspection, Baby Jedoc is also wearing a Barenaked Ladies Maroon t-shirt. Aww yeah.
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So were those hail glaciers a one off phenomenon or is it a reoccurring thing?
I've been wandering the woods for over 30 years and hadn't seen one till today. I also saw her fly 3 times and I saw her moving her babies one at a time to another tree. She holds them in her mouth and they wrap themselves around her neck and she carries them on the ground.
The lighting sucked but I'm still excited I saw them!
So were those hail glaciers a one off phenomenon or is it a reoccurring thing?
It's a pretty rare phenomenon, and I haven't tracked down any more extreme examples online. However, the high plains are a natural breeding ground for high-volume hailstorms. All of the examples mentioned in this blog post are within a couple of hours of where I grew up.
Looking back, it's a miracle we were able to buy hail insurance for the crops.
I don't know how big this will be but here's a picture of a snail on a flower in the bushes outside of my workplace. The snails come out like crazy when it rains! As always, click through for higher-res.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Cloud cover is allllmost developing some decent mammatus formations ahead of this evening's tornadic storms. Hopefully I can snap some better ones later this month.
@Brovid Hasselsmof and I went for a walk and got chased by wild baboons today. Fear of having my face ripped off had a detrimental effect on framing/focus
Murder kitties are cool but did you see the non-murder puppies??
Yeesssssss
Check the pet thread for vids - I felt so bad that you missed them ( they were still too young to cuddle though. But the grown-up dogs wanted allllll the hugs)
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Back in 2004, I was home from college with a friend of mine, and we were driving to the county fair with my parents. There had been some severe hail and heavy rain the night before, and we came across what was usually a dry creekbed. Unexpectedly, there was a small river flowing through it.
Even more unexpectedly, there were glacier-like cliffs of ice towering fifteen feet above the creekbed.
Upon closer inspection, the cliffs were made of tightly-packed hailstones, each about the size of a pea.
Water was still draining from the surrounding pastures, carving caves and runnels through the drifts of hail.
Fortunately, since we were going to the fair, we had our camera in the truck with us, so my mom and I snapped some photos. Through a friend of the family, they ended up in a New Mexico geology journal and thenceforth to the internet.
Keep in mind that this was August. August in New Mexico, for those keeping score at home, is not traditionally a tundra-like environment.
Also, check out the rad fuckin' coat on Baby Jedoc.
Edit: upon closer inspection, Baby Jedoc is also wearing a Barenaked Ladies Maroon t-shirt. Aww yeah.
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I've been wandering the woods for over 30 years and hadn't seen one till today. I also saw her fly 3 times and I saw her moving her babies one at a time to another tree. She holds them in her mouth and they wrap themselves around her neck and she carries them on the ground.
The lighting sucked but I'm still excited I saw them!
It's a pretty rare phenomenon, and I haven't tracked down any more extreme examples online. However, the high plains are a natural breeding ground for high-volume hailstorms. All of the examples mentioned in this blog post are within a couple of hours of where I grew up.
Looking back, it's a miracle we were able to buy hail insurance for the crops.
Wish I could have gotten an aerial of the sunset in CO tonight, we had some amazing clouds. Alas, all I had was my phone...
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phone shot so not brilliant
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we also saw a leopard (no pics)
Brovid Hasselsmof, Wildlife Photographer.
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Yeesssssss
Check the pet thread for vids - I felt so bad that you missed them ( they were still too young to cuddle though. But the grown-up dogs wanted allllll the hugs)
A spider taken from my phone
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
No, no. The spider lived in the phone and has been arachkidnapped. This is the plot to Taken 4.
“I have a particular set of silks”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Saw some mountains:
Met some funny tree stumps:
Made a fire:
It was good.