PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0522 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE OZARKS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE LOWER TENNESSEE AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT... THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW STRONG...LONG-TRACK TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER PARTS OF THE OZARKS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE LOWER TENNESSEE AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE ARKANSAS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SOUTHERN INDIANA WESTERN KENTUCKY NORTHERN AND EASTERN LOUISIANA SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI WEST TENNESSEE ELSEWHERE...SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM...THE WESTERN GULF COAST NORTH INTO THE LOWER MISSOURI AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THE STRONG JET STREAM DISTURBANCE IN PART RESPONSIBLE FOR YESTERDAY'S AND THIS MORNING'S INTENSE STORMS IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE NORTHEAST INTO IOWA AND MISSOURI BY EARLY FRIDAY. AT THE SAME TIME...THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBANCE...NOW NEAR TULSA...WILL STRENGTHEN AND MOVE TO NEAR DES MOINES. A BROAD CURRENT OF SOUTHERLY WINDS SPREADING NORTH AHEAD OF THE OKLAHOMA LOW WILL FEED VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR INTO THE MID MISSISSIPPI...LOWER OHIO AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME...A BELT OF 130 MPH JET STREAM WINDS SKIRTING THE EDGE OF THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL SWEEP NORTH AND EAST INTO PARTS OF ARKANSAS...MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS. THE COMBINATION OF INCREASINGLY WARM AND HUMID AIR WITH VERY STRONG ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS THAT CHANGE DIRECTION WITH HEIGHT WILL CREATE A FAVORABLE SETUP FOR LONG-LIVED ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE SUPERCELL STORMS WILL CONTINUE EAST AND NORTH INTO ARKANSAS...SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA FROM OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA. OTHER STORMS LIKELY WILL FORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI ...TENNESSEE...KENTUCKY...ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND POSSIBLY LONG-LIVED TORNADOES...IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ELSEWHERE...A SEPARATE AREA OF SEVERE STORMS...INCLUDING SUPERCELLS...MAY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...SOUTHERN IOWA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THESE MAY YIELD HAIL...LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO OR TWO THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. THOSE IN THE THREATENED AREA ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND TO LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS LATER TODAY.

Mr. Red Foley…..

the possibility of tornadoes within 25 miles of a given point…

the possibility of 3/4 inch hail or larger within 25 miles of a given point..

the possibility of winds 50 knots or higher within 25 miles of a given point..

Mr. Faron Young and Willie Nelson..

G'Day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe!

Gonna pop in and do another blog here.. mainly because of the weather, dreary and cool outside right now… staying with the music I grew up with.. gonna have Mr Webb Pierce start this show… a little tune called “There Stands The Glass”..

Soooooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair and visit a spell…

gonna touch up on the weather briefly… had some rain, a little hail and wind yesterday the more severe weather stayed south this time around...however another round of weather is coming tomorrow.. Here is a graphic from Norman, Okla. for tomorrow showing the possibilities of severe weather within 25 miles of a given point..

also here is a graphic of the amount of rain forecasted to fall between tonight (Weds.) and Saturday morning…

and I wouldn’t be in too big a hurry of putting plants out this weekend if your in my part of the world, lows in the 30’s and they’re not ruling out the possibility of snow either…

and taking a break here is Mr. Cal Smith in a tune called “It’s A Lovely World”…

the weather we’re having is not favorable for a lively little dog like Bree… and there is nothing worse that a bored Jack Russell…

going back outside for a minute, in the following photo you can see a couple of doves feeding underneath the finch feeder….

the finch feeder is filled with thistle seed… the finches, of course can feed off a perch, being the sloppy eaters they are put about as much food on the ground as they eat… and the ground feeders like the doves love it… when the finches move in so do the ground feeders..

Well, we can’t any country music without this gentleman, Mr. Ernest Tubb… wanted to do Waltz Across Texas but couldn’t find a decent video so choose this tune instead, called “You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry”…

Got a few indoor projects to tidy up on and get supper started later… here is the recipe if anyone is interested…

So better scoot and finish up the day and get ready for the weather event for tomorrow...Soooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' gooooooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next time if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....

I think they should make this next song by Hank Thompson the national anthem.. just us good ole boys being “different”…one of my favorites ….

G'Day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe!

wasn’t going to blog today but have some weather related items and more music soooooooo here I am.. Continuing with some oldies, got a little Hank, a couple of ladies, and a Left…. so lets get this show on the road..

Soooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair and visit a spell…get us started Mr. Hank Williams..

going to have some stormy weather this afternoon, you folks to the SW should already be getting it.. Cara, Debbie, Cricket and all my friends in that part of the world doooooooooooo be careful… here is the latest from Norman, Okla…

The possibility of a tornado within 25 miles of a given point

The possibility of winds 55 knots or greater within 25 miles of a given point

The possibility of 3/4 inch hail or larger within 25 miles of a given point

And for Thursday which is suppose to be stronger than the one we’re having today

Ready for a break, I am… one of two ladies I grew up listening to, Mother Maybelle Carter doing “Wildwood Flower”… that’s her doing the lead picking and singing..

Back to the weather briefly here is the latest for my part of the Universe..

PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS LOW PRESSURE AND A WARM FRONT APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE WARM FRONT WILL BE LOCATED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. PRESENT INDICATIONS SUGGEST THE TIME FRAME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM 200 PM UNTIL 900 PM. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE NEAR THE WARM FRONT AND SURFACE LOW. THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT TO OUR EAST AFTER 900 PM.. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CURRENT INDICATIONS SUGGEST THE PRIMARY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE FROM 200 PM UNTIL 900 PM.

Here is how my world looked this morning, birds and other creatures were busy starting the day..

checked out the compost bin while I was out and about… getting it started.. I let worms do all the work, you know

came back inside and checked on the weather while listening to this lady, Kitty Wells.. a country legend… the name of the song is “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”…

had to repot the tomatoes, they were getting too big for the smaller pots.. won’t put them out till the end of the month..

got the homemade flowing bird bath going… the birds love this one….

and I got the bog ponds ready, the day lillies were starting to come up…

Well, I’ve bored you people long enough and have to get ready for the weather event.. may not be in here or online much this afternoon….Soooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' gooooooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next time if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....

and finally Mr. Lefty Frizzell will finish this show...how about it ladies, any Texas Two Steppers out there wish to join this ole Marine????…

G'Day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe!

Going to do a short blog here, had a busy weekend in the yard and garden, “spring cleanup” as it’s called … also some maintenance items… for the next few blogs gonna play the music I grew up with… some is kind of hard to find a half century later because that was BEFORE country wasn’t cool..

anyway I met this person on a couple of occasions.. Mom and Dad had a local band and they would play on the radio, at dances, fairs and the like.. he was known as the “Tennessee Plowboy”, Eddy Arnold… I use to listen to him quite a bit on the WLS Barn Dance.. but first a little something from the Barn Dance…

Sooooooooooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair and visit a spell… I danced many a dance to this one…

was a busy weekend trying to tidy up, looks like a stormy week…just remember it’s subject to change... here’s the latest for my place in the Universe..

here is today’s outlook from Norman, Okla.. so you folks down wind to the SW of here keep watch on the weather… possible tornadoes, large hail, strong winds along with more rain…

this is the way things are shaping up for tomorrow….

so needing to get some loose ends finished today and “batten the hatches”…. this was one of my mom’s favorites…

this was how things looked here when the sun come up this morning…

with the weather being so nice, Bree has been going at a dead run sunup to sunset trying to keep the neighborhood under control.. crashes and burns around 10 PM and won’t move a muscle till sunup and then do it all over again.. feed her two pounds a food a day and she burns up three..

< here’s a picture of a blackbird standing watch…>

they are starting a nest in the top of the pine.. a pair of doves have a nest started just below them… he’ll sit there and sound the alarm if anything approaches and soon you have a flock of them there ready for a fight.. All kinds of birds use those pines for different reasons as well as other trees… they, along with other yard folk here, have food and water here and no one bothers them...Bree and Miss Daisy see to that…

well I had better scoot, got to go finish up the day… gonna have grilled pork cutlets and leftovers today, beef stew on the agenda for tomorrow.. Soooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' gooooooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next time if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....

G'Day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe!

Gonna post a short blog here for the weekend… some of the biker boys down a Billy’s pub pop into my blog every now and then and last night they put in a request for some Johnny Paycheck beer drinking music so I said not a problem… I have three of them, will start with Old Violin, put I Feel Like Crying somewhere in the middle and finish with my favorite The Outlaws Prayer….

Sooooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair and visit a spell….

My new pc came yesterday and in the process of getting it set up… dreary and cool today so now’s the perfect time to be working on it.. just getting the basics for the moment… this weekend is suppose to be a good one.. Saturday; Mostly sunny, with a high near 61F degrees. Southwest wind between 3 and 7 mph. Saturday Night; Partly cloudy, with a low around 37F degrees. South southeast wind between 5 and 7 mph Sunday; Mostly sunny, with a high near 67F degrees. South wind between 7 and 13 mph.

With that being said it will a busy time and I probably won’t be in here much if at all until Monday or so… could be a rainy week next and got the ponds, some wiring and the like to do… and fire up the charcoal grille to make it official… So with that I’ll see you folks next week…. a little more Paycheck

so taking this time to wish everyone a

and you will always been in my

and may all your nights be enchanting and full of sweet dreams and your days be filled with laughter and happiness and may the breezes surround you with heaven sent love….Soooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' gooooooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next week if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....

and now my favorite Paycheck song