This was Weird (Houston, Austin, Laredo: work, street , weather)

[parkk]

Ok, I have a question. I live about 15 miles south of Austin and yesterday at 5:30pm it started raining very light but there was not a cloud over head no where near by ? We have all experienced rain with the sun shinning but the nearest rain was 150 miles to the SW and it was only a level 3 or 4 tropical rainstorm ! This light rain lasted about 15 minutes and thank god my wife witnessed it ! I work in aviation and know a little about the weather and have always been a weather watcher but have never seen anything like that.

[love roses]

Welcome to Texas. I've seen this a ton of times. It's also fun when you're standing on the sidewalk or street and it's only raining on about a quarter of that street or sidewalk and it's sunny everywhere else. Or sunny all over. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and that sort of weather happened all the time.

[parkk]

Originally Posted by love roses

Welcome to Texas. I've seen this a ton of times. It's also fun when you're standing on the sidewalk or street and it's only raining on about a quarter of that street or sidewalk and it's sunny everywhere else. Or sunny all over. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and that sort of weather happened all the time.

I'm 46, lived here all my life, and have never seen it to that degree ?

[love roses]

Really? Have you lived pretty much just in the Austin area though? I've seen this more on the Gulf Coast where I grew up than I have here in Hutto. Maybe the cloud was just way up and pretty thin? I'm guessing here. Could be some rare weather phenom.

[citizen_jane]

Ok, ya want to know what's really weird? I live in Houston and I had the exact same experience with my husband yesterday. He finds me inside and says "you have to see this!". He tells me to look at our pool, "see it's raining, right?". Yes I see the rain drops. But there were no clouds in the sky! We're familiar with "the rain on half the street" thing and even the "it's raining in the front yard and not the back yard" thing but rain without any clouds was a first. So I believe you but I have no explanation.

[love roses]

hmmmm....Where's M.Night when you need him?

[parkk]

Citizen jane you’re scaring me ! That’s the same day I experienced it ! Yes like you said we have all seen the rain in the front yard and not the back but that’s with showers around. I saw the same thing, absolutely NO clouds in the sky except way out in the distance horizon, so I went in and checked radar and that’s when I saw the small thunderstorm between Uvalde and Laredo. I guess the upper winds could have carried the rain but this time of year the upper winds are not very strong. I wish I had checked winds aloft but did not think of it.

[usixly]

Please send some of this kind of weather to the Slaughter/Manchaca area. I'll be in the front yard waiting, thanks.

[rogramjet]

According to old-timey lore, when rain falls from a clear sky it means the devil is beating his wife...

[ttraider512]

the devil is married?