Tues. 8/3 G-ville 5.2-5.7

[DimitriMilovich]

How does a great day start? Today it was n my AM run in the high aves, at 6:00, with just enough light to look for the rabbits having breakfast under the bushes, hacking cobwebs out of my lungs after cresting the one hill I go up, and to get a call from Grant: "Dimmo, Grant's is going off! Upper air is 30 knots!" Hmmm, it was warm and starting to move from the South... Yeah! "I'll be home in 30, call ya then!"

Grant kindly waited to meet me at work for the trailer hook-up to his rig at 7:15, and we were off to G-ville in his fun truck. Grant, Duane K. and I had the place to ourselves. Where were the regulars? Missed y'all.

Rippin' 5.7 totally flattened for me, coulda been on a 5.2 no problem until about 10 when it went 5.7-6.0 until the usual die-off around 11:00. The lake is still pretty high, the water is warm and the wind was kickin'. No photos this time 'cause the big D was on his new Tabou Rocket (after a two-month layoff). But if you're out there with him now, watch out, he'll run you over! I twice tried to haul him in and he walked away from me, and he carves HUGE SPRAY jibes around me when I'm swimmin'! Yipes, now I'll be eating wakes from both Grant (always fast) AND Duane! (Gotta fix the nicks in my fin...tune my battens...yeah that's it...wet-sand my board bottom...uh huh...sure, that'll do it...leave off my wet suit weight...downhaulouthaulchangeharnesslinesgobarefoot...aarrrgghh!)

For anyone who want's in on the go-button to G-ville, here's what G himself was looking at this am when he called me. If you see anything like this on the 6:00 AM upper air reading, and there aren't T-storms about, hightail it out there:

Height Direction Speed
feet degrees knots
sfc 150 7
5000 170 30
6000 175 30
7000 195 28
8000 235 20
9000 240 19
10000 245 21

PS -- The big G-ville indicator, Black Crook Peak, is broken again and shows NORTH/NE when it's actually blowing South (just look around at all other other stations on the Mesonet and you'll figure this out pronto, assuming there's not T-storm activity right over the Stansbury Mtns). But the speeds were right. It just gave us pause for a few minutes, but it was doing this about a month ago too.