Thank you, Mindy, Moe, Cookie and Mike of Team Tabby, for bestowing upon us the Honey, I Shrunk the Pig Many Babies Blog Award! We couldn’t be more thrilled and neither could our many babies! Thank you!
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Now, to the Wild Cat Storm:
Winds calm, Barometer constant, limp seas with gentle swells. But wait! Instability predicted on the horizon. Alert: This is a wild cat storm warning. Hang onto your hats!
Tessa. The Calm Before the Wild Storm.
2012 © Colehaus Cats.
Suddenly, from the south, a squall line builds. This is a typical cat inversion. A low-level jet stream barrels in. Windspeed increasing with backing winds gusting at thirty-five, the dipping barometer indicates a low-level convergence increase developing with a typical Stratiform cloud appearance.
Tessa. The Wild Storm Begins.
2012 © Colehaus Cats.
Rising tail cloud with rapid rotating sidedraft building into a classic supercell. Surface windspeed forty-five miles per hour with gusts to sixty.
Tessa Goes Wild.
2012 © Colehaus Cats.
Directional shear indicates variable tail speed. Look for a strong microburst to hit the toy box shortly with damaging gust frontal attacks.
Wild-eyed, Wild Cat Tessa.
2012 © Colehaus Cats.
Pia: Hey Tessa, you okay up here? That weather announcer voice was starting to drive me a bit bonkers. How about you?
Tessa: Naw, I’m good.
Tessa Storm Calms.
2012 © Colehaus Cats.
Hee hee, too cat. They love to play storm.
Not just a small squall either, we’ll bet!
We have occasional microbursts that hit our toy box, too! MOL! Great post.
*boom!* Microburst again! Toys EVERYWHERE! We’re sure that was planned…LOL!
An apt description of the onset of “the crazies.”
More crazies just about an hour ago. Maybe it’s our rainy weather outside?
MOL, good stuff. We get the crazies too every now and then and it is so much fun. Hope your fun continues. Great pictures.
The crazies! Ha! We likes this!
Looks like a wild and furry good time!
Extra wild, we think and Tessa sure is happy afterward!
We had one of those storms earlier today, thanks to Binga!
Must be that time of year (day?). We had another one about an hour ago!
Thank you, this put a much-needed smile on our human’s face. 🙂
LOVE the wild-eyed photo!
We get storms a lot at our home too, mostly thanks to Nicki the Brat.
You’re welcome! The wild-eyed look seems to be an ongoing thing with Tessa. And no one does it better than her.
Congratulations on your award. Have a lovely storm free Monday. Ha ha. We smiled at todays post.
Best wishes Molly
Thank you, Molly!
What a fun game they play. It’s a furry fray of a cat storm.
That is a truly fascinating weather phenomenon! Do you have many like that?
Purrs,
The Chns
The tempest raged!! ConCats on your award 🙂
Yous guys is really funny!
Kisses
Nellie
Flynn gets the crazies like that too. I take cover until the storm has passed.
Eric
Hee hee, cute!
Gee! That’s the kind of storm Mom would like to see 😉 heehee
Tessa, we are hoping that one day the two panthers will be friendly.Right now,they are in competition 😉 heehee
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Tiger,Treasure,JJ and Julie
Haha! That was one wild storm!!
Ha ha ha! Sometimes, I have a crazy Category Three Hurricane over here all by myself and the Human just shakes her head and says, “Spitty, what’s wrong with you??”
Oh! Don’t *sniffle* — Spitty has no time for HUMAN foolishness! He always has tiem for teh kittehs. Please not to sniffle!!!
okay *sniffle* no more sniffling from us. The humans can sniffle all they want and we won’t give them any attention either.
Our guys are a little older, so they don’t get the crazies as often as they used to. But we sure do love watching them when they do! 🙂
Those are the extra special crazies! We consider ourselves lucky when Maxx, Seth or Miss Newton goes off on one of those.
Con-cats on your award!
Mommy’s MOL-ing reeeeal loud! She thinks that weatherman’s FUNNY!
Those were some stormy seas! Glad you girls are ok!
Harry, Dexter and Tipp
MOL, if the weather were reported like that, we’d watch! Thanks for visiting. Always nice to make new friends. Meow from Malaysia! Au, Target and Guido
Sending new friend purrs to Malaysia! Thank you for visiting us! Purrs…
Tee hee, Tessa, it might be only for our colouring face-wise, but my mom thinks we could be a bit alike. My name is Crazy-Cat at times.
Many purrs,
Chilli