posted 06-19-2001 12:41 PM            

I was driving into a small neighboring town, Burnet, to pick up my daughter, and I watched while the bottom trail was being sprayed under the two trails previously made in giant arcs from south to north directly above Hwy. 281. I only saw one chemjet at the time, but he was really making tracks, and the upper level winds must have been non-existent because all three trails were almost perfectly intact from one end of the sky to the other...a true "ArcChemBow".

As I reached my destination after about 20 minutes of driving, I saw the same jet making the first cross trail in the grid at the middle of the chembow. I went inside to get my daughter, and by the time I walked back to the car, about 15 minutes later, there was another trail being sprayed under the first grid line, and I assume it was the same jet. The two crossing lines were only half as long as the chembow lines. Then the "activity" stopped, and the trails slowly spread out into puffy, wider trails, but remained intact much longer than any I had ever noticed before. The trails seemed to be at the same altitude as the cumulus clouds that covered most of the sky.

This all took place between about 3:00pm and 5:00pm, and when I went outside to see what was happening at about 7:00pm, THERE WERE NO CUMULUS CLOUDS AT ALL...NOT ONE IN THE ENTIRE SKY!! The really weird thing was that there were about four or five tiny line segments from the trails scattered around in the north and south skylines, as if the wind had blown away everything else but these little "suppositories". I immediately thought that the trails must have been "cloud dissipators"...?????...Has anyone else ever noticed this happening??

At sunset, around 8:30, or so, I went out and the sky was completely clear except for a few whispy clouds above the sunset in the lowest part of the western sky. They were gray and orange from the last rays of sunlight...and then I saw Mr.ChemJet diving into the sunset clouds with a long, reflective orange trail shining straight up and down in the fading horizon. It was as if ALL CLOUDS had to be DISSIPATED!!!! I really feel like the weather is being controlled by some of these trails, and I guess central Texas will be dry and cloudless for a while...

I watched the weather map on the Austin weather report during the late news last night, and you could see the cloud cover move across our area, and just disappear as it approached the area representing Hwy. 281. And this morning, it was still pretty clear with only a few puffs of clouds here and there. Of course, as I looked up toward the sun at about 8:45am, there was Mr.ChemJet at a much higher altitude blasting out a trail right across the sun, just as if he was waiting for me to look up. Too spooky... He left a really wide, thick trail, and it dissipated much more quickly than what was sprayed yesterday. I guess he was trying to control the sun...HA! Who knows.....?????.....

Well, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! Enough from Texas. How's it flyin' in your neck of the woods??

MollyGainYa, with love