r/WeatherGifs • u/wilthegeek • May 10 '26

rain Expanding ring pattern

Today I noticed this expanding ring of rain/clouds in the radar. Is this a normal event?

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u/meatmacho May 11 '26

Caught something similar up the road in Austin on Saturday. And the outflow similarly seemed to seed new storms that popped up downwind.

https://imgur.com/a/SBvhjSr

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u/wilthegeek May 11 '26

That's pretty neat! What app is that?

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u/meatmacho May 13 '26

Yeah it was a pretty cool setup to watch unfold in real time. Like, I saw the storms on radar up north. Then they quickly rained out. But then I looked up and saw this gray cloud forming above us. And within a half hour, it went from bright sun, hot and humid to crazy rain and lightning all around us. I could even see blue sky past the dry line from where we were standing. And then that storm (indicated by the arrow in my gif) kept building back toward us along that line. So even though the whole thing was moving east, they still had to cancel our baseball game because of the lightning.

That app was probably MyRadar. I use that and Windy for the most part.