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Episode 34 - Shawn Crowe - Central Kentucky Weather meteorologist

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Thanks to Shawn Crowe from Central Kentucky Weather for coming on to talk about the dry spring, near term, and log term weather outlooks and the expected El Nino's effect on our weather this summer. Follow his facebook page here : https://www.facebook.com/centralkentuckyweather 

Thanks to our episode sponsor Cyrus Bivens!

Thanks also to our studio sponsor Biotech Innovations.  Learn more about them at www.biotechinnovationsag.com.

 

SPEAKER_02

Welcome to Dirt to Dollars, where we cover everything from the dirt on your land to the dollars in your hand.

SPEAKER_03

We're talking all things agriculture in central Kentucky, from the field to the farm office.

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Join your hosts, Daniel Carpenter, Matt Adams, and Mark Thomas as we dig into current ag news, practices, and more. And now, coming to you from the Biotech Innovation Studios, here's Dirt to Dollars. Now let's get innovative. And welcome back to another week of Dirt to Dollars. Same old, same old this week.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we got to jump in, same dry, but we gotta jump in quick still to keep Daniel from opening with a joke. Yep. Good job.

SPEAKER_04

Well done. Yeah, so dry and busy on the farm side this week. Hopefully that's gonna change maybe in the near future. Stay tuned because we have a guest coming up later on in the show that could give a little bit more insight on that. But before we go much further, Daniel, who's our sponsor this week?

SPEAKER_02

Well, so this this week's sponsor is uh one of the sponsors that uh won uh the auction for our sponsorship at Central Harden FFA's Chili Supper. Hot dog and Chili Supper. Hot dog and Chili Supper. Hot dog. And and he paid paid pretty good money for it too. I heard he paid more than his father did for LaRue County. So this this episode uh is sponsored by Cyrus Vivens. Cyrus is a senior at LaRue. Oh, I heard two bang. Click on the click on the ding draw there. Cyrus is a senior at LaRue County High School where he is involved in 4-H and FFA, and some of his notable accomplishments have been being chapter president for FFA, placing in the top 10 for three different national 4-H competitions. Cyrus is attending Western Kentucky University this fall to pursue a degree in ag education as well as horticulture. Cyrus's future plans are to return to his family's farm, Fresh Start Farms, after high school, and continue to grow his family's operation.

SPEAKER_04

Go ahead and give that two more dings. Well, I was waiting on you to say his name again. Thank or thank him or something. Thank you to Cyrus Bibbins. Gotta let it ring. You can do better than that. That doesn't sound as good. No, it's gotta be that's the double donor. That was good. That one was good. That one was about okay. Yeah. I think he got as much worth out of the bingo on that one. Got plenty of dings. I just broke the record,$30 record for dings. So did he pay twice as much as his dad since he got twice as many dings? Probably at least twice as much as his dad. Yeah. You know why he was able to do that, right?

SPEAKER_03

He's a better farmer than his dad?

SPEAKER_04

Because he's go he's going to be a Western Kentucky University grad and not a UK grad like his dad. So the success is already snowballing before he's even taken the first class.

SPEAKER_03

That's that's one way to look at it.

SPEAKER_02

Well, Earth Day was this week. Did y'all celebrate Earth Day?

SPEAKER_04

Earth Day is every day for a farmer.

SPEAKER_02

Isn't it? That's what I thought. I had I I I I was slightly amused by how many people uh Wait a minute. When was it? It's the 22nd. Oh.

SPEAKER_03

So today, the day of the Earth.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so we're recording this on Earth Day. Well, happy Earth Day, everybody. Um, but I I I was just I know we talk a lot about AI and data centers on here sometimes, but uh I do think it's funny how many people get on Facebook and talk about Earth Day, and some of them even using AI generated pictures to talk about or Earth Day, just very that that kind of that's the kind of stuff that eats at me really bad. That just knows that the critical factor of that just really makes me cringe. But there's uh I don't know, and it's just funny when you see and some of the people you just expect it out of too. Like you're like, oh yeah, that's they wouldn't do that. They would do an AI thing and talk about Earth Day. Um, but even just using Facebook and all the I think it's awesome where there's like 28 or 29 data centers in America that are basically just meta or or Facebook focused. And so just the fact that you're using Facebook it's probably not the best Earth Day thing to do.

SPEAKER_04

I wish there was a way Facebook and Google too, because now anytime you Google something, it the first thing it does is pops up an AI summary. And I wish there was a way that you could just like turn all that off.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, well, even Facebook does like if you look up somebody's profile now, it'll give you an AI summary of like of that person, which is just really I don't want that.

SPEAKER_04

I need somebody smart, like computer genius, that could develop an app that would like like you know how you used to have the pop-up blockers on your computers that you'd like download. AI blocker like an AI blocker.

SPEAKER_03

But wouldn't that use a data center too?

SPEAKER_02

No. Technically, I mean, yeah, I mean, like, yeah, like Facebook, it takes data to run Facebook, but it's like, yeah, the AI part of it is just extra, right? Like it's doing it and you don't want it to, you don't need it to, and it's just burning up burning up resources for no reason.

SPEAKER_04

The AI Google stuff can be that can be problematic because it can get you in trouble. Because all AI is doing is pulling data, like it's not actually artificial intelligence, it's just gathering data from everywhere that it can. So if it's gathering data from the wrong place, it can lead you astray. That's where you better off just take five minutes and go down through the links when you Google something and actually look it up for yourself. Tip of the week.

SPEAKER_03

We've certainly come a long way from the time when the three of us were in college, and I think when you were writing a paper or doing something, it was only one source can be from the internet. Uh-huh. And it can't be Wikipedia. Yeah, and you had to cite your sources. And you had to cite your sources.

SPEAKER_04

AI doesn't have to I say AI doesn't have to cite its sources, but doesn't it usually have a little thing at the bottom? Usually that's where he's saying where it got him from. Yeah, it usually does. It does. And that's when you can usually tell that it's wrong.

SPEAKER_01

Well what source it pulls from.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, what source it's pulling from, because it is not very good at at screening sources. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I saw changing subject a little bit. I saw an update on uh some planning progress in the state. Have y'all seen anything about where we're at?

SPEAKER_04

Plant planting. Oh, I thought you said planning. I thought we were planning data data centers or something. What was it? The Central Hard and Parley team at Farm Bureau the other night. Got to call them data centers. Data centers. Them data centers. Yeah, I think that's it. Was this the first week that they released Plant in Progress number?

SPEAKER_02

It's the first week that I've seen it. Yeah. Because I generally they generally don't have much to report this early, right? Right. But what the number that I saw was released for I just saw the corn number. I didn't see the soybean number. Um as of April 20th, 48% planted in Kentucky. 23% emerged. And I think at the same time last year, uh, we were only 11% planted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But I think a lot of guys have pumped the brakes this week. I do too. Especially a lot of people that were have gotten a lot planted, have pretty well parked waiting on rainfall.

SPEAKER_01

But uh I would say locally our bean numbers are higher than that.

SPEAKER_03

I've talked to a lot of people that either didn't start beans until this week or or haven't started corn or I'm sorry, didn't start corn until this week or haven't started corn at all, uh, but have planted, you know, several acres of soybeans. Um and several, like you said, that have actually parked the planters and and stopped running. Um we are in our wetter ground, wetter nature ground, and believe it or not, even today I'm actually finding some ground that's a little bit heavy. Um but I would say 95% of the farm is is in perfect shape, and what's heavy was mud last year when it got planted.

SPEAKER_04

I was gonna say not the farms you're talking about, 95% of the farm being in perfect shape is as good as that will probably ever be in your life.

SPEAKER_03

It's as good, yes, absolutely. And and we're on uh you know multiple farms this week planting corn that it is as good a condition as you could ever ask for. Because if you wait until that last 5% is perfect, the hilltops are so hard you can't get to the planter in the ground.

SPEAKER_04

So you say that, yeah. And I've been surprised because most of what I farm is a completely different world from that, and it's 90% is hilltops that get too hard to get the planter in the ground. And where I'm at right now, if you look at like your estimated rainfall totals or whatever on on your phone, then it's showing we got like a quarter inch over the weekend where most everywhere else got like a tenth, and the planter's actually going in the ground really good. And with today's technology where you can monitor down force and you know you can see the hard spots, and yeah, they're hard, and they're it's putting more down force on the planter, but uh the planter's actually going in the ground, and we're planting beans an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half, and there's actually some moisture there. So I was very surprised.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it surprises me too.

SPEAKER_04

But anyway, while we're on the subject of weather, that'd probably be a good segue into our guest that we've got this week.

SPEAKER_01

So Daniel, you want to bring him in.

SPEAKER_02

All right, so we've got a a special guest this week. Uh, we mentioned a Facebook post on last week's show, and it was from uh Central Kentucky Weather's Facebook page talking about uh some uh wet springs and or I'm sorry, dry springs, and followed up by some moderate rainfall, and we talked about it, and I said, well, let's reach out to to them and see if uh if they wouldn't mind to join us on the next week's show. And this week we've got Sean Crow with Central Kentucky Weather. Sean, thank you for joining us uh for our show this week.

SPEAKER_00

Good to be here, guys. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Would you mind to give a little bit of introduction, tell us a little bit about yourself?

SPEAKER_00

Sure. Uh so I was born in Frankfurt, capital city, lived here all my life. My family originally lived in Woodford County. And uh when I was uh around five or six years old, for some reason they packed up and moved to Anderson County, the other side of the Kentucky River, and uh we've lived here ever since. Um I went to college in Bowling Green at Western Kentucky University. So living down there about five years, I guess, but for the most part I've been in Anderson County my whole life. And uh as far as how I got into weather, I'll just go through this very quickly. Uh back in the early eighties. I'm dating myself a little bit here when I was a boy. Uh the old timers and the farmers used to talk about this phenomenon that they called heat lightning. And you know, I heard it all the time, and you guys have probably seen this. You know, if it's a hot, sticky, stagnant summer night, clear as a veil, no wind, but you look off in the distance and you see the lightning flashing, right? I guess the old timers really thought that the heat of the summer night was generating the lightning. And uh so one night I was watching TV, my parents had the news on. There was a weather guy in Lexington by the name of Brad James, and he was on there talking about heat lightning and what it actually is, uh, which of course is that it's just a thunderstorm off in the distance, but I never forgot that. I thought that was really interesting, and so there I was after that, five years old or whatever I was, going around explaining what heat lightning was to the adults, and I'm sure they were like, Yeah, sure, kid, you know. But uh that's just kind of like my first memory of being interested in the weather. So uh long story short, I I started studying it, documenting it, learning what I can about it. Uh ended up going to college at WKU to study meteorology, climatology, and broadcasting. And uh the rest is history. I've just been doing this for gosh, forty years now, I guess, you know.

SPEAKER_04

So were you a TV meteorologist at one time, or how did your career path go there after college?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so uh WKU is a big broadcasting school and I did get into TV weather. Um was gonna try my hand at that and I decided that it just wasn't really for me. We actually won, we had a student newscast there that was the real deal. You know, we recorded live on the air, 6 p.m. to the Bowling Green Market. Uh we did it just like a real newscast. We won first place nationally the year that I was the weather guy there. Uh so it was a pretty cool thing, but I just decided it wasn't really for me. You know, I'm more about the science of it. And you know, the the news directors and station owners are more about the ratings and the performance, you know, and so it just wasn't really for me. So uh ended up moving on to greener pastures, so to speak.

SPEAKER_04

So you talk about that, and uh I know there's been kind of a rise, I guess, in social media meteorology. I don't know if that's a term or not, but we'll just we'll call it that right now. But I think I feel like a lot of that is because the uh the TV media and some of these personalities get so uh dramatized, maybe is not the right term for it, but uh is that kind of a kind of one of your goals with your with the Central Kentucky weather page there is to just give kind of some no-nonsense weather.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's interesting that you say that because when I started this, I did it, I started this about 15 years ago, kind of for that reason, because you know, it's my page, I can do what I want, I can give people the information that I want to give. You know, I don't have to sugarcoat things or or blow things out of proportion or whatever the case might be. I don't care about ratings or any of that. I can just tell it how it is, you know, and so that's how my page started to grow. I got a lot of people sending me messages telling me that they appreciate that, you know. And uh just kind of snowballed from there, and I think now we're up to like thirty-six thousand followers and growing, so uh it really took off. But yeah, that that was a part of it actually.

SPEAKER_03

It's good to have these more local pages, uh, because it seems like when you watch the big stations, you know, in Louisville, Bowling Green, Electric or wherever, um they give such a wide broadcast of when it's gonna rain, how much it's gonna rain, and it and pages like yours kind of can give a a more centralized uh rainfall total or or what the weather might be like uh in a more specific area. They're not trying to cover such a large area. Um and and that's beneficial to to us as farmers because we can kind of make plans, you know, for the week around that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and uh, you know, it does my page is not really an agriculture page, but I do honestly try to focus a lot of the information that I put on there toward the agriculture community because you know I know that you know, like I grew up around it, you know, my grandfather raised tobacco and my dad was into farming some. And even today I have a neighbor that has 70 acres adjacent to me, and she cuts hay off of it and has all kinds of animals and sheep and everything else. And you know, so I've been around it my whole life and I just you know kind of I don't want to say I tailor my weather page to agriculture, but I do spend a lot of time trying to put information on there that I know will be helpful to you guys because it's such a critical part, you know, of agriculture.

SPEAKER_03

So I appreciate it. Yeah, we we joke that of course this is you know the week before derby. Next week is Derby week. Now there won't be a lot of hay cut next week, but historically, over time, there there's a lot of hay cut that first week of May. So we always joke, don't pay attention to Louisville weather forecast the first half of that week because they play down the rain chances, you know, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday on on Sunday, and then you think, oh, well, I'm gonna go out and cut hay and and bail it Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. And then by the middle of the week, they're kind of bumping those chances back up because they don't want to, you know, knock people out of coming to the derby because it's gonna rain.

SPEAKER_00

So exactly. And that goes back to what you guys were talking about a couple minutes ago, you know, uh about how they twist the message to meet certain monetary needs, you know. And yeah, I don't I don't have to do that on my page, I just felt like it is.

SPEAKER_04

So you talked about that uh you like to to cover things that are important to farmers. I know one thing that's been important and kind of an anomaly this spring is how dry we've been in March and April. Uh and like Daniel mentioned there at the start of the of the interview, that's kind of how we were drawn to your page as a post that you put out comparing some of these dry Aprils uh and how the rest of the year turned out. How I guess how rare is uh an April this dry? And because I mean I've been farming say basically 20 years, and I can't ever remember it being this dry in April before. And kind of how does that typically turn out uh for the rest of the year?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so that post you're referring to, I just went through and cherry-picked a few years. There's actually a lot of years that I could have chosen, but I just kind of went through and picked a few. I was looking through my records just a little while ago, and um 2023 actually was just like this. We had dry weather in March and especially April. We only had like two inches of rain for the whole month of April, which is unusual. Uh so it was similar to this, and we'll get to the El Niño stuff in a minute, because that kind of ties in here too. Uh, but I was looking and once we got to June and July that year, we actually had a lot more rainfall. So, and that was just three years ago. Um, I had a meteorology professor who always used to say that people have bad memories. And what he meant by that was it's hard to remember the last time that weather phenomena you know happened, you know. You know, it's like somebody asked me the other day, does it seem abnormally windy this spring? It's like windy every day, you know. We've talked about that all years later. Yeah, but uh the the reality is it's not abnormally windy, it's just it's hard to remember, you know. Um, but yeah, it's uh it's definitely uh something that happens. It's uh not common, but we definitely see dry springs pretty frequently here in Kentucky. And I think it does tie into the El Nino and La Nina cycle. Uh you can actually correlate that. So uh it's pretty interesting stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Well, and we've talked about on here before, and I think uh, you know, was talking with our farmer friends uh just around that a whole lot of what's skewed this year's view of why this seems so dry is because this time last year we were so wet and everything was so we had flooded twice by now, and uh and everything was so wet all spring and it was a struggle to get a crop in and struggle we get any hay cut or anything like that. So I think that kind of that kind of helps wipe your memory as well going back to that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, last April was one of the wettest ever recorded. We had the worst flood on the Kentucky River of my lifetime. I mean, it was just horrible. Yeah. And then here we are this April, and it's completely the opposite, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_03

It seems like that well, I was getting ready to say that. It seems like historically the rainfall doesn't vary that much total for a year. And hopefully we get it when we need it.

SPEAKER_00

That's true. That's true. If you uh go through and like the Lexington reporting station, which is what I use for a lot of my data that I put on my page, there's a hundred and fifty years of weather records in there. If you sort them all by rainfall, it's actually pretty close from year to year. There might be an inch or two difference. maximal, you know, from year to year. So yeah, you're right. It's uh at the end of the year, it kind of all balances out, you know, usually.

SPEAKER_04

So you mentioned El Nino there and that that has a big influence on our weather and uh so it seems like I always thought El Nino meant that we were going to have a wet summer, but then I've seen some of these meteorology pages saying that no, that means it could be drought. It seems like it's contradicting and and you get answers to both sides of those. So I guess first of all just maybe explain exactly what El Nino is and how it affects us and why it affects us.

SPEAKER_00

All right so first thing I'll say real quick there's a lot of AI junk that I'm seeing on the internet here lately. This didn't used to be such an issue but here lately I have seen a ton of fake weather pages and one of them was talking about a super El Nino that's coming and all of this super El Nino and we're not even in El Nino phase at all yet in reality. So you just have to be careful what you what you pay attention to out there. But basically we're talking about the Pacific Ocean the water temperature along the equator out in the Pacific Ocean. If it's abnormally warm that's what we call El Nino if it's abnormally cold that's what we call La Nina and basically it's like a domino effect or in meteorology we call it the butterfly effect you know the fact that one thing if you change one thing over here it's going to change everything else downstream you know so that's why it affects our weather. Uh a condensed version of what's going on if we go to an El Nino which right now we're in a neutral phase we've been in La Nina for the last two years we're going into a neutral phase which is pretty average right now. The expectation is that we're going to go to an El Nino phase this summer. Not a guarantee but most of the long range model data is kind of hinting that we're going to go that way. And so if that happens generally what you'll see is that out in the Pacific you'll have a lot of tendency for low pressure. Say if you looked at a globe you're looking at the area between Hawaii and Alaska you'll have a tendency for a lot of low pressure to set up out there. And so that forces the jet stream a little bit farther south. So the jet stream will flow across like Southern California, Texas, uh into the deep south, you know, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and so the storm track will kind of set up across the southern tier of the country. Now the jet stream doesn't stay in one place all the time. It oscillates a little bit north, a little bit south so at times when it goes north Kentucky will be on the fringe of that and we'll get some you know pretty frequent thunderstorms in those summers. And so you're right El Nino usually results in cooler than average weather and wetter than average weather in the south is normally what we would see. And the interesting thing about it is the uh Climate Prediction Center, the official government agency that puts out these seasonal outlooks, they have had a bullseye right on the Appalachian Mountains, including eastern and central Kentucky uh where they expect abnormally high precipitation this summer because of this. Last month the outlooks were showing that bullseye right on central Kentucky this month they shifted a little bit east but eastern and central Kentucky are still kind of in the mix there. So so even the federal government's expecting abnormally high rainfall here in this area this summer because of the expected El Nino. Now as we get into the later part of summer obviously September's our driest month of the year. Personally that's when I like to see rainfall the most we normally get enough rainfall in the spring to sustain agriculture and that kind of thing. Usually the end of summer is where you really want to see it. And normally El Nino will do that for us. It'll prevent a widespread drought usually so I'm hopeful that this summer we'll be able to uh you know if you just get three or four inches of rain a month, that's really all you need, you know, to be okay. Usually that's what we see. In twenty twenty three, which I was talking about a little while ago was exactly like this. We were in a La Niña during the winter as we got into spring we went neutral and then that summer we went El Nino. So just like what we're expecting this year. And that's what we saw. It was dry in April but by the time you get to June we had I think five or six inches of rain, lots of thunderstorms, lots of severe weather actually and then July was wet. So there's still hope there's still hope that we could have a reversal of this dry pattern.

SPEAKER_04

Well I I like how you're comparing it to 2023 because 2023 was my personal best crop that I've ever raised so I I I like the way that sounds another another interesting tidbit about 2023 is that it's the second warmest year ever recorded in Kentucky or central Kentucky anyway.

SPEAKER_00

And uh I thought that was pretty interesting. We never had any really bad peak temperatures you know lots and lots and lots of days in the 80s that summer which was nice but it was just consistently warm throughout the year.

SPEAKER_04

So interesting uh we talked about you mentioned the warm temperatures there and we talked about uh how abnormally dry it's been this April but it does seem like it's been a little warmer as well are those do the numbers back that up are we trending a little warmer in April than we typically do?

SPEAKER_00

Yes very very warm. In fact I looked this up today just to get some hard numbers on it. March was eight point three degrees above average for temperature which statistically is just nuts. And then April so far has been seven degrees warmer than average. So there's two months back to back where it's just been a blowtorch and kind of unusual actually so far in April we've gotten about thirty percent of our normal rainfall um so you're right it's also very dry.

SPEAKER_04

So I know you said that uh that a lot of farmers look maybe look at your page. Do you tend to get a lot of questions from farmers? Us farmers are can be pretty critical of weather people so hopefully you don't get a whole lot of hate mail or anything but yeah I've learned some things.

SPEAKER_00

For one thing farmers in the wintertime they prefer it to be really really cold. And they say the reason why is because it's easier on the cattle to walk around on frozen ground, you know, versus having a mud pit everywhere, you know?

SPEAKER_05

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

And I had never thought of that before but I can see that. In the summertime hay farmers because you guys know hay farmers like to have a three to four day window where there's no rain, none. Uh 'cause they want to have time to get it cut, let it dry out a little bit, tether it if they're going to, and then fail it. Um and around here in this part of the state where I live usually the end of May is when they want to do their first cutting. I guess it depends on which part of the state you're in, but usually Memorial Day weekend, sometime around that time frame is when they do the first cutting up here. And May is the statistically wettest month of the year. So it doesn't really work out too well, you know, but they're always wanting to know when are we going to have three or four dry days and I can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but we had a particularly wet May and I told some of them I was like why don't you guys hold off to the first of June? I know it's you know another week or two. It won't hurt you though wait till the first of June I think this weather pattern's gonna turn around and it was kind of a long shot and uh I got lucky I guess because it turned around in June. It got really dry and cool. We had some northwesterly flow so it cooled it down like in the 70s in June dry weather it was perfect for cutting hay you know and uh so I don't know if that made me a superstar or not but uh a lot of them were appreciative of it.

SPEAKER_02

Well another thing with farmers if you could get if you just get like one or two of those and you just get them right on the money they'll just believe anything you say from here on out and they'll tell everybody. They'll tell everybody well it was he was right on it.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah yeah it's good stuff but uh but yeah like I said my neighbor she cuts hay she's got 70 acres over there and so uh I'm learning a lot about how you guys do that and what you're looking for you know and what you're not looking for so it's kind of helpful to kind of be exposed to it too you know talking about that you mentioned that three to four day window that we usually need to get our hay up uh kind of along those same lines how far out do you typically feel confident in a forecast? Do you typically feel confident enough to say if you cut today that fourth day is going to be dry or or can it is there a high proper bit probability it's going to change within those three or four days or are we pretty well dialed in at that point?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah I feel like the um the computer modeling now in 2026 has gotten good enough that within five days, you know if you know what you're doing you can make a really good forecast. My personal rule is 200 hours you know some of the weather models will go out 300 350 maybe 400 hours but my personal rule is I don't really trust them past 200 hours. You know anything within 200 hours you know gives you a pretty good idea of what you're looking at. If nothing else you can look at pattern recognition you know for example next week the jet stream's coming back out of the southwest again. We haven't seen that for a while and that's the reason why we're going to have better chances for rain and storms this weekend and next week than what we've been seeing. But if you can pick that out ahead of time that gives you a clue you know what kind of weather to expect and if you see something like what we're gonna have next week then you'll tell the guys hey you know we're not gonna have a drop four days in a row next week that's for sure. But yeah that's kind of my rule of thumb I like to stay within that 200 hour window. So yeah five days you're golden I think if you know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_02

Well since we you mentioned that is uh so is it looking like we're gonna have an active weather week next week I I think I've seen a few things here and there people talking about maybe potential of a of some storms and uh some rainfall but are you seeing that kind of here in the nearer term?

SPEAKER_00

Yep. Yeah it does look like uh Friday night we've got a system coming through that one doesn't have as much uh in the way of dynamics with it so I don't know if we'll see severe weather with those storms or not but the one coming Monday that one looks pretty interesting because it's got a lot more with it you know the dynamics are a little more impressive uh particularly the instability so uh Monday I've been I've been highlighting this on my my page you know that that's a day we're gonna have to keep a close eye on and you know May as a whole is a month where we have the bulk of our severe weather believe it or not a lot of people think about March and April and we certainly do have storms in those months but May has produced more severe weather watches and warnings historically than any other month other month around here. So it's about that time of the year for things to you know turn uh the other direction and uh we'll have some severe weather in here probably starting Monday and that might be a change you know that takes us through the month. Yeah I know speaking of severe weather, you know one of the things that farmers can't stand is hail storms. I remember I don't know exactly what year it was, but maybe 1983 or so my grandfather was raising a tobacco crop and we had a horrible hailstorm and it just beat it all to pieces and uh it actually hurt him so bad that not long after that he got out of it. So uh yeah severe weather's a bad word for you guys for other reasons, you know sometimes we have those micro bursts that just delay crops over. Yeah we see that a lot.

SPEAKER_03

But a lot of that in was it twenty was it twenty twenty four when the hurricane came through and it seemed that a lot of crop go down that year at harvest time is that come through in I guess the first part of September and and I would call it microburst type thing because the the crop was just laid every which way it wasn't any rhyme or reason to it.

SPEAKER_00

So that's that's bad news it could just I mean you can talk about like acres of land can just be flattened out. You know and it's I see that a lot down in western Kentucky. I think it's because the terrain is flatter down there maybe than it is up here. But it seems like that happens quite a bit down there.

SPEAKER_04

All right well I think that pretty well wraps up our time here but thanks Sean for coming on again. Uh again everybody check out his page Central Kentucky weather that's what they're looking for right on Facebook.

SPEAKER_00

That's right. Yeah the profile picture is a big thunderstorm cloud so you can't miss it. But yeah I appreciate you guys having me on like I was saying and uh you know there's going to be a lot of good information put on there for you guys this summer so thanks.

SPEAKER_04

We'll be sure and follow along everybody else do the same so thanks again Sean appreciate it guys take care all right well thanks again to Mr Sean Crow with Central Kentucky Weather be sure and go out out and check out his Facebook page follow along click like and follow and all the good stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Yep we'll put his uh if you're listening to the podcast we'll have his link there in the podcast description and then we'll also have it on our Facebook page so check us if you're not following us on Facebook you should too but we'll link uh Central Kentucky weather on there the tweet follow him follow us just follow anybody that's right he told us that uh his numbers typically don't his follower numbers don't go up after a thunderstorm or before a severe weather but when you talk about snow his numbers really go up. But what he's gonna find out is that when he talks dirt to dollars.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. So let's make it well when it snows or I was on dirt to dollars my follower numbers went up so let's make that happen.

SPEAKER_02

Do your thing people so Mark how how are your uh how how's your how's your leg feeling there buddy actually that you you you talked about that a lot but it really didn't hurt she's not really big enough to to make an impact and it was a plastic bat so I was actually talking it didn't look like you got hit in the leg it looked like you got hit in somewhere somewhere else I've been on the ground no doubt but uh yeah so uh I was more referring to you trying to slide into second base so oh yeah that too that was um yeah so that actually hurt my shoulder more than it hurt my leg uh gotta like it hurt let me set the stage we're playing backyard with a ball and I I had the ball and Mark was running for second and I saw the fear in his eyes because I was coming and I wasn't letting loose like I was you know I was laying back for the kids and letting them get to base but I was not letting Mark get to base and as soon as we locked eyes he just dropped and he just did and I was not expecting to slide at all he was safe he got it but I can't even while y'all were amazed at my sliding abilities I stole third I'm pretty we got together Sunday night for Daniel's birthday and um happy birthday by the way Daniel how did we not leave with that I see how important I am man we could have I could have had the birthday music queued up and everything.

SPEAKER_04

I don't think I can play happy birthday to you on the bell but no we won't try. You need multiple bells I'm 41 41 I thought you'd already crossed the Yeah I crossed that line last year.

SPEAKER_03

If you'd listened to Abe you'd know that because Kel said it he said 41? He didn't uh so but okay back to your story yeah so we got back we were playing backyard baseball and um bunch of 40 year olds playing baseball trying to hurt themselves yes well a bunch of 40 year olds but we were putting their kids yeah yeah and John and John um so uh our middle child is two almost three and uh was picking up the bat wanting to wanting to hit it wanting to try and play and so we kind of set her up on a T and I was like I was standing right behind her and I said all right I said I'm gonna set this up I said you hit so well she rode back before I got out of the way and she swung and she hit the ball well then she swung all the way around and hit me right off the inside of my leg.

SPEAKER_02

And it would be Daniel's night because he was like I'm I knew that was coming I seen it coming and I knew I was I almost got my phone out and recorded it.

SPEAKER_04

That was like uh America's funniest own videos it would have been there it would have been there.

SPEAKER_03

It would it would have been yes it would have been and I made that comment too later I said the next time we do this we need to set up a GoPro or something to to record because there were a lot of moments that um would have would have been America's funniest home videos without a doubt but uh or it it could have been the video to go viral and make Mark famous instead of just somewhat famous. Very well could have been it would have made Thomas Farms 12 some money.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah it probably would have yeah have you figured out who that dude is yet I'm saying you're just not you so don't act like it's me I don't even know how to do the whole screen record thing. And I don't even have TikTok to get on there and steal your videos.

SPEAKER_03

So no I I have not figured out uh who it is yet I've I've submitted a uh copyright infringement report for the third time on Facebook uh each time they'll take down a few of the videos but they won't take down the account. Um so last time I did it it slowed him down for a little bit and then he came back with a vengeance posted five and six a day.

SPEAKER_02

So if you're somebody that's listening and you have a particular set of skills around Facebook profiles and how to get it somebody send us a private message on Facebook. The address we might be interested in talking to you.

SPEAKER_04

The address is um Philadelphia Pennsylvania I was gonna say it's probably some 5406 Chester Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania well how you got the address you just put the address on the right yellow and some super have you like put that into Google or anything to see what it you know actually I have to what is what's the address again?

SPEAKER_02

540 Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania so it just it 5406 just you know if you you go there there's gonna be a room just full of computers and cell phones and just a chair and everybody's yeah that's I'm sure it is a it's a great volume it's a grocery store isn't it that's what that's what they want you to think it is right in it is right in downtown Philadelphia isn't it like bars up in the front of the door I think we need to just have a dirty dollars trip and just go knock on the door and just see what happens.

SPEAKER_03

Interesting.

SPEAKER_04

They're open 24 hours a day seven days a week there you go because the sun never goes down on stealing Mark Thomas's TikTok content the work is never done is never done that's interesting well I think we've proven it's not me so I am not moonlighting in a grocery store in Philadelphia that's what you might want us to think.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah that's a good uh sidetrack there well done well done but it is temporarily closed I saw that that's because I guess it's closed because they're in their data centers and content uh stealing so I'll I'll actually have to pay attention to that and see if like other pages that get stolen. Like Tony Reed gets them stolen all the time. I wonder if they post that same is it the same address I wonder if they post the same address.

SPEAKER_02

Well I'd say it's very unlikely that the people actually still are going to be there.

SPEAKER_04

But oh yeah I'm sure they're not they just heard that probably AI yeah does that just about wrap us up for the week I think so I think we need to recognize our sponsor one more time since he paid so much more than his father

SPEAKER_02

Yep, thanks to Cyrus Bivens for sponsoring again this week and buying his uh so he not only did he sponsor the show, but he he helped sponsor uh Central Harden FFA. So appreciate everybody that bid on those items and especially to Cyrus for winning winning the bid. And he even got two more dings.

SPEAKER_04

Was that one okay?

SPEAKER_03

Yep. That's good. I'll accept it. You'll allow it. I'll allow it.

SPEAKER_04

There you go. All right. Catch us next week for more.

SPEAKER_02

Yep. Thank y'all for listening to Dirt to Dollars. See you next week.