06/18/2026
HomeGrown Weather: You Can’t Get Fooled Again Edition
There’s an old saying in high-ceiling severe weather setups in Ohio.
I’m sure they say it in other places too, but here in Ohio we say:
“Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me… you can’t get fooled again.”
Well friends…
I did, in fact, get fooled again.
Yesterday had all the ingredients that make weather nerds start pacing around the room like they just drank six gas station coffees.
Plenty of heat. Strong winds upstairs. A beautiful backside.
The kind of weather models you view in private.
But Ohio did Ohio things.
A boundary set up farther south. Clouds and leftover junk from earlier storms kept parts of our area from fully cooking. The better instability got shoved south, and the atmosphere basically looked at the HomeGrown area and said, “Not today, little buddy.”
So instead of the big severe weather show setting up over us, the main threat got pushed south where the air had a better chance to recover and storms had more fuel to work with.
That’s the hard part with these high-ceiling setups.
The ceiling can be high, but if one ingredient gets out of place, the whole casserole goes in a different oven. Someone else's oven.
For us, that meant the worst of it stayed away.
I'm ok with being wrong in that direction.
No busted houses.
No surprise Sky Noodles.
No “why is my trampoline in Lake Erie” reports.
No Level 5 Grab The Cats And Go To The Basement Advisory.
Just Ohio weather reminding us that forecasting severe storms is less like reading a book and more like trying to assemble IKEA furniture during an earthquake. (those will probably be next)
So yes, I got fooled again.
But the good news is, the HomeGrown area came out better than it could have, and that’s always the win.
I'll take it, learn from it, and remain emotionally suspicious of the sky as we Ohioans do.
