Weather Alerts
Re: Weather Alerts
I've been reading about the horrible flooding. I taught at Southern Cross University in Lismore and lived on the coast not far from Mullumbimby.
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
Re: Weather Alerts
It looks like we are in for a March snowstorm over the weekend. Maybe about 3-6 inches, but the 6 inches should be in the mountains. Monday it will be 55 degrees, and the snow will soon be a memory. :thumbs-up:
Short term, though, it sounds like it could be a mess.
Short term, though, it sounds like it could be a mess.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
Re: Weather Alerts
The storm delivered. Here, we got closer to the six inches.* I looked out before I went to bed last night and what had been just wet a little while before had at least half an inch. It was coming down quickly and hard. It's a winter wonderland out there right now. I think it's about over here, moving towards Hagerstown, Maryland.
Today is the day of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh It's one of the biggest in the country, usually draws about 350,000 people downtown. The snow and below-freezing temperatures will not put a dent in that number. They held the parade in '93 when we had two feet of snow the day before, one of our largest snowfalls ever.
The good thing: in a few days, it will be a distant memory. We will have flood warnings back again, though.
*Edited to add: We got eight inches, which I think is the largest snowfall all winter.
Today is the day of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh It's one of the biggest in the country, usually draws about 350,000 people downtown. The snow and below-freezing temperatures will not put a dent in that number. They held the parade in '93 when we had two feet of snow the day before, one of our largest snowfalls ever.
The good thing: in a few days, it will be a distant memory. We will have flood warnings back again, though.
*Edited to add: We got eight inches, which I think is the largest snowfall all winter.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
- MN-Skeptic
- Posts: 3933
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:03 pm
- Location: Twin Cities
Re: Weather Alerts
This is cool. Watch to the end.
Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
Re: Weather Alerts
Cool!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
Re: Weather Alerts
Whoa! I wasn't aware of that. Not quite so cool!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
- RTH10260
- Posts: 17170
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
- Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
- Verified: ✔️ Eurobot
Re: Weather Alerts
*Can* lead to suffocation - the remedy when caught near the path of a dust avalanche is to pull the jacket over ones head and breath filtered air from within.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:45 pmWhoa! I wasn't aware of that. Not quite so cool!
- MN-Skeptic
- Posts: 3933
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:03 pm
- Location: Twin Cities
- jez
- Posts: 516
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:20 am
- Location: Midwestish
- Occupation: Thread Killer
- Verified: ✅ Medicated
Re: Weather Alerts
If anyone hears from BB, please let us know.
“What is better ? to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort ?”
~Paarthurnax
~Paarthurnax
- RTH10260
- Posts: 17170
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
- Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
- Verified: ✔️ Eurobot
Re: Weather Alerts
more below
► Show Spoiler
► Show Spoiler
Re: Weather Alerts
I've never seen a tornado, but I'm guessing that standing at a window or outside taking that video wasn't very smart.
When we lived in Michigan, a huge tornado hit Pontiac. We lived in Warren, so not real close, but I will never forget the color of the sky during it. I've never seen a sky like it since.
When we lived in Michigan, a huge tornado hit Pontiac. We lived in Warren, so not real close, but I will never forget the color of the sky during it. I've never seen a sky like it since.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
- sugar magnolia
- Posts: 3898
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:54 pm
Re: Weather Alerts
She's on the North Shore and the closest any of the four came to her was Bayou Lacombe I think. Maybe 5-10 miles from her.
The tornado hit the same area that got slammed so hard by Katrina and there are hundreds of people still in questionable housing in the Lower Ninth and Arabi area.
- sugar magnolia
- Posts: 3898
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:54 pm
Re: Weather Alerts
The air turns greenish and then orange. Very weird, but the sound is even worse. We lost a 60' tree in the backyard that fell towards the house (no damage to the house, but the top of the tree spanned the entire width of the back of our house) and we never knew it was down until we saw it had completely covered the french doors and windows in the back. The wind and whining was louder than the big ass tree falling.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:16 am I've never seen a tornado, but I'm guessing that standing at a window or outside taking that video wasn't very smart.
When we lived in Michigan, a huge tornado hit Pontiac. We lived in Warren, so not real close, but I will never forget the color of the sky during it. I've never seen a sky like it since.
- jez
- Posts: 516
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:20 am
- Location: Midwestish
- Occupation: Thread Killer
- Verified: ✅ Medicated
Re: Weather Alerts
Just saw her post on facebook. I had forgotten she had moved from the loft. I'm glad she is okay.
“What is better ? to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort ?”
~Paarthurnax
~Paarthurnax
- Volkonski
- Posts: 12457
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am
- Location: Texoma and North Fork of Long Island
- Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
- Verified: ✅
Re: Weather Alerts
Just catching up on this.
Best wishes for the New Orleans area!
Best wishes for the New Orleans area!
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Phoenix520
- Posts: 4151
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:20 pm
- Verified: ✅
Re: Weather Alerts
The one tornado I’ve been through, the air turned yellow and then all the birds stopped chirping and there was dead silence, like a vacuum. It blew down the main drag less than 1/2 mile from us but we had no damage.The air turns greenish and then orange. Very weird, but the sound is even worse.
All the sound came back at once after it passed us. It was the weirdest damn thing.
- Volkonski
- Posts: 12457
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am
- Location: Texoma and North Fork of Long Island
- Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
- Verified: ✅
Re: Weather Alerts
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- sugar magnolia
- Posts: 3898
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:54 pm
Re: Weather Alerts
We're dead-center in the purple. 11 tornadoes touched down last week when the last round of weather came through
eta: Just saw an update from the NWS and there were 27 tornadoes on the 22nd, not 11
eta: Just saw an update from the NWS and there were 27 tornadoes on the 22nd, not 11
- Slim Cognito
- Posts: 7443
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:15 am
- Location: The eff away from trump.
- Occupation: Hats. I do hats.
- Verified: ✅
Re: Weather Alerts
Just get your sharpie out. (seriously, tho, take care.)
May the bridges I burn light my way.
x5
x5
- John Thomas8
- Posts: 6268
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:42 pm
- Location: Central NC
- Occupation: Tech Support
Re: Weather Alerts
Ugh, central North Carolina has gone sub-30 degrees over night 3 of the past 4 days. In April. This hasn't happened since we've been here, summer of 1992.
Re: Weather Alerts
Really weird weather today. It went down to somewhere around freezing this morning. We didn't get the snow they were calling for, although farther north they did, but we had a really hard rain. This afternoon, it's going to hit 70 degrees. Another 70-degree day tomorrow, then heading down again with snow again tomorrow night. So I guess March did come in like a lamb and is going out like a lion. We also had more than 17 inches of snow in March, which I don't mind. Here today, gone tomorrow.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
- sugar magnolia
- Posts: 3898
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:54 pm
Re: Weather Alerts
CD sirens just activated and MEMA is transmitting on the police dispatch primary channel. 2 tornadoes just coming into the south city limits.
eta: before I could finish typing that, confirmed funnel cloud on the interstate heading our way. Maybe 5 miles from here. Second forming now.
eta: before I could finish typing that, confirmed funnel cloud on the interstate heading our way. Maybe 5 miles from here. Second forming now.