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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.

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.

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.

This is cool. Watch to the end.

Cool!

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:33 pmCool!

Cool but also deadly dangerous. While a normal or wet snow avalanche crushes bones and presses a person under its weight the dusty snow particles lead to suffocation even further off from the main path of the falling snow.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:09 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:33 pmCool!

Cool but also deadly dangerous. While a normal or wet snow avalanche crushes bones and presses a person under its weight the dusty snow particles lead to suffocation even further off from the main path of the falling snow.

Whoa! I wasn't aware of that. Not quite so cool!

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:45 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:09 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:33 pmCool!

Cool but also deadly dangerous. While a normal or wet snow avalanche crushes bones and presses a person under its weight the dusty snow particles lead to suffocation even further off from the main path of the falling snow.

Whoa! I wasn't aware of that. Not quite so cool!

*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.

If anyone hears from BB, please let us know.

Yikes!

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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 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:52 pm If anyone hears from BB, please let us know.

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.

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.

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.

Just saw her post on facebook. I had forgotten she had moved from the loft. I'm glad she is okay.

Just catching up on this.

Best wishes for the New Orleans area!

The air turns greenish and then orange. Very weird, but the sound is even worse.

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.

All the sound came back at once after it passed us. It was the weirdest damn thing.

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

Just get your sharpie out. (seriously, tho, take care.)

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.

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.

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.