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Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:09 am
by Lani
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:57 pm
by AndyinPA
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:15 am
by AndyinPA
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 4:33 pm
by MN-Skeptic
This is cool. Watch to the end.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:33 pm
by AndyinPA
Cool!
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:09 pm
by RTH10260
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:45 pm
by AndyinPA
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!
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:16 pm
by RTH10260
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:47 pm
by MN-Skeptic
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:52 pm
by jez
If anyone hears from BB, please let us know.
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Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:20 pm
by Estiveo
Yikes!
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 11:34 pm
by RTH10260
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:16 am
by AndyinPA
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:47 am
by sugar magnolia
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:52 am
by sugar magnolia
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:01 am
by jez
Just saw her post on facebook. I had forgotten she had moved from the loft. I'm glad she is okay.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:41 am
by Estiveo
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Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:29 am
by Volkonski
Just catching up on this.
Best wishes for the New Orleans area!
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Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:04 pm
by Phoenix520
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:53 pm
by Volkonski
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:56 pm
by sugar magnolia
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
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:46 pm
by Slim Cognito
Just get your sharpie out. (seriously, tho, take care.)
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Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:30 am
by John Thomas8
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
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:29 am
by AndyinPA
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.
Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:45 pm
by sugar magnolia
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.