Weather Alerts

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

Here on the North Fork Sunday will only get to 90.

[pipistrelle]

In the last 3 minutes, weather radio has flipped from thunderstorm warning > watch > warning.

Edit: >watch

[northland10]

I did not sleep well last night with being awaken by thunder, lightning, and severe storm/flash flood alerts all night long and still going.

[Phoenix520]

We’re on our 5th straight week of 90+ temps. I rarely go outside after 9am.

[Foggy]

This morning ol' Wifehorn and I were walking along the mighty Neuse River and we saw a guy coming up the riverbank.

I had to tell him we have that spot reserved in case it goes up to 110° around here, that's where we plan to sit in the river all day.

[MN-Skeptic]

Hokey moley!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Wowza!

[Shizzle Popped]

My dad lives in a little town east of St. Louis and this morning he said many streets in town were flooded and closed as are a couple of roads going out of town. The entire area is low and flat with a large creek west of town that quickly turns into swampland after a heavy rain. It may take a day or two for all this water to find its way out.

[Jim]

CLIMATEWIRE | The world's first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and earning the most severe tier in the city's new heat wave ranking system.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... heat-wave/

LA has smog alerts...Seville has...

[MN-Skeptic]

[Maybenaut]

From The Washington Post

Four critically injured after lightning strike near the White House

Two men and two women were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Thursday evening after an apparent lightning strike in Lafayette Square, just north of the White House, according to D.C. fire officials.

The four adults were found just before 7 p.m. in the center of the park, in a grove of trees about 100 feet southeast of the statue of Andrew Jackson, fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo said at a news briefing Thursday night. The U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Park Police rendered aid to the victims, which fire officials credited to the ability of the victims to initially survive.

It was not immediately clear why the victims were in the park at the time of the strike, Maggiolo said. Fire officials said Park Police would be investigating the incident.

“Trees are not safe places,” Maggiolo said. “Anybody that goes to seek shelter under a tree, that’s a very dangerous place to be.”

All four people were taken to a hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries.

The precise cause of their injuries remains under investigation, authorities said.

A witness to the lightning strike described it as “massive. It shook the whole area. Literally like a bomb went off, that’s how it sounded.”

The lightning was unleashed by a severe thunderstorm that swept across the District just before 7 p.m. The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for much of the Beltway area between 6:30 and 7:15 p.m., cautioning of the threat of damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and quarter-size hail.

Chris Vagasky, an analyst for Vaisala, which operates a national lightning network, said in a message that there was a “6 stroke flash near the White House that hit the same point on the ground” at 6:49 p.m. He explained that means six individual surges of electricity hit the same point on the ground within half a second.

Numerous storms, containing frequent lightning, flared up in the region Thursday evening after temperatures soared into the mid-to-upper 90s earlier in the day, prompting a heat advisory. Heat indexes, a measure of how hot it feels factoring in humidity, reached 100 to 110 degrees.

The heat-fueled storms unleashed a wind gust to 58 mph at Reagan National Airport and toppled trees around Winchester, Columbia and Baltimore. The torrents also spurred multiple reports of flooded roads around Baltimore.

Widespread power outages were reported, with Gov. Larry Hogan (R) of Maryland on Twitter reporting more than 50,000 as of late Thursday.

Lightning kills 23 people in the United States in an average year and has resulted in nine fatalities so far in 2022.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... -injuries/

[Volkonski]

[pipistrelle]

At least two of the four, a couple from Wisconsin, have since died from the lightning strike.

[Foggy]

[Azastan]

At least two of the four, a couple from Wisconsin, have since died from the lightning strike.

Three people, including a Wisconsin couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary, have died after a lightning strike Thursday evening in Lafayette Square, just north of the White House, D.C. police said Friday.

The other person killed was a 29-year-old man, police said in announcing his death Friday afternoon. His identity was withheld pending notification of relatives.

[RTH10260]

Zeus had bad timing - only two years late - there was a guy with a bible held wrongly ...

[pipistrelle]

Zeus had bad timing - only two years late - there was a guy with a bible held wrongly ...

Well, we've been saying Bin (the god of 1776) misdirected by a mile or whatever.

Seriously there were apparently 6 strokes that hit the same spot. When a friend and I were hiking on a sunny day and I heard thunder, I hightailed it to the car in record time (for me). He couldn't understand the urgency but I didn't want to be anywhere in the woods with lightning in the area. It fizzled out but it was threatening for 20 minutes or so. Then went back to sunny. Weather is weird.

[Volkonski]

[Foggy]

So you're saying Herschel is wrong and it's African air, not Chinese air, that's messin' with us.

Good to know.

[Phoenix520]

We have over a week of 95°+ temps coming up. It’s noon:20 now, 99°. I’m not going out until 10pm, when it will have cooled down to 81, a barely-safe temp to walk the smoosh faced dog. (Much above 83 they’re at risk of heat related ailments.)

[Volkonski]

[AndyinPA]

From the end of an article in WaPo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... explainer/

No weather is caused by climate change. Weather will always be weather. But the signature of a warming world is now perceptible every day in the conditions we regularly face.

For many people, the concept of a changing climate might seem distant and removed — a two-millimeter rise in sea levels a year or a subtle uptick in global temperatures may appear inconsequential. But human influence is affecting the dynamics of weather systems, the periodicity of the jet stream and the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere.

As is becoming evident in the Lower 48 and across the world, 1,000-year floods may happen a lot more than once every 1,000 years. “Unprecedented” may, in fact, become precedented. And the uptick in extremes and changing conditions means our environment is evolving faster than our infrastructure. That’s the crux of the problem.

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]