Your current weather?

[danscope]

Sunshine with puffy clouds, birds in the trees, 80 ° F with a light breeze . A far cry from the poor southern towns who got
just pasted with the tornadoes these past days. We pray for their recovery and future.

Dan

[ngc3314]

Sunshine with puffy clouds, birds in the trees, 80 ° F with a light breeze . A far cry from the poor southern towns who got
just pasted with the tornadoes these past days. We pray for their recovery and future.



Yeah. Wow. The path was within a half mile of us - for those who saw President Obama in front of a devastated sea of debris, thats a mile from my house along my (normal) commute. Many still missing, infrastructure badly damaged (the local emergency stockpiles were even hit). Big cleanup and rebuilding ahead. Enormous outpouring of volunteers and supplies.

[danscope]

Glad you were spared. Those were terrible , and very wide tornadoes. We'd had one like that which hit Worcester, Massachusetts back in 1953 which was staggering. It wiped out a famous amusment park ( great carousel , roller coaster etc) which never came back. We very seldom see these storms. We do get hurricanes from time to time. These are not good at all.
What you had to live through is beyond belief. With our hopes, may you press on .
Best regards,
Dan

[HenrikOlsen]

Sunny, as it's been for a while.

This April's ending up with two temperature records for Denmark, highest monthly average ever recorded for April (9.8°C vs. the previous record 9.4°C in 2009) and highest lowest temperature of the month ever recorded (temps never got below -1.6°C vs. the previous record of -1,8°C in 1920).

Updated with the final numbers:
9.8°C average temp for April which is 4,1°C above climate norm and highest recorded.
~250 sun hours (198 sun hours is the norm for April) means it's in top-5 of recorded Aprils, 16-17mm rain total put s it in top-15 for dry Aprils.
And the temps never got below -1.6°C, which is 0.2°C warmer than the previously highest lowest temp for April.

[publiusr]

Glad you were spared. Those were terrible , and very wide tornadoes. We'd had one like that which hit Worcester, Massachusetts back in 1953 which was staggering.

Timeline of tragedy: http://convectiveaddiction.com/2011/04/29/april-27th-historic-tornado-outbreak-timeline
Record number of twisters http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47536

353 dead across region
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/14546057/severe-storms-are

Pictures of the event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47373 http://www.flickr.com/photos/abc3340weather/5694031307/
http://www.rhondapyatt.com/Weather/Tornado/Tornado-Tuscaloosa-Pleasant/16873905_8fjcrP#1275010849_RdNgtTs

More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25%E2%80%9328,_2011_tornado_outbreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/storm-warning-expert-power-outages-a-principle-cause-of-high-alabama-tornado-death-toll/2011/05/05/AFWS8QzF_blog.html
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/april_2011_tornado_information.html
http://www.johnefarley.com/tornadotracks04-2011.htm
http://tornadocentral.com/now/04272011_tornado_outbreak_2138utc_srv05_bmx_2panel .png
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/april-severe-scorecard_2011-04-18
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/115065-Satellite-Captures-3-D-View-of-Violent-Storms-that-Ravaged-the-US-on-April-27-28
http://www.tornadovideos.net/component/content/article/36-tornadoes/1356-unbelievable-tornado-outbreak-overwhelms-southern-us
http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2011/05/05/air-force-dmsp-weather-satellite-shows-the-darkness-after-the-storms/

Fly-overs
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47402
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47225


Radar Data of the storm http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47452
Paths http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47190

http://www.cbs42.com/news/state/story/Scientists-investigate-twisters-like-detectives/xWsoY1QVK0qW_lCrAo1t2g.cspx
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/

Predicted well in advance too http://www.tornadovideos.net/component/content/article/36-tornadoes/1355-major-tornado-outbreak-expected-today http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=46515 http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=46181

We safely shut down nuclear power assets: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110428/us_nm/us_utilities_operations_tva_browns

Early on, Mississippi suffered: http://severestudios.com/ http://www.tornadovideos.net/
http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/see-and-hear-deadly-alabama-tornado-20461#20456

This latest event ranked up there with 1974's Super-Outbreak, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Outbreak
This town, like Guin before it, might have had the largest percentage of damage if not the most in total--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackleburg,_Alabama
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47234
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47297


The maxi-twister resembled the Andover event most closely, mixed in with a little Red Rock what with some of the horizontal vortices:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27601-Tornadoes-with-Tentacle-Like-External-Vortices!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110428/sc_livescience/raresidewaystornadocapturedonvideo
Tuscaloosa http://vimeo.com/22970879 http://www.alabamawx.com/?paged=11
Andover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmKvxIEY20&feature=related
Red Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUJJH_MSZI

As usual, folks are grasping for a religious explanation. "Rick and Bubba" were on an ABC 33/40 talking about how Government wasn't needed, this was just people coming together--as if it weren't the same thing. I don't need to remind folks that many want to balance the Budget by cutting National Weather Service, and then too, there is Santorum's old Accuweather bill I mentioned earlier: http://www.slate.com/id/2123557/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-relief-gop-budget-cuts_n_834479.html
http://www.good.is/post/republicans-want-to-cut-tsunami-warning-spending/

Some of the same communities affected by the 1998 Oak Grove Tornado were hit again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1998_Birmingham_tornado
http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/birmdam2.htm
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr116/qr116.html
http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/pastts98.htm#top
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/archives/stnov00.htm
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/damage/goshen2.htm


Concord was hit in 1998--here is how it looks today
http://videos.al.com/birmingham-news/2011/04/concord_tornado_damage_wednesd.html

Blountsville http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47198

The Tuscaloosa Twister was caught forming. It actually seemed to get wider and became more like Wichita Falls as it was leaving Downtown Tuscaloosa proper: http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-dallas/wichita-falls-giant-tornado-april-10-1979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Falls_Tornado

Satellite Photos
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/04/alabama_tornadoes_close-up_sat.html
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47156
Fly-over http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47402
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/data/Tuscaloosa-27Apr2011-ground-versus-NOAA.png


Some maintain the Tuscaloosa event was the best documented:
http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2011/04/alabama_tornadoes_was_the_tusc.html http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47203
However, good GIS mapping material in terms of aerial photography were had only a few days before the Oak Grove event, and done right after, before much clean-up had begun. And the VORTEX team might also disagree, of course.

Tuscaloosa video----------------------- http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47383
http://www.alabamawx.com/?paged=2 http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47075
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47192
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47089
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/2011/apr/28/another-view-tuscaloosa-tornado-ar-1772453/
http://www.cbs42.com/content/special/story/In-twisters-path-a-struggle-for-survival/I30rI84UVU-I4_yCktA3ow.cspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgSaq2nRiU&feature=related

This particular video is the most soul-raking
http://www.cbs42.com/mostpopular/story/Tuscaloosa-tornado-caught-on-tape-wreaking-havoc/hsK7dFmlUku5YlvteTFy6A.cspx

WVUA--Tuscaloosa's own station, was knocked off air after this: http://www.wvua7.com/news
http://sky7weather.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/tornado-video-from-tuscaloosa-updated-friday-at-2pm/


Here is a more general sky tour of the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham event
http://videos.al.com/birmingham-news/2011/04/alabama_tornadoes_aerial_tour.html
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/04/alabama_tornadoes_interactive.html
http://photos.al.com/4461/gallery/alabama_tornadoes_aerial_pictures_of_a_ravaged_sta te/index.html
http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/see-and-hear-deadly-alabama-tornado-20461

Fultondale
http://www.cbs42.com/content/special/story/VIDEO-Aerial-view-of-Fultondale/x13OBuspCESWZ76RtkSZhA.cspx
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47225
Other http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47103


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As the storm went over northern Birmingham, it may have been cycling:

It came in strong: http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47393
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/2011/apr/27/confirmed-tornadoes-impact-metro-birmingham-ar-1771560/
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=46789
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=46771
http://codeword.org/tag/cullman-tornado/ http://www.alabamawx.com/?paged=10
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47174

Then...
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/2011/apr/28/tornado-rolls-jefferson-county-ar-1772424/

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Birmingham+tornado&qpvt=Birmingham+tornado&FORM=VDRE#
Here, as this map suggests, the discreet Tuscaloosa event stopped even as a later event formed
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/graphicast.php?site=bmx&gc=4
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/fxc/bmx/graphicast/image_full4.gif

I live near this area, and got only a few seconds of a green, confused sky on my old camcorder. Many digitals have halos and artifacts after all. I will try to get that in another format if I can. Discussion here on how my community had a close call: http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47214

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Decatur, Huntsville damaged
http://mywaay.waaytv.com/MediaItemView.aspx?id=404477
http://www.stationindex.com/tv/markets/Huntsville-Decatur

Cullman was also struck
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=46559
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/14527497/tornado-touches-down-in-cullman
http://www.cbs42.com/news/state/story/Alabama-hospital-damaged-by-suspected-tornado/cHHpsDfubEqtB8aAoK8jOg.cspx
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/2011/apr/27/tornado-touches-down-cullman-alabama-ar-1771064/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/amazing-video-captures-double-tornado-in-alabama/
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/cullman-alabama-destroyed-tornado-13494740
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/cullman-alabama-tornado-hits-hospital-pics-video-2781712.html
http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/04/reports_that_center_of_cullman.html
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/14527497/tornado-touches-down-in-cullman
http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/alabama/tornado-reports-in-cullman-co-ala

http://www.wkrg.com

Some chasers may have been killed, and there are reports that a NOAA weather radio broadcast station was knocked out.
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47293 Weather Transmitter destroyed
Early that morning, a squall line moved through doing general damage--a derecho.

Storm damage assessment
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_04272011_surveystatus
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=BMX&product=PNS&issuedby=BMX
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_currentlsrs

The local National Weather Service crew at Alabaster had to evacuate and hand off to Atlanta with a later storm
http://www.facebook.com/US.NationalWeatherService.Birmingham.gov?sk=wall
It isn't the first time they had a close call http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=27861feed

More:
http://www.stormtrack.org/
http://www2.alabamas13.com/blogs/Alabamas13-Weather-Blog/P1/

You have to register to get this
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27566-4-27-11-DISC-AL-TN-MS-KY-OH-IN-WV-GA&

Some have alleged that the Alley is shifting.
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27596-Tornado-Alley-shifting&
No evidence for that yet--not beyond how Seasons start and end in the South
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/tanim/torw8099.html (JAVA)

I have updated the April 15 event in the post here. Pictures of a Tornado from a barge, and how the town of Geiger was denied federal aid:
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/82546-Your-current-weather?p=1882734#post1882734
http://alabamastormtrackers.com/
http://alabamastormchasers.com/

New radar app http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?26148-New-radar-app-for-Droid&



More updates: Alabama now deadliest state for tornadoes
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47236
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47319


This stick was said to form a hailstone http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47447

http://www.alabamawx.com/?paged=7 Misc:
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47200 Websters Chapel Tornado
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47203 Tuscaloosa Tornado as it approaches

As the Tuscaloosa Birmingham event lifted, it cycled,and later spawned this near me
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47214
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47391

Report on Tus-BHM event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47219
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47317

The worth of chasers
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47326

Tuscaloosa
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47383

Birmingham funnel
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47393

Railroad bridge destroyed:
http://www.rhondapyatt.com/Weather/Tornado/Tornado-Tuscaloosa-Pleasant/16873905_8fjcrP#1276101479_JCGJZn6

Tim Marshall here to survey --his past work: http://www.gofbw.com/news.asp?ID=12877&fp=Y
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=24490 http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47103
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/archives/stnov00.htm
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/damage/goshen2.htm

Ruins:
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47432
Hope
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47476
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47408

Other tornado videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzThjbSTmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYXJx2GtR0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6giQ3csbUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEr2lCnQcow&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVoTAfEQ8C0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohIVzIZLuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC62TRfuJHY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9NXJK9zlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBzaPhLn2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rZbZ_fsZw&feature=related

Doswell's take
http://cadiiitalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/ignorance-is-not-bliss.html
http://cadiiitalk.blogspot.com/2011/04/disgraceful-sham-of-program.html

Tom Grazulis wrote the definitive history on Tornadoes. For more, go to:
http://www.tornadoproject.com/

[TheOncomingStorm]

Today it is sunny with clouds, yesterday was perfect day for what I here but I was indoors actually working all day. To nice to be indoors all day talking all the great news withith the last 36 hours so going out burning some more bruseh.

[TheOncomingStorm]

We have had a couple days of rain and now it is sunny for couple more, than on Sunday the rain comes back and is forecasted for four days.

[publiusr]

More on the outbreak here (register)
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27566-4-27-11-DISC-AL-TN-MS-KY-OH-IN-WV-GA&p=310209#post310209

[Torsten]

publiusr:

There is some utterly humbling video/photography in that collection of links. I listened to the interview with the fellows who were streaming the video of the Tuscaloosa event. Impressed by their sense of purpose.

Thanks for posting.

[publiusr]

"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft

“Keep looking—keep watching the skies”
The Thing from another World


I’ve never had much use for ‘different ways of knowing’ or of organized religion in general.

I still don’t.

I would really like to say that I came away changed from the recent Horror that blasted through Alabama, not far from the Moundville ruins that HPL was drawn to so many years ago. If anything, my agnosticism has only hardened to atheism.

Yet I have several things of which I am thankful for, having survived this latest assault from the firmament that is now quaintly known as the “Dixie Alley Outbreak of April 2011.”

First of all, I am thankful for both Cooper Green Hospital and the National Weather Service. Both institutions were very busy this past April, and both were targeted for budget cuts (along with many other science programs) by folks I don’t consider human:

http://www.wbhm.org/News/2009/countybudgetcuts.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2123557/
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1104/15jpss/
http://www.good.is/post/republicans-want-to-cut-tsunami-warning-spending/
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/something-called-volcano-monitoring/

Secondly, I am also thankful that my family and friends were not targeted by this storm.

A tornado is unlike any other disaster. It is seemingly a living entity that comes howling out of an evil sky to walk the earth. You can smell its spoor as it vomits forth the contents of victims made unrecognizable, proselytizing the landscape with papers, photos, trinkets and other personal effects of those it has eaten.

It throws forth arms, and reabsorbs them, writhing tentacles as it goes, like some forgotten God of the Abysses.
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27601-Tornadoes-with-Tentacle-Like-External-Vortices!!
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/threads/20811-America-s-Deadliest-Tornado

Native peoples have many words for the spawn of Ithaqua (the Wendigo) and Shupnippurkat.

To the Kiowa, he is Man’kayi’a.

In Native Alabama, however the name of the wind-spawn is Mahlikánko.

Blaspheming the heavens with the false manna of insulation, the demiurge heralds its appearance with thunderbolts—baleful sirens its trumps.

Is it any wonder that in no other disaster do parents shush their children, lest something hear them in the darkness, and turn?

Though knowing better, and not wanting to see my personal effects and transportation so evacuated, I fled before it—praise be his comings and goings. This god is real, unlike any other deity being prayed to despite failing to protect, despite failing to cause debris to rise and reassemble into those lives now extinguished.

Perhaps I fled due to reading those other two prophets of non-locality, Heisenberg and Schrodinger, who suggest that to see a thing is to give life to it, and no god can live long without worship. Logical positivism however, demands repeatable evidence-- which was delivered with repeated misery on camera and confirmed beyond any doubt, as evidenced by those stairways left behind the wake of the cyclone—stairways that lead to empty holes in the Cosmos where homes once stood.

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Lastly, I wish to give thanks to those true angels that are broadcast meteorologists:

--James Spann, whose knowledge of the geography that spans the state, was our Michael.

--Jerry Tracy’s longevity and quiet demeanor calmed and balmed his listeners.

--Channel 6’s crew were the last men standing, having tracked the vortex closely after WVUA, Tuscaloosa’s own voice, was silenced.

--Mark Prater, with his prayerful namesake, provided the soul of the tragedy, along with those radio personalities which helped spearhead relief efforts.

Together they voiced a mantra along the invisible ether that is the EM spectrum, which hounded the Great Beast out of our state, denying it any more victims, proving that it was not superstition, but science which saved the day.

And yet, I cannot shake this feeling of having been stalked.

You must understand that the stars were right.

It was, after all, exactly 13 years since Apollyon last stood before the Open Door Baptist Church and knocked. There, a little girl swore that she heard a voice which exclaimed:

“We need more angels over here.”

We still do.

[TheOncomingStorm]

No rain yet the rain seems to be skipping right over.

[ngc3314]

[I]
A tornado is unlike any other disaster. It is seemingly a living entity that comes howling out of an evil sky to walk the earth. You can smell its spoor as it vomits forth the contents of victims made unrecognizable, proselytizing the landscape with papers, photos, trinkets and other personal effects of those it has eaten. It throws forth arms, and reabsorbs them, writhing tentacles as it goes, like some forgotten God of the Abysses.


Yeah. They seem at once living, capricious and malevolent. We've only lately been able to catch up with the video that it seems everyone else was watching live when our lights went out. I'm struck that the tornado is much wider than the visible funnel. One writer asked on Twitter how widespread the damage was, so I put together this montage, after finally getting to some of what they're caling the "affected area". Especially where there are trees, structural damage extends much beyond the track obvious on aerial images, and additional wind damage shows up over a larger area in no discernible pattern.

http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/data/Tuscaloosa-27Apr2011-ground-versus-NOAA.png

The house with no actual damage is mine.

[publiusr]

You might want to contact Matt Biddle
He is doing a survey on warning efficacy as he did here in April 8, 1998 He has given me permission to give out his name and e-mail address. You and others in the path are who he wants to talk to:

Matt Biddle is at biddle@oupd.ou.edu
He did this survey
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr116/qr116.html

Chase Legend Tim Marshall also did work--scroll down
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/archives/stnov00.htm
http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/pastts98.htm
http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/birmdam2.htm#top

That was then, this is now:

http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/apr11_tornado/download/tuscaloosa_rotated_cropped.jpg
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=800+27th+St.+Tuscaloosa,+Alabama+35401&aq=&sll=35.782171,-98.173828&sspn=18.286406,40.517578&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=800+27th+St,+Tuscaloosa,+Alabama+35401&ll=33.187631,-87.546916&spn=0.01846,0.039568&t=h&z=15
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/27.html

Reed Timmer's site
http://www.tornadovideos.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhKjv9GuARQ&feature=player_embedded

Ironically, at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, this is playing on IMAX
http://www.tornadoalleymovie.com/index.php/about/

Phil Campbell, which was all but wiped out, had a loval attraction that survived--the aptly named dismals canyon
http://www.dismalscanyon.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Campbell,_Alabama

From the wiki

"Storms packing strong straight-line winds impacted North and Central Alabama in the early morning hours. These storms knocked out power and telephone lines in a few areas. Most areas had their power and telephone restored, but some remained without power through the remainder of the day and in some cases power was not restored until 2+ days later. This preliminary line of storms also caused some NOAA weather radio transmitter sites to stop functioning for the remainder of the outbreak."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25%E2%80%9328,_2011_tornado_outbreak

Update-- http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_04272011

Other
http://thestormreport.com/2011/04/
http://thestormreport.com/2009/11/alabama-tornado/ long ago--textbook image
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/alabama-tornado-photos-2011-storm_n_854879.html

Train hit by tornado--links here
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/117118-Cool-looking-tornado-near-Chicago

[TheOncomingStorm]

Windy and wet, the rain started yesterday afternoon.

[danscope]

No rain yet , but it's pretty cool for May . Got 53° and a breeze . A little sunshine would help.
Maybe................next week . :( At least we didn't get rained out for the golf league.
I feel for the folks along the Mississippi . They have water and snakes to deal with. Nasty situation .

Dan

[Buttercup]

No rain.

We are nearing a record-making drought. :( We're over 90 days without a drop of rain.

NEED RAIN. Which I know other parts of the nation don't want to hear, but our crops and wildlife are suffering. We've also had troubles with wild-fire breakouts in various nearby mountain ranges.

Otherwise sunny, occasional wispy cloud, gusty. Temps averaging low 80s day/mid-50s night.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Windy and sunny here today. Droughts like that probably can happen here but are rare.

[LaurelHS]

I took an umbrella when I left the house today because rain was predicted. But instead the sun shone all afternoon. :)

[publiusr]

Severe weather again today, irritating relief efforts and forcing power lines down again http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47629

Recent Outbreak in the record books
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47536

More video pics

Cullman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abc3340weather/5717013579/

Tuscaloosa event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47685 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyd_B2mEcFY&feature=related
Out of the aeons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNeCv3NIQcc&feature=youtu.be


Hackleburg aftermath
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47706

The Tanner event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcst_GGOqfM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27584-4-27-2011-REPORTS-AL-MS-TN-KY-VA-GA-OH

http://www.bamawx.com/
http://www.stormchase.com/
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/
http://weather.cod.edu/chasing/stormchase.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42939486/ns/local_news-rochester_ny/t/brockport-students-look-chase-storms/
http://www.stormtrack.org/links/
http://www.hpc.msstate.edu/directory/information.php?eid=1960
http://www.geosciences.msstate.edu/faculty/brown/links/chase-new2.html

Asian twister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyUFwAVCxU&feature=player_embedded

[ABR.]

It's snowing here in the Sierra Nevadas.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Rain again for last 3 days. We have one or two days of sun then rain rain for 5 or 6 days.
ETA what really sucks about all this rain is that I have stuff to do outdoors is almost impossible to do in the rain.

[redshifter]

Record-setting rain here over the weekend. Not too bad today (if it was early April...), 50's/overcast/breezy. Guess I really don't have anything to complain about, lots of folks have it a lot worse that we do here in the Pacific NW weather-wise these days.

[redshifter]

After last weekend's deluge, we're now forcasted to have our first 70-degree day of the year today or tomorrow. A bit later than usual, this spring has been unusually cold and wet--even for the Pacific NW...

[Swift]

We continue to have a very wet spring. In March and April it rained 54 out of 61 days. For the year, through May 15, we've had 20.6" of precipitation, compared to a normal of about 12"; second only to 1950 with 22.45" (since records have been kept). And since the 15th we've had four more days with at least some rain. I'd be happy to mail some to Buttercup if I could.

[Fazor]

We continue to have a very wet spring. In March and April it rained 54 out of 61 days. For the year, through May 15, we've had 20.6" of precipitation, compared to a normal of about 12"; second only to 1950 with 22.45" (since records have been kept). And since the 15th we've had four more days with at least some rain. I'd be happy to mail some to Buttercup if I could.

Yeah; I hear weathermen-and-women in Ohio are lobbying to get "Crappy" officially added as a weather forecast. "Tomorrow? High 54, with an 80% chance of Crappy."

[The_Radiation_Specialist]

Current weather is great. A cool breeze is brushing past me from the open window.

[Fazor]

I'll add that yesterday's "nicer" weather that was forecast in the morning turned out to be gray skies until 5:00pm, then four hours worth of downpours. Today it's supposed to "clear out" but it went from clear blue skies when I woke up to a full, gray cloud cover with dark clouds on the horizon. Yesterday they were saying "At least the weekend will be nice!"

Sunday, we're going to my first Cleveland Indians game since 1995! And as of right now, they're calling for scattered T-storms with a 50% chance of rain. (Granted, that's likely to change many times between now and Sunday, so we'll have to see how it actually works out.)

I know there's a lot of BAUTers in Florida. Anyone want to trade home straight-up?

[Trebuchet]

After three drop-dead-gorgeous days the Great NorthWet has returned to something more normal for this time of year. Mid 50's (F) and partly rainy.

I feel bad even mentioning the weather around here after all the horrible stuff (tornadoes & floods) going on elsewhere. We really have very mild weather. Rarely very hot or cold, little snow, very rare tornadoes, no hurricanes, and (surprisingly to some) we rarely have heavy rains. Or hail, for that matter. Most folks here see sleet and call it hail.

[Noclevername]

We had real hail here today (central Indiana, not named after the dog). The largest chunks I measured were around 1 inch in diameter.

[Trebuchet]

I just looked up hail in Wikipedia to see what the low end size limit was. They say 5mm, which sounds about right although a little less than my guess of 1/4 inch. When I was growing up in eastern Montana we had some really severe damaging hailstorms in the summer. Pretty frightening. We had stones of over three inches at times, although the worst one had only 1/2 to 3/4 inch -- accompanied by 100mph winds. There wasn't a west-facing window left in town.

[TheOncomingStorm]

You've guessed it rain again today, but the sun will back tomorrow.

[NEOWatcher]

Yesterday we had Dancing Manhole Covers (with video) (http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-northeast-ohio-weather-storm-damage-5-23-11-txt,0,210596.story).


Sabol admits that it is hard to say for certain what caused the manhole to move like it did. Skeptics might argue that the manhole cover -- probably weighing at least 80-100 pounds -- had to have been manipulated.
What skeptics? We're talking about something in the neighborhood of a mere half pound per square inch.

My big question was what happened at the end when the camera turned around and you just heard "Oh my god" then cut out.
My only guess from the looks of the debris is that big bird got blown away.

[Buttercup]

Our severe drought continues. No rain for 110 days and counting. :(

Very warm (85 F? nearing noon), mildly breezy today. Of course is sunny. Clear blue skies.

We need rain!

[HenrikOlsen]

Yesterday we had Dancing Manhole Covers (with video) (http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-northeast-ohio-weather-storm-damage-5-23-11-txt,0,210596.story).
What skeptics? We're talking about something in the neighborhood of a mere half pound per square inch.
My guess is that the wind direction, plus the cars makes a area with a lowered air pressure just above the manhole. Won't take a lot of pressure differential to get it to dance like that. Grass definitely indicates that it's air blowing out from beneath which make it act that way.

[Noclevername]

Tornado warnings here in central Indy. Thunder getting louder as I write.

[Noclevername]

Tornadoes didn't land here, looks like just thunderstorms and hail tonight & tomorrow. Other parts of the state weren't so lucky.

[ABR.]

Thunderstorms here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. We were under a tornado warning earlier, but the storm seems to be weakening.

[Noclevername]

Another tornado siren went off 3/4 hr. ago, I had to flee to my impregnable shelter-- my bathroom.

[ravens_cry]

It was like being in a literal shower here, but without the hot water tap turned on, and I had to walk about a kilometre home in it. I was not impressed.

[icebreaker]

I didn't notice last night rain, just saw the road while driving this morning. My ears didn't hurt this past month, so I guess it's not too cold.

[Noclevername]

Another storm here, bleah.

Rain, rain, go away,
I don't need a flood today.

[HenrikOlsen]

Bright sun all day, expecting heavy rain later.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Sunny here, started out foggy, we need a strong wind to blow out all the humidity. Maybe we can make all blow west to buttercup but it probably has to first go over NCN.

[Noclevername]

We've had several houses blown away here, and a semi truck turned over. We politely decline any more wind.

[mike alexander]

Cold, blustery, on and off rain. Pattern expected to hold through the weekend.

La Nina was supposed to be weakening, but so far this year is shaping up much like last, where summer was a few blinks here and there.

[redshifter]

Cold, blustery, on and off rain. Pattern expected to hold through the weekend.



More like the pattern will hold through the remainder of spring and into summer here in the Seattle area...at least until July 5:eek:

[Buttercup]

Hot, sunny, calm, clear skies. Need rain. 112 days without rain.

[shriram]

Waiting eagerly for monsoon! Too hot and humid!

[publiusr]

More on tornado outbreaks
From space
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47797
http://gizmodo.com/5805821/this-video-shows-how-five-days-of-deadly-tornadoes-look-from-space
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=731&MediaTypeID=2

From the air http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48474


Tonight
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/witness/7051/Overview
Last week
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/tornado-rampage-2011-tornado-rampage-preview.html

Rushing airy presences--made o squirming ropes
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48001

Joplin tornado birth-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7CtF5ljxY&feature=related

A quote from stormtrack site
"genesis from rope tornado to a giant mature and violent wedge in 1 min. and 20 seconds. That is absolutely unreal. The parameters for this storm are sure to be studied to see what caused this accelerated process"


Abstracts
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47975

Worst lists
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/killers.html

Other links
Best videos of Tuscaloosa event
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrEverduarte
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47778
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47685

Arkansas event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48034
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48040
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48043
http://www.alabamawx.com/?paged=11

Aftermath
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47536
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47836
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47706
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48431
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48412

The 1973 Brent event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48401

Gary Dobbs (WBHP/ WAAY Meteriologist) was interviewed by Paul Finebaum on Monday, May 9, 2011 www.finebaum.com
http://www.stormforce31.com/?p=408
His story here:
http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Gary-Dobbs-Survives-Aprils-Fury/sCmfRSNmTk-JlfYu8edfww.cspx
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/waay-meteorologist-gary-dobbs-reports-live-from-his-porch-as-tornado-system-rolls-in_b9608
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/05/132_miles_of_devastation_ef-5.html

FEMA wants money back from tornado victims
http://www2.dothaneagle.com/news/2011/may/18/fema-seeking-money-back-enterprise-tornado-victims-ar-1860907/

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The Joplin event and related storms
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=event_2011may22_summary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado
http://www.koamtv.com/story/14695681/monday-may-23-2011-continuous-tornado-coverage?redirected=true
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389737/Joplin-MO-tornado-At-89-dead-twister-cuts-4-mile-swathe-Missouri-town.html#comments
Inside the funnel-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrnRSSHz4dU
Second thoughts
http://cadiiitalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/growing-sense-of-revulsion.html
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27801-2011-05-22-Joplin-MO-tornado-thread&p=311915&viewfull=1#post311915

Radar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjJAlYytJQ
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-nFuIZN4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYaXZiByCk

Damage-the hospital
http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/05/inside-st-johns-hospital-joplin.html
http://www.mercy.net/joplin/stories-of-mercy/45-seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XltCUT5aQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DO&Dato=20110522&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=105220802&Ref=PH
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47925
http://stormdoctor.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfE6wGceA_A&feature=player_embedded#at=45
http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/5759039157/joplin-tornado-first-person-video

http://www.wickedwindmedia.com/
http://www.extremechasetours.com/
http://www.youtube.com/holytornado84
http://www.youtube.com/user/holytornado777
http://www.kmbc.com/slideshow/news/27985989/detail.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUrBoGe0bIs
http://www.kdrmedia.net/
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/25/2904386/sedalia-picks-up-after-tornado.html

Audio as it happened: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2798


Shades of Fukishima
http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/Tornado_Alley_Reactor_Not_Fully_Twister-Proof_122689214.html?storySection=story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43187140/ns/us_news-environment/

In Oklahoma
http://news.yahoo.com/video/oklahomacity-koco-18229979/tractor-trailer-destroyed-by-tornado-25339114
We've seen this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgGFU4zyXKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avszUNRkV8I&feature=youtu.be

Texas
Spooky twister http://iwitness.weather.com/_Corinth-Tornado-/video/1585480/148597.html
http://www.wfaa.com/younews/122550324.html
http://iwitness.weather.com/service/searchEverything.kickAction?keywords=corinth+Texas +tornado+TJL+Morey&includePhoto=on&includeVideo=on&as=148597&sortType=relevance
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48029

Misc
http://chasercon.com/
http://www.theweathercompany.com/coolstuff.html
http://www.grlevelxstuff.com/index.php?categoryid=14&p13_sectionid=3
http://stormhorn.com/
http://www.meetstevegreen.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=59&task=videodirectlink&id=13

Tom Grazulis
http://www.theworld.org/2011/04/tornado-tom-grazulis/
Gene Rhoden
http://www.highinstability.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzTyqKQnpw
Joplin
http://www.joplinglobe.com/tornadomay2011/x2051363173/Tornado-fatality-victims-as-of-June-2
http://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/3737560-Helping-police-officers-struck-by-the-Joplin-tornado/
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1517687342/Joplin-tornado-to-prompt-research
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/05/former_saginaw_resident_near_j.html
Caution language
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c4_1306929740

Interesting
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27911-05-24-2011-El-Reno-OK-EF-5&
http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Could-a-mass-sounding-of-tornado-sirens-do-more-harm-than-good-122759099.html
http://www.bhamstore.com/

hypnotic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnUdElzGys

Mass twister videos
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/videos_of_the_tornadoes_that_d.html
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12004485110665/caught-on-camera-inside-the-tornado/
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12004475911173/details-on-those-killed-by-tornados-in-w-mass/
http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-do-we-track-massachusetts-tornado.html


In California
http://www.kcra.com/r/28103474/detail.html

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/tornado-touches-down-near-yuba-city/1d0sfp5xj?cpkey=5debc51d-00ab-4be5-bea4-56e95dae25bd%7Cyuba%20city%20CA%20tornado%20video% 7C%7C&q=yuba%20city%20CA%20tornado%20video

[Salty]

Area: Fort Worth, Texas
Lat. 32.83 Long. -97.35
Local time 2114 CDST
Fair and breezy
Temperature 880F (310C)
Humidity 40%
Wind S 21 G 32mph ( 33.6 - 51.2Kph)
Barometer 29.71" (1005.1mb)
Dewpoint 610F (160C)
Visibility night time.

[Swift]

Rain, rain, and rain, followed by periods of rain. Last I checked our normal to date for the year is just over 14" and we are at 25". I'm going to build an ark.

http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/nature/rain-053.gifhttp://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/umbrella-smiley.gif?1292867693

[TheOncomingStorm]

We have sun and heat starting yesterday. The only drawback yesterday was that I was driving around in a black jeep wearing a black t shrit while driving around.

[Buttercup]

Finally: RAIN!! :)

We had our first rainfall in 121 days of a severe drought.

It only lasted 10 minutes, but was a brisk downpour; beautiful and refreshing. A bit of thunder and lightning too.

This storm heralds our rainy season. We're predicted to get more this afternoon, and hopefully throughout the week.

[danscope]

That rain must be most welcomed after such a drought. Maybe there's hope for your almond trees.

Dan

[publiusr]

Record Heat here. Hoping the only vortex I see for awhile are dust or hay devils

[Buttercup]

That rain must be most welcomed after such a drought. Maybe there's hope for your almond trees.

Dan

I'm flattered you remember! :) Yes, our almond tree is again showing signs of life (what watering we've been allowed to do helped). So next year hopefully it'll be back to 100%.

Today with light hazy clouds. Hot, probably 95 F. Still. No recurrent rain (boo!).

[Trebuchet]

Beautiful here the past two days, if a tad too warm. Note that for me, "too warm" is anything over about 68F/20C. We had a very hard rain Thursday afternoon. That's actually quite rare in these parts; usually it just drizzles.

[Van Rijn]

Beautiful here the past two days, if a tad too warm. Note that for me, "too warm" is anything over about 68F/20C.


And 68F is a bit cool for me, at least if I'm not active.



We had a very hard rain Thursday afternoon. That's actually quite rare in these parts; usually it just drizzles.

And the Sacramento area has been having significant rain, sometimes hard, and anything beyond a light sprinkle is extremely rare this time of year here (even a light sprinkle is uncommon this late in the year). Quite a few major outdoor events were canceled because of it. I'm personally getting very tired of the rain.

[ABR.]

It's still raining here in the Sierra Nevadas.

[geonuc]

Atlanta, and Georgia, appears to be entering another drought. And it's been very hot recently.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Sunny here. It was actually sunny here for about a week.

[jrkeller]

It rained today. This is first time in three months.

[Buttercup]

Speaking of rain, we had more (the 2nd rainfall in over 120 days) on Sunday night/Monday morning. I awoke to thunder, flashes of lightning, the curtain stirring in gusts of breeze, and the truly delightful sound of brisk rainfall. :D Fell back to sleep shortly after, feeling refreshed and happy for more rain.

[adamskiiix]

Hot, humid, +30C and i can see some flashes of lightning through my window as im typing this words. Thats spring in Warsaw, Poland:]

[Cougar]

We live in an ocean of air.

It is whippin' around here - just gusty, but big gusts. And the nearby skies are dark. It seems odd that the infrared radar shows the storminess coming up from the southwest, but the 20-30 mph winds are coming from the northeast....

[danscope]

Getting wicked hot and humid. It's supposed to make record or exceed it tomorrow. 98° or better. Hmmmm.....
Good job I installed the ac. :)

[Trebuchet]

Low 60's (F, of course), mostly sunny, light breeze, low humidity. In other words, absolutely perfect!

[TonyE]

Clear blue sky, 29C, slight breeze, pool is 31C - ahhh Summer is here!

[danscope]

A respite from the high 90's. Got 60° with sustained periods of grey. Had quite a lot of rain yesterday and the occasional shower today. So long as it doesn't rain on tuesday. ( golf ) . :)

[TheOncomingStorm]

Rain her but after twoo weeks of sun the garden could use it.

[publiusr]

Joplin death toll up- http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/10/missouri.joplin.fungus/
http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-may-22-2011-joplin.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdK6H9d6J0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-nFuIZN4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-LvICOGrE&feature=player_embedded#at=2131
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2011/06/05/animation.joplin.tornado.noaa?hpt=hp_c2
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27927-Joplin-Damage-Documentation-(WARNING-LOTS-OF-IMAGES-IN-THIS-THREAD!-SLOW-LOADING!)

155
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110621/NEWS11/110621006/Death-toll-from-Joplin-tornado-reaches-155

Tornado reports from April 27 that were missed http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48648
Fire hazard due to drought--debris burning http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48640, http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48544

Maine
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/06/09/news/tornado-confirmed-in-aroostook-county/

Taiwan and Australia not immune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctc3jCyjjCE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/30/waterspouts-2011-australia-video_n_868802.html

Chile:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7368909n&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cbsnews%2Ffeed+%28CBSNews.com %29

France http://alerte.vigilance-meteo.fr/index-en.html
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27975-Possible-Tornados-in-France-amp-Germany-today

The Sounding
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2011/06/05/animation.joplin.tornado.noaa?hpt=hp_c2

Volcanado http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/06/thousands-evacuate-ashes-spread-after-chilean-volcano-erupts/?hpt=hp_c2
Gustnado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySy5Uq0VVPg&feature=player_embedded

On Warnings
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27943-James-Spann-speaks-to-the-NWS-and-the-media-concerning-tornado-warnings-and-other...
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48699 http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48880
Close call http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/869355/the_tornado_near_disaster_in_roanoke.html

from Springfield
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27917-Springfield-MA-Tornado-Damage

Nice photo of thunderhead http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48682
Lightning still a danger for all thunderstorms http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48597

Hurricanes up next http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48507

O/T Interesting news
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/13/scientists-make-living-laser-from-human-cell/?test=faces
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/13/blimp-crash-in-germany-claims-pilots-life/

Outbreak aftermath update:De Kalb twister upgraded to EF-5 http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=4272011_dekalb_county
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=49266
http://www.nwa2011.com/?p=264

Updating the Warning Process
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48699
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=48880
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/06/community_leaders_examine_less.html#incart_hbx

Lightning scar
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=50040
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=49201
Shelf cloud
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=49485
Heat
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=50066

Straight line winds can damage too
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=49492

Tornado height
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?27944-Tornado-Height-ABOVE-Ceiling

Cullman video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ23oUUeY1k&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF3dnq5Blyg

Tuscaloosa http://www.youtube.com/user/MrEverduarte
Misc
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Survey of 2011 Super outbreak
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=stormsurveys_summary
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_04272011

Much of the state from space
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_04272011satellite

Weather sats feels budget axe
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/137251742/blind-eye-in-the-sky-weather-satellites-lose-funding

[danscope]

Cool, 62 ° with a little drizzle now. Brought in the cat , for the coyotes are howling . Hmmmm.......

[Trebuchet]

Cool, 62 ° with a little drizzle now. Brought in the cat , for the coyotes are howling . Hmmmm.......

That's just one of the reasons we only have indoor cats these days.

[danscope]

Yep, I have to watch him. He thinks he's tough. But he hasn't met the coyotes. They'd like to
'have' him for dinner.

[TonyE]

Have to put sun-cream on my cats ears.

[Jim]

Cool, 62 ° with a little drizzle now. ...

Are you complaining or bragging?

Houston is running about 10F above normal for our highs since about mid-May (two consecutive days of 105, averaging 97) and we're about 11" behind on this year's rainfall ("extreme drought").

"62 and drizzle" sounds wonderful.

[Buttercup]

We're "with you," Houston (Jim). Hot dry, hot dry, hot dry. :( I stepped outdoors yesterday to help husband with something; in less than 1 minute my lips were feeling very parched. We've had 20 minutes of rainfall in the past 130 days; and that was 2 weeks ago.

Triple-digit temps. No rain in the forecast. WE NEED RAIN.

[danscope]

Hi, 105° has to be intense !!! And it isn't easy on engines either.
We'll have low 80° today. Needed a jacket yesterday for golf. There was a breeze behind the cool temp.
I hope your AC is working well.
Best regards,
Dan

[Buttercup]

...water...
...rain...
...water that falls from the sky...
...what does it look/feel like??...
...I've forgotten... :(

The drought continues. It is BAD. Yesterday our temp was 107 F. It's going to be 107 F again today.

I do feel for the people in other parts of the nation undergoing flooding. Wish some of that water could be diverted to *here*!

[Trebuchet]

Half decent today for the neighborhood garage sale. A bit of rain for opening, but none during the day and now it's pretty nice. We sold an incredible quantity of my M-I-L's knickknacks.

A learning tale: Years ago, we gave my father-in-law a "Son of Hibachi"; a rather clever little folding barbecue. We had one and used the heck out of it. His, years after his death, was still brand new. We had it out for the sale last year and it attracted no interest. Same thing was happening today. About 2:00 PM I decided to actually try giving a customer a sales pitch. He bought it. It pays to advertise.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Rain here yesterday and today.

[danscope]

Dead calm, humid, 85° . Had partly sun earlier , overcast now .
Let's all wish for a little rain for Buttercup . Yes !!

Dan

[Buttercup]

Dead calm, humid, 85° . Had partly sun earlier , overcast now .
Let's all wish for a little rain for Buttercup . Yes !!

Dan

Thank you! :clap:

It is hotter than a pistol today; probably 107 F again. There are a few *real* clouds and a 10% chance of rain, but I doubt we'll get any. No breeze.

I can't imagine having lived here 100 years ago, sans air conditioning, and in the sorts of layered starchy ankle- and wrist-length clothing women wore then! :(

[danscope]

Every soul who made a life from that territory is a hero in my view. They define the word persistence.

Best regards,
Dan

[danscope]

Dew point 66° temp 74° and calm. Extra persperation for for golf game tonight. Hmmmm.......

[ABR.]

Rain in the Sierra Nevadas! It's been raining all day long, a nice soaking rain. I don't think the temperature broke 60F here today. Of course, we're supposed to get triple digits in a few days.

[Van Rijn]

And it's been raining, sometimes extremely heavy rain, since noon in the Sacramento area. Per the news, it's been 19 years since this area has had significant rain this time of year. Not surprising, as this time of year there's rarely heavy cloud cover, let alone rain.

[danscope]

Not good viewing , but you can use the rain .

[Van Rijn]

I'm not sure about that. The reservoirs are full and there's heavy snow pack. It might help with the fire risk on the fourth, but the increased growth might lead to a greater fire risk later in the season.

[suntrack2]

Today the temperature was just 40 degree Celsius, it was in the last month just 45 degree celsius, somewhere in the vicinity it was counted as 48 degree celsius. I am living in a very hot region on the earth. sometime the day temperature was cool and night temperature was so hot, because may be the la-nina or el-Nina effect..may be.

But in the rainy season the temperature is almost decreasing and we are now getting a temperature of 26 to 29 degrees.
and in winter normally the temperature goes up to the bottom that is just 10-12 degree Celsius.

Temperature varies with continent to continent and region to region due the diversity in the formations of the surface
conditions. :)

enjoy

[Buttercup]

Dry, sunny, hot.
Dry, sunny, hot.
Dry, sunny, hot.

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever see rain again.

[danscope]

It sounds like Tattoine ! Well, I'm part Blackfoot , so maybe I'll do a little rain dance . Sometimes it works :)

[Argos]

Abnormally cold.

[Buttercup]

It sounds like Tattoine !

It is. :( I've lied; I don't live on Coruscant but that other place you mentioned. :(

Although there are some puffy clouds in the sky. I'd nearly forgotten what clouds look like! We do stand a chance for rain this weekend. It is *desperately* needed (and wanted!!).


Well, I'm part Blackfoot , so maybe I'll do a little rain dance . Sometimes it works :)

Well allegedly a great-great grandmother was Native American, so I will join you!

[TheOncomingStorm]

Just for Buttercup, we are getting showers today.

[Trebuchet]

As are we. Of course, that's quite normal for the July 4th weekend in these parts. I don't really mind, it helps keep the fireworks under control.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Of course the spring/summer I want to do stuff outdoors we get more rain than normal.

[Buttercup]

Just for Buttercup, we are getting showers today.

Thank you for letting me know. :) I do wish it could be shared. ;)

I just now lifted the edge of the curtain covering east window (next to me)...clear blue sky, not a cloud in sight. :(

When we do get rain? I'm going to stand out in it the ENTIRE time, I don't care if I catch a cold or pneumonia!!

[Buttercup]

::faints::

--revives--

There's hope after all! CLOUDS to the north and northwest! Clouds can form rather quickly in this area, and one in particular is building up.

We are forecast for rain this weekend. I sure hope so!

[Buttercup]

Yesterday afternoon we had beautiful clouds and a 20-minute GLORIOUS rain!! :D So refreshing. It's still pleasingly cool and fresh this early a.m. (5:35 a.m.). Hopefully MORE RAIN this weekend!

[HenrikOlsen]

We had enough rain yesterday that a 1 hour trip back from visiting a friend took 2 due to flooding in parts of the train system in Copenhagen.

[Trebuchet]

After several nice days, it's turned damp. Just in time for the holiday!

[Buttercup]

Last evening we had a "long" (probably 15 minutes...that's long for us!) and beautiful rainshower. Lightning in the north-northwest, and later overhead. Spectacular. :D Thunder too. My cat likes the rain and lightning; but (not surprisingly) thunder spooks her. It also seems to have rained throughout the night, probably at intervals; the ground was damp at 6:00 a.m.

Clouds are piling up in the sky again this mid-afternoon. Hot, probably 97 F. Calm. And hopefully *more rain*!

[HenrikOlsen]

We had enough rain yesterday that a 1 hour trip back from visiting a friend took 2 due to flooding in parts of the train system in Copenhagen.
Update to add, since I didn't experience the bad parts:
Worst rain recorded for Copenhagen in 300-400 years, about 150 millimeter (6 inches) (precise measurements won't be confirmed until tomorrow) in only a few hours.

Historical buildings and the fortifications at Kastellet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastellet,_Copenhagen), one of the best preserved 17th century fortifications in Northern Europe, has been badly damaged.

It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of rats drowned.

[Buttercup]

We had a rip-roaring thunderstorm last evening. Brilliant flashes of lightning (I didn't close the window this time, Henrik :p ), pounding thunder, and LOTS of rain! :) A brisk rain which continued for over an hour, yay! At one point our electricity was knocked out for about 40 minutes. And this morning's air is cool and fresh. Hopefully more rain this evening...

[TheOncomingStorm]

We also had a thunderstorm last night. It nearly pulled some potato plants out of the ground.

[Buttercup]

We also had a thunderstorm last night. It nearly pulled some potato plants out of the ground.

You get thunderstorms regularly, I'm sure.

This was our 2nd in about 5 months.

[danscope]

Possible T storms, 91° and really humid . Dewpoint 71° .

[BigDon]

A nice late winter day today. Cold wind, rain, overcast. You wouldn't think it was July.

I think the Southern Hemisphere folks are pulling a fast one somewhere.

[TheOncomingStorm]

You get thunderstorms regularly, I'm sure.

This was our 2nd in about 5 months.

We do get thunderstorms regularly because it gets humid then the air cools down. Yesterday morning it rained, in the afternoon itwas really humid and in the evening the strom hit. The storm was bad compared to others we have had lately.

[TheOncomingStorm]

I am sorry if it looked like I was stealing buttercups thunder about the storm.

[Trebuchet]

Man, is it ever humid in the GNW today. If it was also hot, I'd think I was in Louisiana or something. I really picked the wrong day to clean the carpet -- it's taking forever to dry.

[Buttercup]

Man, is it ever humid in the GNW today. If it was also hot, I'd think I was in Louisiana or something. I really picked the wrong day to clean the carpet -- it's taking forever to dry.

I recall humidity like that from being born/raised in the Midwest! If my mother didn't toss towels into the dryer, they hung ALL DAY on the line ... and towards sunset might JUST be dry. :(

Here? I can hang the heaviest bath towel fresh from the washing machine, and 15 minutes later she's dry and stiff as a board. :) (Unfortunately this also means breads and cakes must be securely wrapped at all times; otherwise your cupcake is stiff and dry as a brick in 15 minutes too).

Our current weather: Light breeze, maybe 7 mph. Mostly sunny; some high puffy clouds around. Temp 92 F. Chances for rain low. :(

[Interestednewb]

Here in the wonderful midwest it is HOT, HOT, HOT! Today we had an excessive heat advisory and an Air quality alert. I love my Weatherbug app.! :)

[danscope]

90 ° with dewpoint of 70° . Muggy . We won the best ball tournament in spite of that ! :) 3 under .Gonna make 100° thursday .

Let's all hope Buttercup gets some badly needed rain .

[TheOncomingStorm]

30 C here and muggy got the air conditioner up and running.

[danscope]

Muggy...temp 90° , dew point 76° . Good day for the beach.

[Buttercup]

Let's all hope Buttercup gets some badly needed rain .

Thanks danscope! :) Mostly cloudy out there, strong chances of rain. Keeping fingers crossed! Our high is probably 103 F. Calm; no breeze. Humidity is probably 30% (that's "high" for us).

[danscope]

We sat on a lake with a 25 knot breeze in our face, along with our grandaughter . It must have been 15 ° cooler :)
Could use a good soaking rain though .

[Solfe]

Rain and thunderstorms here today.

I saw lightning hit a power pole on the next street over and the whole house shook. It actually gave me goose bump as the whole house made this sizzling noise just before the lightning hit. I am really surprised we have power, if it had hit the next pole over I bet it would have blown the transformer on that pole.

As the lightning hit there was a shower of blue sparks upwards from the pole.

Cool, but not really cool, if you know what I mean.

[Trebuchet]

After all my boasting about how nice the summers actually are here ("summer" being defined as July 5 to August 31), we're having an unusually cold and wet one. At least it was nice Sunday for my wife's family reunion.

[Spoons]

We had a nice mild storm here this evening. I got absolutely drenched riding home, but the lightning was more than worth it. Beautiful! It's all pretty calm now. I'd love to think there is more on the way but it all seems very mild out there now.

[Buttercup]

We had a nice mild storm here this evening. I got absolutely drenched riding home, but the lightning was more than worth it. Beautiful! It's all pretty calm now. I'd love to think there is more on the way but it all seems very mild out there now.

I'm glad to say that sounds familiar! :) Last evening we had a brisk 15-minute rain.

And about an hour later, we had a good old-fashioned gully washer. It rained for 20 minutes straight; a deluge!

Unfortunately we'd decided to take a ride in the rain, and the left-sided windshield wiper's blade would "flip" if the wipers were going too fast. So husband had to keep the pace slow...which wasn't good enough for how fast/hard the rain was coming down! We pulled into a parking lot.

Meanwhile, lots of rip-roaring lightning and thunder. :D Gorgeous clouds.

It's cool and fresh here this morning. Rain fresh.

Hopefully more tonight!

[Tobin Dax]

After all my boasting about how nice the summers actually are here ("summer" being defined as July 5 to August 31), we're having an unusually cold and wet one. At least it was nice Sunday for my wife's family reunion.

Half the reason I didn't visit my parents this summer is because of the weather there last year. I've seen a few pictures from the Portland area in the last few weeks, one taken while it was raining, and they're just torture during this heat wave out here.

[Lord Jubjub]

I am busy cheering Don into becoming the monster Tropical Storm I know he can become.

Don't think he'll become a hurricane.

[Spoons]

Jeez, we god another rush of storm activity last night too. I was in at work around 8pm when I got a call from my mother - "The storm is coming! Quick, get out of there!" No, it wasn't bunker time, but I had to walk back to her place from work, where I'd parked my car for the day. Unfortunately I was a pinch late and got caught in a spot of hail and the wind turned my umbrella inside out - that's only supposed to happen in slapstick comedies.

Wasn't too severe, though it wouldn't have been too nice for one chap. I was walking along and saw a guy in his gopher (electric wheelchair type thingy) stuck in the middle of an intersection. Seems his battery had failed at the worst possible time. Those things are a little difficult to push - a fair bit of resistance. He was a lovely old chap though. Unfortunately I had to leave him tucked undercover but he reckoned it'd fire up again soon. I hope it did.

Turns out this guy runs out of juice in that thing all the time - he'd done the same thing in the middle of summer directly outside my mum's house. Stuck in the scorching direct sunlight for an hour and a half. Mum helped him out with an umbrella and water, but that can't have been fun. He's a cheerful ol' trooper.

Oh, the rain got a lot heavier later last night too. Lovely!

[HenrikOlsen]

Unfortunately I was a pinch late and got caught in a spot of hail and the wind turned my umbrella inside out - that's only supposed to happen in slapstick comedies.
That actually happens quite often when people are silly enough to try to use and umbrella in high wind, I've seen it happen several times when a gust reversed the wind direction suddenly.

[Spoons]

It's not really a matter of silly enough. It was kind of raining too. The alternative being to get belted with chunks of hail - but at least my umbrella wouldn't have gone inside out! Phew. ;)

I got it back to normal anyway.

[Jim]

Houston is sitting on 15 consecutive days with a high of 100F or more, a new record. We've had 24 26 days of 100+, second most; the record is 32 and we have a very good chance of beating it.

And we've had no rain to speak of. Or, rather, if you get any rain you brag about it. (We got 0.1" a few days ago!) We've just been put on mandatory water rationing; we can water our lawns twice a week between 8pm and 10am. That's more than some area communities.

[Trebuchet]

And conversely, someone has determined that Seattle has officially had 78 minutes of summer so far, defined by time with the temperature above 80F. That's actually fine with me. I hate hot weather.

[Jim]

All this different weather around the country/world simply reinfiorces my belief that what we have is not a climate problem but a logistics one.

[Buttercup]

Rain, rain, rain! :D Yippee!

We've gotten enough rain in the past week to get us out of drought status.

Our temps are, of course, cooler as a result as well.

Lightning and thunder last evening with a long torrent of rain.

We're glad. Our garden is glad!

[danscope]

Rain at last!!! Thank goodness . Surely , it will help .

Dan

[BigDon]

Still having a cold summer. It's been early spring since early spring.

But after seeing the midwest get scortched by temps over 100F countunously for over two months I'm not crying about it.

[Buttercup]

Rain at last!!! Thank goodness . Surely , it will help .

Dan

Yep! :) And a good chance we'll get more today. Thunderheads piling up all around...

[Buttercup]

Roughly 3 hours after posting the above, we got more rain. :) Storms moved in from all around, but primarily from the southeast. The storms seemed to stall for about an hour, but then thunder began rumbling and soon we had a brisk, refreshing rainfall of about 20 minutes' duration.

Still overcast. Temp probably 80 F (delightful). Hopefully more rain before bedtime!

[ABR.]

Nice. We have to wait until October for the next rains here in the Sierra Nevadas. Although this year, who knows? We got a three-day rain in June this year so I guess anything is possible.

[BigDon]

Hey ABR. We're getting huge fog banks nightly for weeks now. Eaves and rooflines dripping well before 2 AM

We don't need no stinkin' rain!

[Jim]

We're still in our streak of 100+ days (18 and counting). The local weathermen are showing seven day forecasts with 100+ temps every day.

Except for one weatherman. He has stubbornly shown five 100+ days but the last two show 99. He's been doing that for about a week now.

Wishful thinking.

Oh, and the drought continues. Houston is drawing water from Lake Conroe to keep Lake Houston's level above the pump suction. And we went on mandatory water rationing this week. We get to water our yards two days a week, between 8pm and 10am. You get a warning for the first offense and a fine for the next.

[Buttercup]

Nice. We have to wait until October for the next rains here in the Sierra Nevadas. Although this year, who knows? We got a three-day rain in June this year so I guess anything is possible.

My brother-in-law lives in Safford, AZ. They get even less (much less) rain than we do. Your comment reminded me of that.

Around 1:00 a.m. a thunder/lightning storm blew up. :) Had window open (side-slider) about 5 inches. Nice refreshing gusts of cool air. Cat jumped down from the windowsill, meowing loudly. :lol: A year ago she literally flew over the bed from a nasty crack/flash of storm. :lol: Anyway, she curled up beside me and soon it began briskly raining. Seems the thunder and lightning didn't last long, but hopefully we got a lot of rain (I fell back to sleep).

So far our rainy season is just as robust as I'd hoped it would be.

[ABR.]

Mmmm...Safford. I spent a great morning collecting aquatic bugs/beetles in the Gila River near there back in 2000. I really need to make another collecting trip to Arizona one of these days. I hear that during the monsoon season, the big longhorn beetles are out and about down that way. Oh, well. Maybe next year.

[danscope]

Ah !!!! Bugs build character . :)

[ABR.]

Well, that explains me, then.

[danscope]

Looks like a lot of rain and wind comming soon to the east coast. Tough on crops and trees. It may just hit us here in Rhode Island.
Dan

[Buttercup]

Looks like a lot of rain and wind comming soon to the east coast. Tough on crops and trees. It may just hit us here in Rhode Island.
Dan

Saw your hurricane Irene thread; responded to it.

We had lightning to the north last evening, 9:00 p.m. Seemed nothing was going to come of that, then bright white lightning/thunder started up around 12:30 a.m. Don't know if we got any rain from it (fell back to sleep). Currently clear, sunny, refreshingly cool (probably 75 F).

The lightning here is of an intense, eye-hurting white brilliancy. The drapes over the bedroom window are drawn and heavy, and yet I often have to turn my back to the window or cover my eyes with a bit of blanket to keep from being reawakened by the flashes.

[nosbig5]

We are having a week-long frenzy of perfect weather. Bright blue skies, a few puffy clouds every now and then, temps getting up to the low 80s. Cool mornings 55-60. Cools off to the low 60s by 8pm, perfect for a nice campfire in the backyard.

[jamestox]

Current weather here is partly cloudy with some building cumulus, winds calm, 1023mb/30.2" and slowly rising, and 28.3/82 degrees, humidity about 50%.

[BigDon]

Yesterday we had our first warm weather! Almost ninty! Did so much yardwork up at the folks house I hurt myself and stayed inside all day today. :)

[Matej Velko]

It's pretty hot here in Croatia. 102.2F or 39C or 312K. No rain nor snow or what so ever. Only Sun without clouds. It' burning.

[jrkeller]

We had 2.5 inches of rain today in Houston. It has been a long time since we received that much rain in one day.

[Torsten]

I noticed frost on a field on my way to the woods this morning. It turned into a gorgeous, warm day.

[Gigabyte]

The weather that is threatening to show up in DC in a few days is a bit alarming. Same for NY City and related areas. I am so unhappy about it.

[Jim]

We had 2.5 inches of rain today in Houston. It has been a long time since we received that much rain in one day.

2.6" in my gauge... and I still did some watering.

The clouds and rain kept us below 100F for the first time this month, but we'll be back there today.

(Torsten and BigDon, you are now on my short list.)

[danscope]

Ah... just a beautiful day, blue skies,78° with a very light breeze . Going to play with my grand daughter and make waffles. All rigged for red and loaded for bear.
I'm on a hill with a walk-out basement so no flood danger. But along the coast.....not so much.
I guess it's going for New York City . The subways may take a hit. Not good .
Get prepared . Be safe.

Dan

[Solfe]

Annoying cloudy here. No rain yet.

[Buttercup]

Sunny. Beautiful blue sky. Temp probably 80 F. Calm.

[Fazor]

Bit cloudy. Weather.com says it's 77 outside, but I'm inside, working. I'd be perfect weather for fishing, but we got 2.6 inches of rain yesterday morning in the span of a single hour, and a similar but smaller storm the morning before, so the pond is flooded again, making it too muddy to go out there when young nieces are present.

[HenrikOlsen]

Denmark had green cloud thunder storms and I missed it because I was in Germany.:(

[danscope]

12:45 AM.....70° and humid . Wind....O most all day .

[Chuck]

Phoenix, Arizona just finished its hottest August on record. I can't complain since it was going to be some kind of hot anyway and the weather was killing people elsewhere. The high is forecast to be 111°F (about 44°C) on September 4 but cooler thereafter.

[Trebuchet]

It's Labor Day Weekend in the Great NorthWet and it's still nice. Something is wrong here! If this keeps up they'll have to rename the Bumbershoot festival!

[Trebuchet]

In a bit of a fog this morning. And it's not even Fogust any more.

Thinking back, we didn't have any summer in July this year. Everything must be a bit behind schedule.

[redshifter]

C'mon Treb, as a resident of the Pac NW, you know that Memorial Day weekend and Fouth of July are always lousy, and Labor Day weekend is always beautiful :)

I read that this 'heat wave' is supposed to last into next week! The nice thing about this warm weather so late in summer is that the sun goes down early enough that it cools down at night.

[danscope]

Light rain this afternoon, just in time for my golf league play-offs. Fun watching the water fly off the ball when you try to put. Those greens will be sah low . :) 62° , wind calm .

[Buttercup]

Have fun with the golf, danscope. :)

Cooler than average here, probably 82 F. Sunny, clear as a bell. Pretty day!

[danscope]

Hi Buttercup, Have you recieved "Any rain at all " ??? Gee......

[Buttercup]

Danscope, we've had recent rain; nice amounts. :) Our rainy season has been very good. Saturday night we had lightning and beautiful storm clouds in the Northwest to Northern skies. An area very closeby received a downpour of rain that night.

Currently there's a lull. We're to have mostly clear skies the next 3 days, and then chances of rain again towards the weekend.

Basically I'm blissed that our temps are "cool" for this time of year. Usually Labor Day weekend is hotter than the blazes (as bad or worse than 4th of July). But yesterday's high was maybe only 87 F; and yesterday morning was a bit "nippy."

[danscope]

Good ! Definitely sounds better. :)

Dan

[Trebuchet]

C'mon Treb, as a resident of the Pac NW, you know that Memorial Day weekend and Fouth of July are always lousy, and Labor Day weekend is always beautiful :)

I read that this 'heat wave' is supposed to last into next week! The nice thing about this warm weather so late in summer is that the sun goes down early enough that it cools down at night.

Yeah, supposed to be near 90F this week. This weekend is the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, which I plan to attend for the first time and the next two are my pumpkin hurling events. It'd be nice if it doesn't rain too much for those.

ETA: Steve Poole just used the words "triple digits". I only remember that happening once around here, about this time of year in 2009.

[redshifter]

ETA: Steve Poole just used the words "triple digits". I only remember that happening once around here, about this time of year in 2009.

I remember that well. 103 I think was the high at Sea-Tac, 1st time since records were kept that the temp got above 100. I remember waking up at 3am and it was still 87 inside our house. The next day, I ordered a portable AC unit, and paid an extra 125 bucks to have it overnighted to us (no way was anyone going to find even a fan to purchase within about 75 miles of Seattle...). Best $ I ever spent!

[Trebuchet]

We were very fortunate that some of the folks taking care of my parents had an unused window AC, brought it out, and put it in for them. It made a tough time (my Dad passed just a short time later) a little easier. I also put up outdoor blinds to shade the western and southern windows.

[redshifter]

If the current weather pattern we're seeing in the Pac NW had occurred a couple months earlier, I wonder if temps would have hit triple digits? The sun would be a lot higher in the sky, and we'd have several more hours of heating. High 80's-low 90's in Sept. is extremely rare.

[ABR.]

It's been cooler down here in the Sierra Nevadas, too. I think we only had a couple triple-digit days all summer. Usually, we have weeks and weeks of them. When I see the lower electricity bill, I can't complain, though. It's going to be interesting to see what the rainy season has in store for us.

[Chuck]

The high for Phoenix for today is predicted to be 99°F, about 37°C. The heat wave is finally over.

[danscope]

Perfect weather for golf and such. Predicted temperature for tomorrow: 80° with a light breeze and a few fair weather clouds .
On to victory :)

[Middenrat]

Hurricane Katia's ghost is rattling its chains over the British Isles currently. Scotland has had a rough time with wind and rain, here in the lee of the Pennines gusts are 70-80mph. A fitting end to The Summer That Never Was.

[Lord Jubjub]

Houston is burning--literally. There is a massive fire in George Bush Park. This park is set in the Barker Reservoir which means several square miles of what used to wooded green space. That space is now brown. The fire is moving most eastward toward the berm. They are hoping the berm will contain the fire but it is possible it could leap the berm and get into the businesses and neighborhoods on the east side of the reservoir. Worst case scenario is if it reaches Buffalo Bayou unchecked. This area has been largely left wild and contains Hershey Park. If the fire spreads down Buffalo, there isn't much to stop it before it get downtown. There is another large park called Memorial that is heavily wooded just inside the 610 Loop that lies along Buffalo.

But, hey, they'll probably stop it before it leaps the berm.

[Trebuchet]

Our "heat wave" -- it was nearly 80F some days last week -- seems to have come to an end. Cool and cloudy today, but no precipitation.

[danscope]

Another great day. We had a whole lot of rain before, but it kept the fire danger low. Prayers for dry Texas.

[Buttercup]

Last night, between 11:00 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., a rip-roaring violent thunderstorm passed through. It woke husband up (who is a bit hard of hearing from an injury). Vicious lightning, loud peals and cracks of thunder. Rainfall was probably 20 minutes in duration. A house in a nearby city (55 miles) was struck by lightning and caught fire; fortunately minimal damage despite that, and only to the roof.

Meanwhile, I slept through the entire thing!

Was "news" to me via husband upon awakening. Generally I'm a light sleeper, but last night apparently was dead to the world...

[jrkeller]

Sunny, hot (95) and fairly dry. Dry for Houston that is.

[danscope]

Sounds like my 'prayers ' were answered. Glad you didn't get struck, just wetted down some. :)

Best regards,
Dan

[Buttercup]

Sounds like my 'prayers ' were answered. Glad you didn't get struck, just wetted down some. :)

Best regards,
Dan

Thanks Dan. Still surprised I slept through it all; especially as I sleep near a partially-opened window.

Hopefully more rain to come. I think our water levels are where they should be. It's just nice having a change of pace; some people would never believe this, but hot and sunny can become terribly monotonous. :hand:

Currently there are bits of white cloud about, but mostly sunny. Still/calm. Temp probably 82 F. Low humidity, probably 15%.

[redshifter]

Our "heat wave" -- it was nearly 80F some days last week -- seems to have come to an end. Cool and cloudy today, but no precipitation.

Yep, I think last week was it for summer...the transition from the nice days of July-August always seems to happen so quickly...a few days of cool, cloudy, marine air and then we're out of the 'consistently nice' pattern until next July.

The sad thing is I'm trying to stain my deck (after weeks of sanding), now I have to worry about rain. None so far, but the clouds are hanging around and looking ominous.

[danscope]

Hi, Nice weather ,41 deg this am.......and oh...by the way.....It's a BOY !!!! My Daughter has an 8 pound 10 oz baby boy at 3 PM yesterday. Doing well.
Celine and I are over the moon . Taking care of my 2yr old grand daughter the weekend. I'm going to get one of those tee shirts: "LIFE IS GOOD" ! :)
One more golfer in the family and someone to inherit my tools. :)

Best regards, Dan

[Buttercup]

Hi, Nice weather ,41 deg this am.......and oh...by the way.....It's a BOY !!!! My Daughter has an 8 pound 10 oz baby boy at 3 PM yesterday. Doing well.
Celine and I are over the moon . Taking care of my 2yr old grand daughter the weekend. I'm going to get one of those tee shirts: "LIFE IS GOOD" ! :)
One more golfer in the family and someone to inherit my tools. :)

Best regards, Dan

Awww. :) Congratulations! :)

[Lord Jubjub]

IT'S RAINING IN TEXAS!!! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Ok, I'll calm down.

I was working in a windowless lab this morning when I heard a sudden roar from above. It was a sound I hadn't heard in months. The sound of rain hitting the roof of the building.

Had to race outside to roll my car windows up. Hadn't expected this until at least tomorrow. I hope we get more rain tomorrow.

[Buttercup]

IT'S RAINING IN TEXAS!!! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Ok, I'll calm down.

I was working in a windowless lab this morning when I heard a sudden roar from above. It was a sound I hadn't heard in months. The sound of rain hitting the roof of the building.

Had to race outside to roll my car windows up. Hadn't expected this until at least tomorrow. I hope we get more rain tomorrow.

Yay!!! :clap: :o

And yesterday I saw a headline that an area of Texas had gotten rain.

Sure hope ya'll get more...and MORE!

I've got lots of family in Texas, so have been hearing first-hand how dire the situation has been.

[redshifter]

Well, it's officially fall here in the NW. Cool, cloudy, rainy. If you Texans really want rain, come up here for the next...9 mos. Oct-June is the Seattle Rain Festival, or as we like to call it; 'liquid sunshine'.

[jokergirl]

http://joker.mirar.org/P/m/fotojunk/DSC00815.JPG

Apparently the best autumn weather this season is in Shanghai. Me, flying a kite in the fantastic kiting weather we had on Sunday. Warm, but not hot, and the wind had blown all the moisture in the air away. Lovely!

;)

[Trebuchet]

Well, it's officially fall here in the NW. Cool, cloudy, rainy. If you Texans really want rain, come up here for the next...9 mos. Oct-June is the Seattle Rain Festival, or as we like to call it; 'liquid sunshine'.

Sun is shining here in Everett!

[redshifter]

Supposed to be mostly sunny and 70's to perhaps even 80 again this week. Wow!

[Trebuchet]

Supposed to be mostly sunny and 70's to perhaps even 80 again this week. Wow!

Wow indeed. Even looks nice for my next pumpkin event Friday and Saturday.

[Chuck]

101°F (about 38°C) at 4:00 PM.

[baskerbosse]

28°C at 10 am (clear with bushfire haze..)

[Trebuchet]

It's gone cloudy and a bit drizzly here in the NorthWet, contrary to predictions. Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow and Saturday.

[nosbig5]

1541315412After heavy flooding here in PA 2 weeks ago, it has been raining for last 2 days and will continue through the weekend. Flood warnings are in effect through Sunday.

[Chuck]

The high today is forecast to be 106°F (about 41°C). I guess no one told the weather gods that summer is over.

[redshifter]

Summers holding on here in the Pacific NW a little while longer. Higher than normal temps (forcast high today of 78, 80 tomorrow, a good 10-12 degrees above average) and very high humidity. Right now at 10 am it's 70 degrees with 78% humidity. It's downright uncomfortable, and certainly not what we're used to around here...I'll take the temps, but I can do without the humidity. I'm glad it's not warmer or the humidity would be oppressive.

[rigel]

Rin all weekend, and possible flooding.

[Trebuchet]

Very nice here today, although a bit on the windy side for the hurling of pumpkins. (Tomorrow, Skagit River Park in Burlington, WA. Be there or be square!)

[danscope]

Nice for late September. It made 78° but quite humid. We will take it :)

[Buttercup]

Beautiful sunny (and somewhat hot) autumn day became a cool and clear lovely twilight. :) Temp about 30 minutes after sundown is probably a balmy 80 F. Deep orange sunset sky with royal blue above; first flush of stars. :)

[Hellobozos]

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[Trebuchet]

Absolutely glorious yesterday, and the pumpkins were flyin'. A little rain over night. Who cares?

[TheOncomingStorm]

a bit overcast and some drizzle. Just about to go out and I think one of my neighbors just got a hunting license or just likes practicing today.

[danscope]

Been warm. 78° today, overcast with the odd shower. Calm. No complaints. Colder weather must be close on our heels...no doubt.

Dan

[Buttercup]

Mostly sunny. Quite a few small puffy clouds. Calm. Temperature probably 85 F. Beautiful autumn day. Bought some new autumn-colored blouses today, to expand my wardrobe. Life is good!

[redshifter]

Awesome weather yesterday and today, esp. for this time of year! 75 F and sunny right now (a good 8 - 10 degrees above average), more of the same tomorrow. We get a reality check next week though when it's supposed to get back into the high 50's/low 60's and cloudy with showers.

[Lord Jubjub]

Hot and Dry until this afternoon. The highs this week were around 35c-37C (95F-100F) but this afternoon severe thunderstorms are sweeping the area. It's currently 22C (72F) and we are awating a chain of storms to pass through.

[HenrikOlsen]

Today we have the first summer day (defined as temperature above 25C (77F)) ever recorded for October (measured since 1891), which means it's also a record for latest summer day ever recorded.
Temperature peaked at 25.5C.

[baskerbosse]

Rain windy & nighttime thunderstorms in Sydney..

[Buttercup]

Mostly sunny. Some high wispy clouds. Temp a nice 75 F. Calm, no breeze. Humidity probably 12%.

[Strange]

Have you seen that film The Day The Earth Caught Fire?

[HenrikOlsen]

Updated temperature high for yesterday: 26.9°C, previous record for October was 24.1°C.

Plants think it's spring and are putting out new leaves and some are starting to blossom.

[LaurelHS]

Grey, chilly, might rain soon. Mother Nature wants to remind us Ontarians that fall has officially arrived.

[captain swoop]

Yesterday was just about our hottest day of the year. We wnt to Scarborough for the day and couldn't believe the weather for 1st October. Today there is some overcast and drizzling rain showers.

[Trebuchet]

I saw on TV this morning that they were predicting a high of 86 in my old home town of Billings, MT. That reminded me that Autumn was often very nice there -- what used to be known as "Indian summer. That usually occurred after some early snow in September. I can actually remember marching in the snow with the high school band at the first football game of the season -- on the 30th of August!

[Solfe]

Endless drizzle. I do like the color grey, but some variation would be nice.

[Trebuchet]

Endless drizzle. I do like the color grey, but some variation would be nice.

You just described 3/4 of a normal year in these parts. This year has not been all that normal.

[Solfe]

Oh, are you in Forks for a reason? :)

[ABR.]

The first rain of October here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Here on the West Coast, along with the fall rains, will come the rain beetles. From southern California to Washington, these scarab-like beetles live as grubs underground most of their lives. When the first soaking rains occur, the males emerge and take flight. They have enough energy to fly for about 2 hours in search of the flightless, lemon-scented females. The males are often attracted to porchlights or even lighted windows so if you hear something go bump-bump-bump in the early evening or pre-dawn, it could be a rain beetle.

[Buttercup]

Late yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I took a 1-1/2 hour nap (wasn't feeling well). Awoke to what seemed a continuing sunny day, but this was misleading; going outdoors showed the sun to be now shining through a large part in some dark stormclouds stretching from south to west. :) It was terrific awakening to a brewing storm, with dark gray and light gray clouds. Soon with gold-orange flashes of lightning, and then sporadic rainfall stretching over many hours. Nice!

[danscope]

Gotta love some rain. I have soaking rain and 55° tonight.

Dan

[danscope]

Dry and cold; 42° and calm . Nice durring the days .

[ABR.]

The rain ended this morning here in NorCal after a nice hail storm last night. No rain beetles as yet, but I've heard they're already flying in the Los Angeles area.

[Trebuchet]

Rain Beetles? Kindly expand on that, sounds interesting.

[HenrikOlsen]

Rain Beetles? Kindly expand on that, sounds interesting.
Post #2222 (http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/82546-Your-current-weather?p=1941270#post1941270) has a short explanation.

[TheOncomingStorm]

HAd frost this morning, just a shot across the bow from winter.

[Taeolas]

Yeah we had frost up here this morning too.

Of course that storm that skirted by us (hit PEI and Nova Scotia but missed inland NB) brought Snow to a lot of areas already. Granted they're higher elevations (Cobequid pass in NS for example), (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/10/06/ns-snow-cobequid-pass.html) but Old Man Winter's clearly getting ready.

But not this weekend. After waking up to -1,-2 temperatures and a high of 11 today, we're shooting up to 22+ and sunny tomorrow for the Thanksgiving weekend.

I can't find the picture any more, but CBC had a fantastic shot of the storm surge going over the Canso causeway as a freight train was crossing. Wish I could find that again. :(

[Buttercup]

Day started sunny. Approximately 1-1/2 hours ago (currently 12:40 p.m. local time) rows of thick white-and-gray clouds rolled in from the west/northwest. Now is mostly cloudy. Temperature probably 80 F. A bit breezy. Nice day. :)

[Trebuchet]

Post #2222 (http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/82546-Your-current-weather?p=1941270#post1941270) has a short explanation.

Thanks, I missed that. Must be restricted to Eastern Washington where it's dryer, I've never heard of them around here.

[HenrikOlsen]

They'd try to emerge every other day all year round there. :)

[ABR.]

Thanks, I missed that. Must be restricted to Eastern Washington where it's dryer, I've never heard of them around here.

There are just a few records from southern Washington, all in Klickitat County, if I remember correctly. Otherwise, they range throughout Oregon and California and possibly into northern Baja. California has been fairly well investigated by now, but there are still new species being discovered. Just because of the cryptic nature of the group (only emerge during the rainy season and then only just after dark and just before dawn, the females are flightless and sometimes remain underground, etc.), much remains unknown. My current avatar is a picture of the local species, but if you'd like to see more pics, here is a link (http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=pleocoma)to a search on BugGuide. The only webpage devoted to rain beetles is down at the moment.

I caught my first rain beetles of the season this morning even though the rains stopped here about noon yesterday.

[redshifter]

Hmmm...I grew up in E wa--though not in Klickitat county. I don't recall seeing critters like that.

Weather here on the wet side of the state: Wet. And windy.

[Chuck]

It's 100°F (about 38°C) in Phoenix, Arizona. Or so it says on the news. I doesn't feel like it's that hot.

[Torsten]

-7C here this morning. I've had to scrape the frost off the windshield the last three mornings, and yesterday there were snow flurries where I was working. Beats cold rain though..

[danscope]

Been quite nice in southern New England; 60° F , sunshine , a few clouds and a light breeze . No complaints for fall .

Dan

[DoggerDan]

Hotter than I would have thought. Still using the A/C.

[danscope]

Well , just in time for nature's early insult. It's 31° F , blowing 20knots with heavy snow ! It's darned inconvenient. Our cat is deprived of his wandering.
And I should say that the roads are getting quite slippery. All this and it isn't yet Halloween. At least I still have power. Expecting 3 to 5 inches snow.

Dan

[swampyankee]

Along with danscope, I've been subjected to an October snow storm (well, we are less than 150 miles apart). I would not call the stuff that's accumulated on the ground "snow": it's slush. About 2 weeks ago we were having weather that was unseasonably warm. We seemed to have completely lost autumn -- almost all the trees still have green leaves, with no color change.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Add another victim of the strom we also got some sno it is like an inch or two at most at least it will be melt soon.

[ABR.]

Some light rain here in the North State today. It was enough to stir up the rain beetles at a locality to the north of here, but we probably need a good soaker to get local population up and flying.

[Torsten]

We've had a few overnight lows of -11C the last few days. It clouded over last night and now there's a bit of snow.

No matter how well I know that snow is coming, I am still not quite prepared to accept that another winter is upon me.

[Trebuchet]

Frost on the pumpkins this morning. And fresh snow on the nearby mountains.

And of course, since I mentioned pumpkins, they are flying in Delaware (http://www.punkinchunkin.com/) as we speak!

[danscope]

All hail the flying pumpkins!! :) Got 50° F and clear skies. Great viewing.

Dan

[starcanuck64]

Cold.

[Solfe]

I had an awesome weekend with the boys, warmish with crystal blue skies during the day and freezing cold nights to justify a raging camp fire.

[danscope]

Today , I have 62 degrees with a gentle breeze and clear skies. Tomorrow.... it's off for Epcot and the food and wine tasting festival as well as the master artisans festival. Low 80's there. perhaps a bit of golf...if you like that sort of thing. :)

Dan

[starcanuck64]

A bit warmer today, 5 C- 41 F, still no snow yet.