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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Weather Conditions Discussion => Topic started by: Bunty on March 14, 2024, 03:07:30 AM
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It will soon be the first day of Spring on the calendar, so time to start a change to new time of year weather thread.
Spring/Summer 2024
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This is why I have felt like crap this week.
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This anomalous beauty may give us more rain in a couple of days than we average in March and April combined. Been a good calendar year for rain so far, but ready for it to warm up as it drops into the 50's after the midday FROPA on Sunday. Not only, there's more progged, as we get another shot later in the week. :shock:
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=continental-w_conus-09-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=data
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Here it is, midday, April 1st, and it's 52F. Average, 80F. Also have had 0.66" of rain, creeping up on March and April rain average of 0.80" combined. Can't say I've seen this before here. No surprise, SPC has a 'moderate' risk for today and tomorrow from this little gem.
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A large part of Boulder County, Colorado and some surrounding areas are expected to have Xcel Energy do a preemptive power shutdown at 3pm MDT until at least noon tomorrow.
Expecting gusts in the 80mph-100mph range especially overnight. After the Marshall Fire in Dec 2021, everyone is being super cautious, and rightfully so.
Unfortunately, that means my station goes offline and I won't know what gusts I'm getting until power comes back and it syncs.
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Phillips County, KS...I have a Davis VP2 with anemometer mounted 22 feet and great southern exposure. Just recorded 67 and 71 mph southerly gusts. Been sustained in the 30-40 mph range. RH 14%, pressure falling 29.25". Visibility was down to 1/8th mile for a short period due to blowing dust. Forecast is another 12 hrs of this.
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Yuck! I guess I won't complain too much being 150 miles east of you. My weather station sits in a bit of valley with open area from the east to the west but the anemometer is about seven feet above the ground. There are hay bales and various pieces of farm equipment around. My peak wind guest was 47 MPH at 5:47 PM while the local airport at Marysville reported a peak of 49 MPH during that same period. Reasonably close.
Had a lot of smoke from a large fire that was in northern Riley county and then got into southern Marshall. I think all of the fire departments got paged out as it was reported south of the Valley Heights school between Blue Rapids and Waterville, KS. Right now the wind is SW at about 5 to 10 MPH. Plus we received 0.40" of desperately needed rain.
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A large part of Boulder County, Colorado and some surrounding areas are expected to have Xcel Energy do a preemptive power shutdown at 3pm MDT until at least noon tomorrow.
Expecting gusts in the 80mph-100mph range especially overnight. After the Marshall Fire in Dec 2021, everyone is being super cautious, and rightfully so.
Unfortunately, that means my station goes offline and I won't know what gusts I'm getting until power comes back and it syncs.
I was reading about that this morning. Hope everything goes well for you.
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A large part of Boulder County, Colorado and some surrounding areas are expected to have Xcel Energy do a preemptive power shutdown at 3pm MDT until at least noon tomorrow.
Expecting gusts in the 80mph-100mph range especially overnight. After the Marshall Fire in Dec 2021, everyone is being super cautious, and rightfully so.
Unfortunately, that means my station goes offline and I won't know what gusts I'm getting until power comes back and it syncs.
I was reading about that this morning. Hope everything goes well for you.
I did get power cut off for about 27 hours but no big deal. Boredom, mainly!
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Some pretty nasty couplets in north TX, OK, and south KS. Looks to be a busy day.
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I hope our members in Nebraska and Iowa made it through last night's tornados ok. Some devasting pictures from out there.
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Also as CW2274 posted some nasty storms going on today. Doesn't look good.
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So far, Stillwater has been on the fringes of the worst storms but barely. This afternoon signs of a tornado were detected on radar south of Stillwater. But sirens weren't sounded. However, visible signs of a tornado were spotted on the far north edge of Stillwater. Then the sirens were sounded then even though the storm had just passed. More strong storms are expected later tonight with a flood watch as well as tornado watch underway. If the storm rain trains, there's risk of flooding. Along I-44 is speculated to be a prime area for it, if that happens. Hopefully, not much sun today is keeping things from getting worse.
(https://data.prod.mesonet.org/data/nids/maps/realtime/Oklahoma.MosaicBREF.png?cache_bust=1691479459890)
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More strong storms are expected later tonight with a flood watch as well as tornado watch underway.
You still have the dry line to deal with in the western part of the state.
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Lots of wind in storms last night. My Davis VP2 caught this gust. (SPC)
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It has been brutal for tornados already this year.
We know more are on the way.
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It has been brutal for tornados already this year.
We know more are on the way.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html
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It's been a long time since we've had a negatively tilted trough. Sounds like SPC has mulled over bumping this to "high" risk. Guess tomorrow will tell.
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=global-northamerica-09-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=data
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Correction...today.
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It sounds like it is going to blow up today. Ick.
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What the NWS in Norman has to say on X about the today's weather situation. Interesting point made: They are not expecting clouds or cap to prevent storm development this afternoon or evening.
https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787508862515613976/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1787508862515613976/photo/1)
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Should be a chasers dream today, since the storms are progged to mostly be individual supercells, not associated with a "line" per se. Easy to see. Also means they can't draw energy from one or the other and can truck along unimpeded in that sense.
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Should be a chasers dream today, since the storms are progged to mostly be individual supercells, not associated with a "line" per se. Easy to see. Also means they can't draw energy from one or the other and can truck along unimpeded in that sense.
there are a lot now
https://www.severestudios.com/livechase/
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Haven't seen this before! Going to the favorites list. Thanks!
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Heading into autumn/winter here.
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Thankfully, the storm that came through here Monday night during a tornado watch only featured two very heavy downpours. The second one peaked at 15.34" per hour. I don't recall seeing it that high before. It didn't last long. The longer lasting peaks were 4 to 6.5". Rain total was 2.09". There was no hail or high wind. Lightening apparently knocked out a transformer on the north side of town and caused power outage there. Just a flicker here.
Elsewhere, some Oklahoma towns didn't fare as well. An isolated storm that started forming just to the southeast of Stillwater as pictured below greatly intensified as it moved northeast and dropped down a tornado in Barnsdall and Bartlesville. The Barnsdall tornado happened not long before it collided with a squall line to the west. Once absorbed by it just outside Bartlesville, the tornado quickly faded away. Damage was substantial on the south side of Bartlesville. Thankfully, its unique downtown was spared. That is where famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper is built.
One person was killed in Barnsdall. One missing. The town has around 1000 people. 25 people had to be rescued from their homes. At least an EF-3 tornado. Aerial view of Barnsdall by KOTV-6 Tulsa: https://www.newson6.com/story/663a406314116d0646bdee10/aerial-view:-tornado-damage-in-barnsdall-debris-scattered-along-bird-creek (https://www.newson6.com/story/663a406314116d0646bdee10/aerial-view:-tornado-damage-in-barnsdall-debris-scattered-along-bird-creek)
(https://stillwaterweather.com/photos/storm562024.jpg)
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Here is video footage of the Bartlesville tornado from the entrance of the Hampton Inn. When the tornado arrived, he got too scared and had to run inside.
https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1787712309332177044?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet (https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1787712309332177044?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet)
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Good stuff! I'm just wondering why the siren (almost as terrifying as the storm, IMHO) cuts off with the power. Or was it physically taken out at the exact same time as the power outage? Doubtful. Point being, ya think it'd be battery powered.
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Another bad one in MO today