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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Weather Conditions Discussion => Topic started by: DRoberts on March 03, 2020, 09:57:59 PM
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Haven't see the annual thread yet. One of my favorites. Could I offer up the 2020 thread without appearing to be too presumptuous for a relatively new guy ? Here it is March already. Pretty soon the leaves will be bursting out all over. Even in Minnesota. :grin:
Our CWA NWS storm spotters meeting is tomorrow night.
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too soon.
we have snow on the ground. But it is patchy. Warmth this week may burn most of it off. Just to show what the voles did to my yard.
I know we have at least two more good snows in us here.
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too soon.
we have snow on the ground. But it is patchy. Warmth this week may burn most of it off. Just to show what the voles did to my yard.
I know we have at least two more good snows in us here.
We don't get the vole tracks under the snow here because we rarely have snow cover that lasts that long; however, I am familiar with them. It is looking like an early spring for us. 61 F with a Red Flag right now.
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too soon.
we have snow on the ground. But it is patchy. Warmth this week may burn most of it off. Just to show what the voles did to my yard.
I know we have at least two more good snows in us here.
We don't get the vole tracks under the snow here because we rarely have snow cover that lasts that long; however, I am familiar with them. It is looking like an early spring for us. 61 F with a Red Flag right now.
The ground is still pretty much covered with snow here, but some grassy spots are showing up. I spotted this little vole playground when I took the dog for a walk today.
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Thanks for getting this going DRoberts thought about it but have been preoccupied the last few days.
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Might START thinking spring in another month or so. ](*,)
Mark
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Well we do " Spring " Forward this weekend :shock: :lol: :lol: Sunday , March 8 2020 [tup]
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Snow flurries today. Will not accumulate
projected 60 on Sunday.
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What is winter? It was pretty non-existent in southern New England this year. Had a 70º day in January, already hitting 50s and 60s on a regular basis. Nothing on the ground to melt. Just about every storm was snow to mix to rain, or in the opposite direction.
I went to a spotter refresher class last night and the met who taught it was all excited when he moved here a couple years ago (from TN via WA) to experience New England winters. He's bummed that we've had two duds. I told him we got 10 years of snow in 2015 so it'll be a while...
Go a few hundred miles north, though.... And apparently it's a thing that when we have a non-winter, Newfoundland gets clobbered.
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Large areas of KS, NE, and Plains under Red Flag today. Our winds have been gusting 40-45+ all afternoon. This attachment shows smoke from a fire in Beaver Co, OK this afternoon. Way above normal temperatures and fairly dry air don't help.
This fire has affected 10,000 acres. Other smaller fires in KS and NE today as well.
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Tweet from the NWS Duluth office today:
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Welcome to spring, Randy
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Its that time of year for occasional blizzard right during the calving season on cue. We may actually be too far north and only get an inch or two. Storm started tracking south on models as soon as warnings went up :oops:. 1/4" of rain has fallen so far.
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Ended up with 2.5" snow with lots of blowing. We've had much worse but it did fill in some of the corona boredom.
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Interesting development. Tonight, strong storms have formed in western Kansas and expected to move southeast to northern Oklahoma. Stillwater is on track to get one of the heaviest amounts with 1.13" We'll see.
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Interesting development. Tonight, strong storms have formed in western Kansas and expected to move southeast to northern Oklahoma. Stillwater is on track to get one of the heaviest amounts with 1.13" We'll see.
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To no surprise of my own, the projected rain amount for Stillwater was well off. The only rain amounts just over an inch were at a couple of places near the Kansas border. That much extra rain isn't sorely missed, since March average for rain has been surpassed, now at 3.85" here. Finally several days of sunny weather returns.
However, predicted amount for Oklahoma City was spot on and some other sites, interestingly enough.
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End of March is approaching and we are down about 1 inch in normal precipitation here. I have .83 in my station, normal 1.80. March is the beginning of our "wet" months. System is supposed to come through this weekend, but it seems central Nebraska is in the bullseye at the present time. I should make a sacrifice to the rain gods for a nice half inch or more for my location. Anyone have a spare chicken? (no offense intended here)
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End of March is approaching and we are down about 1 inch in normal precipitation here. I have .83 in my station, normal 1.80. March is the beginning of our "wet" months. System is supposed to come through this weekend, but it seems central Nebraska is in the bullseye at the present time.
We are getting a little rain today, just over a tenth of an inch so far. The forecast suggested a touch of snow, but the temperature has remained in the mid-30s. We also have a shot at some rain this weekend when that system comes through. I see that there are red flag warnings today extending from Eastern New Mexico through the Panhandles and up into your area. Hoping this weekend’s system will give us all a good soaking.
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Warmest day of the year, 85F for me, but not gonna last with the trough moving through tomorrow. However, progged to push 90F later next week. Triple digits just around the corner.
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Hoping for a brutal heatwave with high humidity soon. Houston is already getting warm too. Hotter the better this year. =D>
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9.2” of snow yesterday morning here in Leeds, Maine after what has been a very mild and snowless spring so far. Most of the snow has melted already however, with temps well into the 40’s the past two days.
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How did your maple syrup season go this year?
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How did your maple syrup season go this year?
It was a very good year, and for many it’s still going! We decided to pull the taps out last weekend as we’ve made enough to satisfy for a while.
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Hoping for a brutal heatwave with high humidity soon. Houston is already getting warm too. Hotter the better this year. =D>
Not so sure about the brutal part. :shock: But we need to have a decent thunderstorm season this year . Very little last year. I don't want severe, just nice rains, some wind, a bit of lightning. Anyone writing this down???
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Well, my thinking was heat may kill the virus. Lots of heat and humidity. This would be a great year for it.
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Well, my thinking was heat may kill the virus. Lots of heat and humidity. This would be a great year for it.
That would be good.
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Oklahoma City set a record high of 92 on Thursday. It was also 92 at my station.
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It looks like our spring green-up will be earlier than normal. . .
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https://www.usanpn.org/news/spring
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Here are some pictures I took 20120327 just south of I-80:
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(https://www.gwwilkins.org/temp-images/Billy_Wulf_at_Childrens_Zoo1.jpg)
Greening up in Spring is obviously variable!
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WOW, that looks like something you would see in May.
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The exif data will confirm the date. I took them on a bicycle ride.
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Yes, I wasn't questioning time of year it just looked like a wonderful warm spring to be that green. Different areas of country are almost summer-like already.
Still pretty brown with natural grass in NC Nebraska but starting to see more green in the lawns.
I was checking the frost line about the top 6" is thawed now but hard as rock any lower so sprinklers are still off.
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Sorry if I seemed terse. Was in a hurry.
Things aren’t nearly as far along here this Spring either. I was just illustrating how ‘average’ isn’t normally what we experience, i.e. it isn’t ‘normal’.
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Spring is struggling to arrive here in Northern Kansas. Town is always a week ahead of us out here.
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Here, I found something else we can worry about for a change.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
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Just saw footage from a still camera of a tornado going through Jonesboro, AR on TWC. Starts out fairly small, then by the time it leaves the frame, it's becoming a wedge. It was moving too.
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One of the quicker moving I've seen. Looked like it was scooting along at least 60 mph not giving much time to react. EF-3 is what I'm hearing on radar data.
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EF-3 is what I'm hearing on radar data.
Yeah, at least. I just saw the velocity loop and it formed a very distict couplet signature just as it moved through town. Yikes...
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saw those too. Yuck.
Meanwhile, here-rain-maybe snow tonight.
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March numbers are ridiculous down here. Currently at 6 degrees above mean and .06 for rain for the month. Have never seen a March this hot and dry before. It's weird to be running the AC this much in March. It's actually one of the best months weather wise with squall lines moving through and temps in 70's to low 80's. Todays forcasted high is 95.
The numbers are slightly skewered because I had a hardware failure for the first 4 days of the month.
Hopefully April will bring some decent weather. The long term GFS is hinting at that.
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The temperature here got up into the mid-sixties yesterday for the first time this Spring. My loft gets very warm and the heat propagates down into my great room which hit 75°, so I opened the motorized 4'x4' skylight in the loft along with cracking some windows on the main floor to allow air in and the warm air in the loft to exhaust. I soon began to detect an odor of something burning and thought it odd that people would be using their fireplaces on such a nice day.
Then I remembered that when I loaded my GRLevel3 with Allison House feed (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxgr3hanis-dbZ.php) somewhere before 6am that the last frame displayed a burst, and I mean burst, of fires in northern Kansas! Yup, it's that time of year when Kansas gifts its neighboring states with the foul detritus of their prescribed prairie burns. It's a necessary evil and preserves the land in a much more natural state like nature's prairie fires used to do, but I'll be glad when the season is over and I can open my home to the smell of Spring unadulterated by smoke. Fortunately I can see what's happening using my GRLevel3 images.
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I struggle springs around Valentine we have cedar trees everywhere they love the sand and grow fast so their pollen I've found is one of my worst allergies I didn't know I had. They haven't stated pollinating yet but soon it starts so can't open the house up and save a little electricity. The airhandler uses a 4" thick merv 11 filter so catches most all the pollen.
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Sudden surprise for the temperature being this cold in the afternoon forecast.
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:eek: 88F today for me.
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Randy, you have any leaves/buds that have broken dormancy there? We are seeing some here and they will get killed Thursday night and Friday. If memory serves me, this is the third spring in a row when trees/shrubs have been hit hard.
Last year, the trees here looked like they all had been sprayed with a herbicide. It was ugly.
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Randy, you have any leaves/buds that have broken dormancy there? We are seeing some here and they will get killed Thursday night and Friday. If memory serves me, this is the third spring in a row when trees/shrubs have been hit hard.
Last year, the trees here looked like they all had been sprayed with a herbicide. It was ugly.
Don't think so just looking at elm and cottonwood in backyard.
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:eek: 88F today for me.
[tup] Think heat, hotter the better.
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Hello from Greece and more specifically from Northwestern Macedonia. In recent days we have received heavy snowfall that has reached areas with zero elevation. Some pictures from Northern Greece.
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Very pretty. Is this unusual for you at this time of year?
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At 10 am light snow, the air is colder than advertised.
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And it has arrived hours ahead of prediction.
7:05 a.m. temp 53
9:05 temp 35
10:40 temp 32
Wind chills in the 20s
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As this spring system moves east into Minnesota, we are expecting periods of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow and ice before it moves out Friday. Right now, though, it’s 59 degrees and partly sunny here.
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Only 16F (-8.8C) for the daytime high today with flurries continuing into the night. We may get an inch of snow when it's over. The wind has been gusting into the 30 mph range so its like powder and blows off the road. West camera image.
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Very pretty. Is this unusual for you at this time of year?
No it's not rare enough. It snows once every four years. This is for the last 20 years which we have data.
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Today we cracked 70 F for the first time since Oct. 9th, 2019 (181 days). Spring is springing and all the social distancing will be tough to maintain.
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52 degree temperature range today. Low 35, High 87.
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Today-snow one second. Sun the next. No kidding.
Photographer said 2 minutes apart.
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[font=]Today-snow one second. Sun the next. No kidding. [/font]
Same here. Huge snowflakes!
Paul
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Today 58 and sunny
Sunday 5 inches of snow.
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Rain changes to snow around 11pm tonight. Current outlook
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Some nasty weather coming to the southern states tomorrow.
I hate hearing the term long distance grounded tornadoes.
Could be bad. :-(
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https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html
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Picked up 6 inches out of it. It started 10 pm last night with bands moving out of SW and is just winding down so 9 hrs of snow.
Back deck since snow stake camera was retired for the season due to not wanting to kill the green grass under snowboard.
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My snow stake will stay out until June ](*,)
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Mark
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I knew we were getting snow-so I put down early season pre-emerge crabgrass preventer.
Snow will melt fast.
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I knew we were getting snow-so I put down early season pre-emerge crabgrass preventer.
Snow will melt fast.
It's not too early, is it? I was wondering we have had some very warm days high 70's then a bunch of freezing cold down to 7f. Worried I might put it down too early. I found this online so guess I need to watch the temperatures. I really need to treat this lawn bad for crabgrass this year:
Crabgrass typically germinates when soil temperatures reach 62 degrees Fahrenheit at a depth of 1 or 2 inches. Crabgrass preventer should be applied when soil temperatures reach 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit. If you apply the herbicide too early in the spring, it may break down before the end of the germination cycle.
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I figured it was 70 the other day and 25 today...
ave 55. :grin:
I have gone too early and too late. ugh. didnt take a soil temp
But I have seen some dandelions emerging in others yards. So I figured it was a good time.
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I suppose I'll don an N95 mask :-( and head to the hardware store and pick some up soon. Don't want to be late for sure. Not much you can do once it goes to seed.
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I hate hearing the term long distance grounded tornadoes.
Could be bad. :-(
And so it seems to be coming to fruition, the watch is a PDS as well. Heads up folks...
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FREEZE WARNING. Down to an unusual 30 tonight for here. For a typical spring, the last freeze is during the first week of April.
What my FB friend Emily Sutton posted, a meteorologist for KFOR-OKC:
SNOW IN APRIL?
What we know:
*Snow is possible Monday night/Tuesday morning
*Models do not agree on placement
*Ground temps are warm so most of it won’t stick.
*Milk and bread are already off the shelves because of the pandemic so no need to get it?
Stay tuned for updates - is it a winter storm? No, it’s just nuts that we are even talking about snow in mid-April in Oklahoma!
Oklahoma counties in dark blue affect by Monday morning freeze warning:
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Getting a cool wet spring in Flagstaff
been one of the mildest winters and the snow pack has dwindled down to almost nothing
expecting a dry summer
keeping fingers crossed for low forest fires. I say low because there has never been a season with out a few to too many in Arizona.
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Snowing again. 3-4 inches on the ground. 60 by Saturday.
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Bright sunshine but cold for April only 29F with a stiff wind.
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Right now
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looks like the world is sideways..
and now sun
then snow
12:49 snow and sun.
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This just in from the NWS:
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville, IL
256 PM CDT Tue Apr 14 2020
.SHORT TERM...
252 PM CDT
Through Wednesday Night...
Mother nature is evidently neither satisfied with the winter season, nor paying attention to the date on the calendar, and
looks set to deliver a few more chances for snow to the area through the end of the week.
We a have been getting Snow/Sun showers all day, temps only in upper 30s. Might even see 3" snow overnite, but probably not. More chances on Thursday.
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Just saw this pic from the recent tornadoes in the south. Obviously they would have never survived without it. Classic EF4, if not 5 damage.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/04/1862/1048/MissStormShelter_1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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We only got 2" of snow overnite (not the 3" forecast) but everyone who is not sheltering in place early this morning were involved in a 54 car pile-up on the expressway between O'Hare Airport and downtown Chicago.
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YIKES!
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Just saw this pic from the recent tornadoes in the south. Obviously they would have never survived without it. Classic EF4, if not 5 damage.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/04/1862/1048/MissStormShelter_1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
If I lived in an area prone to strong tornadoes I would definitely invest in one of those.
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Just saw this pic from the recent tornadoes in the south. Obviously they would have never survived without it. Classic EF4, if not 5 damage.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/04/1862/1048/MissStormShelter_1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
WOW! Everyone in tornado-prone areas could use one of those. Have an area under stairwell but a EF-5 will take it down to the foundation.
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Just saw this pic from the recent tornadoes in the south. Obviously they would have never survived without it. Classic EF4, if not 5 damage.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/04/1862/1048/MissStormShelter_1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
WOW! Everyone in tornado-prone areas could use one of those. Have an area under stairwell but a EF-5 will take it down to the foundation.
I know I told this story here several years ago, but my dad lived in Bridge Creek, OK when the May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore EF5 missed his house by 1 mile. They had no shelter but that opened his eyes and immediately had one dug into the back yard. I believe that still holds the record for highest ever Doppler recorded wind speed of 301 mph.
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My back yard Marion IA April 17 2020
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Nice pic Alan. That looks cool.
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Beautiful, especially with the wet snow sticking to everything. It is mid April...right?
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Beautiful, especially with the wet snow sticking to everything. It is mid April...right?
Old man winter was thinking we just didn't have enough winter so is making up for it. :-)
What's funny this was one of the mildest winters for north central Nebraska as far as real cold no -20's below or even teens below so the brutal arctic air stayed around the north pole but we have now surpassed the old record since the station started in 2014 fast approaching 180 freeze days with currently 177 and 178 tomorrow.
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Beautiful, especially with the wet snow sticking to everything. It is mid April...right?
Old man winter was thinking we just didn't have enough winter so is making up for it. :-)
All I'm thinking (selfish as it is), is that this spring is turning out like last where trough after trough kept digging down the coast waaaaay after they should be and basically trashed our monsoon four corner high for the summer. By the time we recovered, the monsoon flow was all but history. :evil:
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Looks like Dixie Alley will be at it again today.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
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My part of Oklahoma is supposed to get the most rain by this Thursday. We'll see about that. Getting as much as 3.2" of rain would be welcome, since only .15" has fallen here during April, far below normal. Hopefully, rain can come without severe weather.
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I'll put some model predictions for Ok rainfall and you can see who was the most accurate 5 days out. The UKMET is really wet but different area of the state.
ECM
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Far below normal precip here for April. Month to date: .04"
I hope this isn't a trend.
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This is a good representation of what spring looks like here in northern KS as of 21 April. A bit late this year.
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This is a good representation of what spring looks like here in northern KS as of 21 April. A bit late this year.
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The scenery is much different in my part of Oklahoma. On Sunday, while traveling from Stillwater to Guthrie, I marveled at how much the grass and trees had turned from dead to green, since being on the same drive last winter.
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Hmm..Sky is clearing, temperatures shooting up towards 85 a county west, dew point a muggy 70.5, dryline/cold front barreling towards us, tornado watch issued as I type.....might get interesting here in Southern Oklahoma in a couple hours.
*Usually use the cellar across the street. How do you do social distancing in a cellar #-o
Doug
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You don't. You get to the shelter and forget the niceties of pandemic social distancing. :-)
Good luck!
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Ardmore hit the open slot! Red radar indicated tornado, magenta confirmed tornado. Yellow, severe TS.
Doug
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It didn't hit Ardmore, but it did Madill also in southern Oklahoma causing two deaths. A steel and wire plant was hard hit.
https://kfor.com/news/local/aftermath-of-deadly-tornado-in-madill/ (https://kfor.com/news/local/aftermath-of-deadly-tornado-in-madill/)
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94F today with triple digits expected in the new week. Burn baby, burn..
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OHP officials identify man who died after car hit by tornado in Madill: https://www.koco.com/article/ohp-officials-identify-man-who-died-after-car-hit-by-tornado-in-madill/32250553 Great brief video of tornado.
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Well, the highly generous rainfall estimate of 3.2" didn't pan out for my locality to no surprise of my own. I only got .91" with some small hail. The ECM map on the bottom wasn't real far off, though. But on the other hand, a few locations got more than predicted, such as Enid and Ponca City. The only locations that got over 3" was in a northwest county bordering on Kansas and in the south central part of the state not real far from where there was a tornado.
The worst weather predicted, which included tornadoes, was for the southern part of Oklahoma, which turned out accurate. If the low had tracked further north, like 100 miles, then Oklahoma City area would have caught the tornadoes.
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Somebody has to be getting the rain. We sure aren't.
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Our rainy season is coming. Roads are still flooded in areas from the high aquifer water levels from years of persistent heavy rain.
A list of roads still closed in Cherry county. https://kvsh.com/archives/11937
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
But you are a month behind reaching the first 90-degree day. Very unusual.
I still get the Phoenix news with my son's address and YTTV. :grin:
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
But you are a month behind reaching the first 90-degree day. Very unusual.
I still get the Phoenix news with my son's address and YTTV. :grin:
Yes, exactly. We're getting the whiplash treatment.
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Video of Madill Tornado. Tornado is initially believed to be at least an EF-2. Tornado caught man in car. He was thrown out and killed.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y73ZVT56Sz4&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Wow! That is one hell of a video.
That dude was way too close.
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Not even May yet..
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epac
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today was the greatest date.
https://youtu.be/-BNwiqDGz5g
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#-o :lol:
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it's a classic.
Next week-I have to go to school and move my station. They are doing roof work and I need to move it to the other side of the building. First time I will have have been at school since February.
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
I thought I read that not too long ago the aquafer was real low.
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
I thought I read that not too long ago the aquafer was real low.
Honestly, I couldn't say with conviction. However, I'm sure we could use any 'recharge' we can get. Water is something that should always be conserved here.
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
I thought I read that not too long ago the aquafer was real low.
Honestly, I couldn't say with conviction. However, I'm sure we could use any 'recharge' we can get. Water is something that should always be conserved here.
Sorry, that was meant for Randy. Quoted the wrong person.
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Yikes, after a cool-ish spring, we're now progged for 103F next Thursday, record for the date is 104F. We don't normally see our first triple digit day til about May 27.
I thought I read that not too long ago the aquafer was real low.
Honestly, I couldn't say with conviction. However, I'm sure we could use any 'recharge' we can get. Water is something that should always be conserved here.
Sorry, that was meant for Randy. Quoted the wrong person.
Well...go put your Browns helmet on and sit in the corner til you're really sorry...
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Well just had our 180th freeze day.
Big temperature swing day 78 forecast high.
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That's a big swing randy.
What is ya'll's largest swing in regards to temperature in one day?
A while back it was 31 in the morning and topped out at 70. So 39 degree's here.
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Not Randy, but here in northern KS, we have 40 degree range commonly. 50 is less common, but usually a few times a year. I may go back in my records and see if we have had 60 degree range. Cannot remember.
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Similar to Kansas 40 is common, 50 less but does occur a few times each year. The low was 30F so if we reach 80 today a 50-degree swing.
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The key ingredients to a wide diurnal temperature swing are of course a very low relative humidity and a cloudless sky.
You could even freeze to death in the Sahara desert at night...
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Oklahoma City has had such a wide range before that it set a record high and low on the same day. 83 and 17 on 11/11/11/. An interesting article about the subject here. https://www.weather.gov/ama/50ranges (https://www.weather.gov/ama/50ranges)
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Oklahoma City has had such a wide range before that it set a record high and low on the same day. 83 and 17 on 11/11/11/.
Talk about a neck breaker...wow.
40-45F diurnal swing is common place here except monsoon time, but we merely do it with dry air, no other large scale factor.
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Oklahoma City has had such a wide range before that it set a record high and low on the same day. 83 and 17 on 11/11/11/. An interesting article about the subject here. https://www.weather.gov/ama/50ranges (https://www.weather.gov/ama/50ranges)
That's impressive.
Don't know if you guys remember poster named Scalphunter. He was from Alaska. I remember him saying the temp ranges up there were ridiculous.
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Tuesday evening in central Oklahoma was a rough time for menacing mesocyclones to act up. They were notable for being large hail producers. In at least one case, hail was big enough to crash through a car rear window. Fortunately, my location stayed out of the powerful core parts of the storms and so hail here was only pea size with .16" rain. Some storms threatened to do worse. In at least one instance, a hook echo formed on radar in a matter of minutes near Guthrie and had meteorologists alarmed for a while. Fortunately, no tornadoes touched down in central Oklahoma.
Pictured is KFOR meteorologist Emily Sutton showing a picture of how big the hail was, and KWTV-9's copter photo of how the hook looked from it. It was quite an ominous looking, well knuckled wall cloud. It was at the time 35 miles southwest of me, fortunately not headed in my direction.
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Wicked looking, Bunty. Glad you missed it.
93 here today, but back to the low 70s tomorrow. We are developing a drought here in NW Kansas.
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Nice precipitation since midnight: .97" (.63" of that in less than 25 minutes)
Most precipitation in one storm since 1 January.
Very welcome around here.
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Nice precipitation since midnight: .97" (.63" of that in less than 25 minutes)
Most precipitation in one storm since 1 January.
Very welcome around here.
Know the feeling.
You can almost hear the woosh from the ground sucking it up.
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Red Flag Warning. Whole state of New Mexico. Must be really dry there.
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106F officially today, 107F for me. 104F was the old record from 1989...my first summer here. May even see some dry, high based T-storms in the new week. Great for watching, but bad for strong outflow winds and starting fires. 'Tis the season.
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Possibly our last front moving through tonight. 50's and 70's for a few days.
Hurricane season starts in 3 weeks.
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From the NWS, Chicago, this afternoon:
Through Tonight:
Breezy, fairly seasonable, and dry conditions will continue inland of the lake breeze until just prior to sunset. For inland areas, the brief spell of almost May-like weather will come to an abrupt end late tonight as a strong cold front sweeps across the area, setting the stage for the unseasonably cold stretch Friday-Saturday morning.
Model guidance has continued to trend south with light stratiform rain along baroclinic zone this evening through tonight, along with observational trends drier than previous solutions. Held onto PoPs primarily south of I-80, highest
along and south of US-24. Temperatures will steadily fall to the upper 30s to lower 40s toward sunrise Friday, with mid 30s possible far north.
I had a lawnmower that acted like this; pull, no start, pull, no start, pull, sputter, no start, pull, no start, pull, sputter, no start.
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frost warnings here too. Not a lot of tender plants out but there are a few in places.
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Late frost like this reminds me of helping neighbors cover young strawberry plants at night when the temperature dropped unexpectedly. Forecasting was not as advanced back then. A thousand plants. Using flashlights/lanterns, up and down the rows. Straw was all we had. Kids, moms, dads. Virginia in the 1950s. Makes a memory but probably wasn't real enjoyable then. :-)
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Frost warnings widespread here too. Not really late for us, however. The average last 6 years for me has been May 13 last frost. I had a frost yesterday morning. The mention of snow this late is a little concerning but only showers so far.
Monday
A chance of snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 8am and 9am,
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Cold snap..only 105F today. :-P
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Cold snap..only 105F today. :-P
Just happened to walk by the TV last night when the local weather was on. He had a national map up with temps. He pointed to Phoenix at 105 and just shook his head. :-)
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If Oklahoma City gets down 40 tonight, it will tie a record low set in 1923.
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Cold snap..only 105F today. :-P
Just happened to walk by the TV last night when the local weather was on. He had a national map up with temps. He pointed to Phoenix at 105 and just shook his head. :-)
"Normally" PHX is about 4F warmer than we are but the ridge was to the south along with the greater "height and thickness" so they were spared a bit.
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Springtime variety here. Over today and tomorrow we have a freeze warning, near critical fire weather because of low humidity and windy conditions, followed by a forecast for a little accumulating snow Saturday night.
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MAYHEM IN MAY! Bomb cyclone attacks with polar vortex in eastern United States. Film at eleven............
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MAYHEM IN MAY! Bomb cyclone attacks with polar vortex in eastern United States. Film at eleven............
Slow!!
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This in from the NWS:
Mother Nature appears poised to make weather volatile and generally unpleasant to be outdoors for Mother`s across the area today.
Fairly compact, but quite vigorous, shortwave trough and associated closed mid-upper level low will track across the region
today bringing various forms of inclement weather including, strong winds, gusty showers with perhaps some graupel (mushy hail), crashing temps near the lake, some lakeshore flooding again, and perhaps some wet snowflakes.
The swarm of locusts will be coming tomorrow along with the ongoing pestilence!
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We fell to 25F along with an 8-hour long freeze overnight. It worried me enough at 4 am I turned the sprinkler header water off.
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MAYHEM IN MAY! Bomb cyclone attacks with polar vortex in eastern United States. Film at eleven............
Slow!!
Hope everything is well down there and that you're surviving the virus thing. :)
We had a low of 34F this morning. I have some tomato plants, but I haven't set them out yet. USUALLY, tax day or April 15th marks the end of frosts here and is safe for setting out young plants. This year, delay saved me some money.
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We fell to 25F along with an 8-hour long freeze overnight. It worried me enough at 4 am I turned the sprinkler header water off.
4 hours of 32 and below. Low overnight 29. Late for us to be this cold.
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MAYHEM IN MAY! Bomb cyclone attacks with polar vortex in eastern United States. Film at eleven............
Slow!!
Hope everything is well down there and that you're surviving the virus thing. :)
We had a low of 34F this morning. I have some tomato plants, but I haven't set them out yet. USUALLY, tax day or April 15th marks the end of frosts here and is safe for setting out young plants. This year, delay saved me some money.
Doing fine down here just board as hell.
Was thinking about ya when all those tornado's went through Tennessee. My company had a plant up there that was leveled.
You need to come around more.
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Doing fine down here just board as hell.
Was thinking about ya when all those tornado's went through Tennessee. My company had a plant up there that was leveled.
You need to come around more.
First there was the middle TN tornadoes. That was a really bad situation and a long-lived tornado. It had a long path and was really wide in places. I think TVA had to replace something like 38 of those big metal towers for the high voltage lines.
Then Chattanooga dodged a bullet. Where it hit, it wiped it out. But it was mainly east of town and mainly hit residential areas. It's heartbreaking to watch it on the news.
Where was your company's plant that was leveled?
Working in a powerhouse, I'm considered a vital person, so I've been tied up with work. Then I started with YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. And so it goes..........
My Vue is still hanging in there. I'm still using WUHU. It works, so I'm not changing it.
I do need to check in more. Thanks for asking.
Hurricane season is almost upon us, so I'll be watching more closely.
Take care.
Greg :)
Then add this virus stuff in the mix and
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LOL, Stillwater once again to get the most rain in Oklahoma this time now through early Sunday morning. Maybe meteorologist Emily Sutton thinks it's funny. The most violent weather slated for now to be in the southern part of the state as conditions transition from the unusually cool March weather of the past several days to warm normal May spring weather.
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Looks like May 10th will be our last freeze day 25°, happens to be last years same date and temperature 25°. What are the odds of that? Recorded 183 days of 32° (0c) or below this season. Near 90° in the forecast next week.
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LOL, Stillwater once again to get the most rain in Oklahoma this time now through early Sunday morning. Maybe meteorologist Emily Sutton thinks it's funny. The most violent weather slated for now to be in the southern part of the state as conditions transition from the unusually cool March weather of the past several days to warm normal May spring weather.
Are you building an ark? :shock:
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LOL, Stillwater once again to get the most rain in Oklahoma this time now through early Sunday morning. Maybe meteorologist Emily Sutton thinks it's funny. The most violent weather slated for now to be in the southern part of the state as conditions transition from the unusually cool March weather of the past several days to warm normal May spring weather.
Are you building an ark? :shock:
LOL, may not have to. Rainfall estimates for Stillwater have been greatly downgraded with +4" amounts moved elsewhere:
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As it turned out in the real world, the rainfall amounts predicted weren't generally far off base in much of the southeast quarter of the state, along with part of the northeast, but were well off in my part of the state, the north central. A large part of the southwest got much more rain than forecast.
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We've got some heavy rainfall on the way here - pesky upper level low. They're quite a challenge to forecast.
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There's an upper level low forming in the area and it's going to get stalled by that storm coming up the east coast, so it's going to be a wet few days. Wouldn't you know it? I have the days off, so of course it has to rain. :(
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What's wrong with this? I know what's wrong the ambient temperature reads +2° high so it alters the humidity to read low.
The KVTN ASOS continues to be globally warmed +2f so we never experience any RH above 93% and I mean never. Its been like this for a couple of years now. Ice storms that never reach freezing is another phenomena with the KVTN ASOS at Valentine.
I checked other ASOS in the area Broken Bow reached 100%, North Platte reached 100% without fog but we continue to read-only 93% no matter how dense or long the fog event last like today over 4 hours extremely dense where you could barely see across the road.
Visibility even got to zero once the negative reading I highlighted. I also highlight the RH column for reference.
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It's been a pretty wet few days in my area from this pesky cutoff upper level low. Not gonna lie - cutoffs are tough to forecast - they bobble 50 miles one way, and it can really bust a forecast. So far, forecasts for this one have gone alright, but it's not easy! Most areas saw 1-2" of rain yesterday, which has caused a few high water spots. Thankfully nothing too crazy like over in Midland, MI from the dam failure yet - although the Roanoke, VA area seems to have gotten hit pretty hard.
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It's been a pretty wet few days in my area from this pesky cutoff upper level low. Not gonna lie - cutoffs are tough to forecast - they bobble 50 miles one way, and it can really bust a forecast.
Yeah, you guys don't get to see them much back east, and this one has really hung around too. They're fairly common out here in the SW, especially in the colder months. You know the saying "A cutoff low is a weatherman's woe"...
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In this video link, the Stillwater Emergency Management Director takes a look at wind damage in Stillwater, mostly to trees, from a severe storm that happened early Friday morning. Gusts were up to 60 mi. in town. Wind gusted to 34.5 mi at my house. The only sign of damage was some twigs in my front yard from a large pin oak tree. Interesting point at 16:55, stroke a lightning before coming up to big tree down across half of 12th Ave. Good thing it didn't fall on house.
https://stillwaterweather.com/severestormmay22-20 (https://stillwaterweather.com/severestormmay22-20)
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It's been a pretty wet few days in my area from this pesky cutoff upper level low. Not gonna lie - cutoffs are tough to forecast - they bobble 50 miles one way, and it can really bust a forecast.
Yeah, you guys don't get to see them much back east, and this one has really hung around too. They're fairly common out here in the SW, especially in the colder months. You know the saying "A cutoff low is a weatherman's woe"...
No doubt - definitely underestimated the amount of sunshine we'd have here being directly under the cutoff low today - but these are things I always write down for next time (and thankfully I haven't done a forecast since Monday, so no harm on my accuracy at the station 8-) )
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I blinked and missed spring.
May 9, 3:55 am - 27.7 F
May 24, 5:15 pm - 90.1 F
This spell of July weather should end on Thursday evening. #-o
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Welcome to meteorological summer. And it will feel like it here. 95 predicted.
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Downburst about 2 miles from me.
https://www.facebook.com/floridapolicescanner/videos/611034589765628/
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Another comment from the NWS in Chicago:
Meteorological Summer kicked off only yesterday and we will feel it today with lower 90s for peak afternoon temperatures with high confidence. This will be at the daily record high level for Chicago today.
Today`s record daily high in Chicago is actually the lowest daily record high in all of Meteorological Summer. It has a fairly good chance to be reached this afternoon given the forecast setup.
June 2 Record High Years
Chicago 92 1944, 1895
MTF
I wonder where spring went?
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Officially made it to 94 so far. My station got to 95.2 at 5:30 pm, highest since Sept., 10, 2019. The usual storms coming thru overnite, should moderate temps.
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Downburst about 2 miles from me.
https://www.facebook.com/floridapolicescanner/videos/611034589765628/
Whoa! Impressive. Thanks for sharing.
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Thursday was the first day it really felt summer is here with a high of 97. Normal is 84. It was good that the latest track on Tropical Storm Cristobal has taken a slight westward bend from nearly straight north. Maybe it will end up cooling things off for a while.
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Quite a nice little hot spell for the center of the country. Wonder if it will affect covid 19? NWS Hastings thinks this may be the warmest beginning to June since the 1930s for this area.
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We had one short round of heat and humidity, but the past few days have been pretty nice. The abnormally dry or moderate drought conditions in the western and central parts of the state are a concern. With today’s sunny and windy weather, a fire weather advisory statement has just been issued.
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4.91 yesterday courtesy of the eastern flank of Cristobal. Just a couple miles to my west they are pushing 14 inches the past 2 days. The rainy season is here!
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4.91 yesterday courtesy of the eastern flank of Cristobal. Just a couple miles to my west they are pushing 14 inches the past 2 days. The rainy season is here!
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Way things are going here, we will be lucky to get 14" in the entire year.
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4.91 yesterday courtesy of the eastern flank of Cristobal. Just a couple miles to my west they are pushing 14 inches the past 2 days. The rainy season is here!
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Way things are going here, we will be lucky to get 14" in the entire year.
Too bad Cristobal won't take a a more westerly approach.
Summer arrived at 2:30 today. DP-80. Humidity-80. Four and a half months of sticky, sweaty weather to come. :-)
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This is going to be a nasty storm!
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Hey Greg.
Went by your place the other day. Picked up my brother in Scottsboro on my way to Cleveland.
Forgot how nice mountains look. So used to flat Florida.
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Yep, you were in the neighborhood. We're about 20 nw of Cleveland on Watts Bar Lake. Yes, it is quite hilly here. I'm wanting to go out west where they have big mountains. Hoping for my retirement soon and think about a travel trailer and spending several months out there (maybe next spring).
I've been watching Nick Zentner's live streams about northwest geology and have become fascinated by it. There's other places on the bucket list, as well.
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Edit, that was Cleveland, Ohio not Cleveland, Tennessee. :grin: But we did stop in Cleveland,TN for some breakfast.
Know what you mean about out west. When I was 13 we took a trip out there. Halfway through Kansas on a clear day you could begin to see the Rocky's. When we finally got to them I was like holy crap!
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Hoping the models are overdoing this. Doesn't sound good for trees among other things.
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At least you will get some rain. Could do without those wind gusts though.
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Lowest barometer pressure 29.34 this morning. For a June low pressure, that has got to be very unusual for the Plains. More like a January event.
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June 6th tornado goes through Orlando, FL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v26hDHr3UY
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This season's whiplash continues. We were at 90.1 earlier this week (95.2 earlier this month) and woke up to 51.6 this morning.
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93 tomorrow with south winds up to 30 mph
It has been a crazy few weeks. and windy.
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Beautiful day yesterday in central Florida. Temp was 89 but DP's in the mid 60's and a nice north wind made it great. Unloaded 3 pick up loads of dirt and 2 pallets of sod and barley broke a sweat.
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93 tomorrow with south winds up to 30 mph
It has been a crazy few weeks. and windy.
Ditto here. Hot, above normal by 10 or more degrees every day and winds gusting 35-40.
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It's been a very cold and rainy June so far at my location. I've been running my pellet stove in the morning for the last 5 days. We had wet snow on the 7th. Yesterdays high was 52 while the high last December 22nd was 58. Winter storm warning above 5500 feet 100 miles NE of here. The heat turns on here like a light switch once the high sets up over the 4 corners region bringing the monsoon season to Arizona while cutting off the cold rain storms from the Pacific.
http://horseshoebendidahoweather.com/template/indexDesktop.php
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If you do Twitter, the MPLS NWS is reliving the 2010 storm. 600,000 without power state wide.
I did not have power for three days. Hijacked a generator from Home Depot.
Spent 8 hours bailing out my sump basket because my battery backup died. We still have the mixing bowl-We call it old faithful.
89 mph wind and 4 inches of rain.
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If you do Twitter, the MPLS NWS is reliving the 2010 storm. 600,000 without power state wide.
I did not have power for three days. Hijacked a generator from Home Depot.
Spent 8 hours bailing out my sump basket because my battery backup died. We still have the mixing bowl-We call it old faithful.
89 mph wind and 4 inches of rain.
I am curious about your battery sump pump backup. How long did it run before the battery died? I have a Wayne backup pump that has a 4 year old battery. I tested it last week after a rain and let it run for 8 hours. It was cycling approximately every 1.5 minutes and runs for about 20 seconds each cycle. My battery still showed 80% after 8 hours, but I wonder how quickly it would drop if I had left it running. It was bed time and I didn't want to chance it, so I plugged my primary pump back in.
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In that house I had a this
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The dumb thing I didn't do is to replace the battery after 5 years. So when that storm hit-it was 7-8 years old and only worked for a short time. I then borrowed a small generator from the neighbor and it worked for a while. It quit and the wife and I bailed out the basket until my FIL showed up with a generator.
Most batteries will run 8 hours continuous and 3 days when cycled off and on. That one ran for 3 days sporadically in 2005 or so.
When I was cleaning today-I found the bowl. It just does not feel right throwing it out after it saved us 1000's of dollars.
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That's the backup to the backup! I hope you didn't have to throw the water too far, 2 qts at a time.
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Wife dumped it into a 5 gallon bucket. I gingerly walked 10 feet to the laundry sink.
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getting heavy rain and wind now. Much needed. More at home than at school. A three mile difference.
0.12 school
0.83 home
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getting heavy rain and wind now. Much needed. More at home than at school. A three mile difference.
0.12 school
0.83 home
Send some down our way Chief... grass is turning brown. :-)
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We haven't seen any rain here in Chicago for eight days. Stuck between two stationery weather systems. NWS Chicago has some encouraging words for us today:
"I suppose if a bird were to flap its wings hard enough, a stray shower or two may pop up across the area but by and large dry conditions are expected today."
Borchardt
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Finally June gets some much needed rain. Over 2" here, so far.
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2012 Archive
May be the wrong place for this.
In 2012, 23-27 June, we had a 5 day period of temperatures I won't easily forget here in NW KS. Culminated on 27 June with a national high temperature of 115. Don't want to repeat this again. [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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Time for the monsoon, 111F yesterday, 112F today. Not only, the wildfire just north of town in the Catalina's is approaching 100,000 acres with little containment and about 1000 folks involved fighting it. =D> The only thing that will stop it is rain or lack of fuel. The former would be preferable.
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Good luck out there dude.
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A few areas in western Wisconsin had 8 inches of rain. Floods, washed out roads.
We have a heat advisory for hot and humid conditions.
I find it funny that Minn gets heat advisory for 90F with humidity and Florida gets warnings for 50. Both telling people to stay inside.
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A few areas in western Wisconsin had 8 inches of rain. Floods, washed out roads.
We have a heat advisory for hot and humid conditions.
I find it funny that Minn gets heat advisory for 90F with humidity and Florida gets warnings for 50. Both telling people to stay inside.
Warnings for 50?
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A few areas in western Wisconsin had 8 inches of rain. Floods, washed out roads.
We have a heat advisory for hot and humid conditions.
I find it funny that Minn gets heat advisory for 90F with humidity and Florida gets warnings for 50. Both telling people to stay inside.
Warnings for 50?
60?
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Hit 96 today. Hottest of the year so far and tomorrow is supposed to be the same. Dew point has been sitting at 70 so it hasn't been as bad as it could be.
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It's about time for the Japanese beetles to show up and strip my birch, linden, crab and other tree and shrub varieties which are looking great right now. I hate those damned beetles.
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Interesting how two non severe thunderstorms behaved here lately. On Thursday, a storm formed north of Stillwater and moved through during lunch hour and rained .56". On Friday a repeat of the very same thing happened. It rained .54". It should help the moderate drought here from worsening. Chance of more rain through Monday.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
Ah yeah, summertime in the south.
Bring it on baby! 2 rounds of thunderstorms today.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
Ah yeah, summertime in the south.
Bring it on baby! 2 rounds of thunderstorms today.
I'm willing to bet you almost always have some kind of breeze in FL. Where I was at, stagnant air ruled, making bad, worse. I was only 19 then as well....
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
Ah yeah, summertime in the south.
Bring it on baby! 2 rounds of thunderstorms today.
I'm willing to bet you almost always have some kind of breeze in FL. Where I was at, stagnant air ruled, making bad, worse. I was only 19 then as well....
June through September in the interior can be dead calm. Beaches not so much.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
Ah yeah, summertime in the south.
Bring it on baby! 2 rounds of thunderstorms today.
I'm willing to bet you almost always have some kind of breeze in FL. Where I was at, stagnant air ruled, making bad, worse. I was only 19 then as well....
June through September in the interior can be dead calm. Beaches not so much.
Of course. I've certainly never spent a calm wind day at the beach, and I've had many. You need to experience what dry air is like, even with triple digit heat. Completely different experience.
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Interesting. A train of storms have formed just to the NW of Stillwater moving SE. Maybe Stillwater won't be able to get out of the 70s this afternoon. Stillwater already had a heavy storm earlier this morning. The storm system held together and moved on to Oklahoma City with rain in some parts going over 3". It surprised weathermen, since models suggested it would weaken before getting that further south.
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Surprised the Southern part of Oklahoma also! Dropped from 92 down to 72 and picked up 0.48" of rain. Nice UU
Doug
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The storm train didn't develop into anything strong, so just got about an extra quarter inch of rain from it. The sun did come out and high got out of the 70s to 85. This Tuesday, it looks like there will be another try topping at 100 for the first time this summer.
The west side of the first storm to the west of me left some damage from wind gusts up to 40-80mph from the Kansas border south to OKC, but here the wind only gusted to 29mph, but July's peak gust, so far. The storm came with ominous looking shelf clouds.
As shown, it's always interesting how greatly the rain amounts can vary across town. The southwest part stayed well under an inch, while all the east side got over an inch, peaking out at 3.04". It's typical in July for strong storms to sometimes develop in eastern Colorado, Kansas or even Nebraska and move south to Oklahoma.
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Highs in the 90s, high humidity, 50% chance of thunder showers here until October.
One of the most miserable summers I every spent (hot/humid stuff) was in Millington. Mere sitting caused profuse sweating...showers were worthless as soon as you stepped outside. Don't miss that one bit.
Ah yeah, summertime in the south.
Bring it on baby! 2 rounds of thunderstorms today.
I'm willing to bet you almost always have some kind of breeze in FL. Where I was at, stagnant air ruled, making bad, worse. I was only 19 then as well....
June through September in the interior can be dead calm. Beaches not so much.
Of course. I've certainly never spent a calm wind day at the beach, and I've had many. You need to experience what dry air is like, even with triple digit heat. Completely different experience.
Heard on the news that it might get to 118 out there.
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Sunday is progged to "officially" be 114F at KTUS. With ASOS's averaging algorithm and plus I'm 200ft lower, that'll be 116F if not 117F for me. Still waiting for the beautiful MCS's that are forming south of the border to start working their magic about 150 miles further north.
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111F today with the same HI as dews have been holding the mid 50's. Mid 50's dew is child's play for the rest of the country, but not at an ambient 111F. Tomorrow will be fun...tack on another 4-5F or so. 8-[
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Whew, high heat index here this evening of as much as 124 with a severe storm watch until 1am. High temp 97. It will try again to top 100 for the first time this summer on Tuesday.
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Whew, as a result of a severe thunderstorm watch in much of Oklahoma, a major college town in Oklahoma, Norman, had much of the power go out in the city from the result of a severe thunderstorm coming through with winds of up to 81 mph. At least 34,000 people are in the dark in Norman. Meanwhile, in the other major college town in Oklahoma, Stillwater, managed to steer clear of the worst part of the severe storms and there are no power outages. The max gust during the severe thunderstorm warning in my Stillwater locality was only 34 mph at my weather station. The .58" that came from the storm should help in keeping the moderate drought in the area from getting any worse. Thank God for the BIG blessings!
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IT IS SO GROSS!!!!!
No wind.
Dew point close to 80F.
Storms are popping again.
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Dave, you in Florida?
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feels like it
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I left the door between the garage and the house open for a little bit.
It is now raining in my coat room.
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Pictured, an isolated shower cloud goes up ENE of Stillwater on Wednesday evening as snapped from Boomer Lake Park. That was characteristic of very widely scattered hit or mostly miss pop up showers for the past week. However, the pattern is about to significantly change. A heat dome that was not strong enough to get high temps to the 100s is moving west, allowing for a cold front to come in on Monday with heavy rain possible in the forecast. Highs will be down as much as the low 80s then. For now, Sunday afternoon, it's plenty hot, with the heat index around 105, along with a small shower to the north moving SW. The heat index this summer has peaked out to 126.
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Once again, I'll believe 3+" inches of rain when I see it. The widespread rain that is happening tonight in much of Kansas is supposed to be in Oklahoma Monday night.
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July precipitation GID NWS coverage area. Average for the area ranges from 4.3 in the east to around 3.0 in the west. Nice rainy month here. Not so much for central NE. [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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We had a front and very strong winds come through yesterday. There was whitecaps on the water in the lake, which is unusual for this time of year. No rain, but lower humidity and good breezes make it seem very nice. I'll take it! :)
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Rare, luxurious summer weather has been the order of the day this week in central Oklahoma with highs in the low 80s and dew point in the low 60s. The rest of the plains, not including Texas, and midwest is even better with highs in 70s. Oklahoma City for July was 1.6 degrees below normal temp wise. Global warming went on a delightful break!
But normal summer temps return starting Friday with temps slated to be in the mid to upper 90s.
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It has been mountain resort beautiful here in Kansas for several days. Highs in the 70s. This ends by Thursday however.
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Tuesday evening another typical for mid summer round of heavy storms developed in eastern Colorado and western Kansas and moved across a large portion of Oklahoma early Wednesday morning. My area and Oklahoma City didn't get the lion's share. However, counties just to the west of Oklahoma City got the most generous downpours as map shows. The same thing is supposed to happen again for Thursday morning but probably not be as widespread. Normal high temps of 95 return on Saturday.
The other map below from Wednesday morning's rain shows again how variable rainfall amounts can be in Stillwater. This time the southwest part got the most. So far, lawns will remain green for August, something that isn't guaranteed to happen every August. Still time left to see if it will get to 100 for the first time this summer.
(https://stillwaterweather.com/photos/rainaug5.png)
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Derecho trampled through Iowa today. Lots of damage, trees down or tops broken off.
Travel not advised in many towns.
City of Ames without power. Hearing 400k without power state wide.
My sis is ok. Waiting to hear from the renters and Aardvark.
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Our local weatherman in Chattanooga was discussing it. He said some winds in Iowa and Chicago was around 100 mph. Those winds can be very destructive.
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Moline got slammed pretty hard. This morning, the MEC outage map still shows almost 100,000 customers without power in the Quad Cities. https://www.midamericanenergy.com/OutageWatch/dsk.html (pretty cool map, because you can overlay the radar on it)
My house seems to have fared OK. A couple of my high school classmates were kind enough to check it for me. The neighbors have a tree across the driveway, and power lines down, and I hear that their dock and pontoon boat on the Rock River took a beating.
More updates available now (Tuesday, 11 Aug AM) at https://qconline.com/
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There are still almost 50 customers without power in the Quad Cities. Full restoration may take another 3 or more days. If you want to see pictures of the storm and destruction, check out https://www.facebook.com/ILStormTrackers/.
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Weather is still cracking here.
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There are still almost 50 customers without power in the Quad Cities. Full restoration may take another 3 or more days. If you want to see pictures of the storm and destruction, check out https://www.facebook.com/ILStormTrackers/.
Maybe some people had it out longer than I did, but my town has never had electricity out for longer than overnight through much of the next day. That was on two occasions from an F3 tornado coming through town. Fortunately was not in the direct path of both so house only had minor damage both times.
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Had a storm roll through last night. 53 mph at school. Some in the area with trees down and no electricity.
Survey of damage today. Will probably be a. Ef0. Other tornados in Minnesota last night.
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https://www.facebook.com/NWSHastings/posts/3385440181487799
Active night in parts of the Hastings, NWS area to our east. Numerous large hail pictures. (Hope this link to FB pictures of hail works)
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But it's a dry heat...
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In contrast to above, Oklahoma City highs will sink back to the upper 80s from Tuesday to Friday, which is below average. I can't complain about that. Neither can I complain that a high still hasn't made it to 100, so far this summer in Oklahoma City. Summer high is 97 set in July. Summer high at my station has also been 97.
(https://stillwaterweather.com/photos/80s.jpg)
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Hi: Mid 90sF
Lo: Mid 70sF
Chance of rain 50%
Same forecast until October.
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I am going to be on local cable access again. Talking about the storms over the weekend. There was an EF0 that went through the area in the school district. Just a few blocks north of the building.
Trees down. but no significant damage. Lucky.
I will post it when it is finished online.
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Don't forget who your friends are when you hit the big time! :)
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Some day I will as big as Farmtalk. But without the Meteorology degree
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Looking forward to your report.
Chicago has always had up and down weather, sometimes in the same day. We are still recovering from last week's Derecho and now we have this to look forward to:
TOM SKILLING’S 3-DAY FORECAST
Through June, Chicago’s 2020 precipitation was well above normal, greatly elevated by a record-wet May that delivered nearly 10 inches of rain and flooding to the region. June precipitation was also above normal, but a noticeably drier pattern began in July and is continuing in August. Area soils are drying out, and incipient drought conditions are beginning to show up in this area. The upcoming week offers little chance for rain, while the strong August sun further dries out the soil. The best chances for rain here don’t show up for several days, until a cold front approaches the area Friday night. Chicago area temperatures in the upcoming week will be seasonably warm with daily highs mainly in the 80s, a far cry from the intense triple-digit heat currently scorching the West.
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As of now I may have been deleted. We will see.
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I just watched a movie last night dealing with Chicago: Beginning of the End with Peter Graves. Giant locusts were attacking the city. I'm glad he saved the day!
Chicago has always had up and down weather, sometimes in the same day. We are still recovering from last week's Derecho and now we have this to look forward to:
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Locusts we got but not the giant ones anymore since Peter knocked them out.
We gotta look out for these guys now.
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Here is the story.
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Locusts we got but not the giant ones anymore since Peter knocked them out.
We gotta look out for these guys now.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/18/murder-hornets-first-male-captured-washington-state/5604014002/
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Here is the story.
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What, no Chiefs SB shirt??
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Here is the story.
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Attaboy!
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Just a question - When is that C/high over 4 corners going to go away? It has been hanging around for at least two weeks, and several lows have passed by it. Now what? Or are we going to have to await the turning of the seasons to get it to go away? Curious minds would like to know - and will a M/tropical low from the gulf replace it?
Mark Allen (Mal)
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Whew, finally made it to 100 for the first time this summer on Friday, topping out at 102 at my station. Western 2/3rds of Oklahoma in 100s. Hot temps won't last much longer. Highs only in the mid 80s on Monday.
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Well, here's our weather story for today from this afternoons AFD...
CLIMATE...Today the Tucson airport recorded the 54th high
temperature of 105 degrees or hotter this year, breaking the
previous record from 1994 for the most in a calendar year.
Not only, last I checked, this is the driest monsoon in recorded history at TUS, as we are now in technical extreme drought. Tropical influence is suppose to greatly increase our rain chances this weekend. This will most likely be our last gasp til the winter rains. Guess we'll see.
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So closeth out summer...at least in climatological terms.
How was your 3 months? Warmer than normal? Colder? Drier? Any memorable storms, remembering that Iowa deserves our thoughts still.
Somebody can start a Fall Thread now.
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So closeth out summer...at least in climatological terms.
How was your 3 months? Warmer than normal? Colder? Drier?
"Hot" of the press... Pun intended. And I thought last year was bad. ](*,)
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/climate/monthly/aug20.php
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June was typical springtime in Chicago. The temperature range was a low of 52 to a high of 94.
The average high (84.0) was 4.3 degrees above normal. There were 8 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 5 days more than normal. The average low (63.9) was 5.8 degrees above normal.
Total rain was 4.40 inches, .95 inches above normal.
July ended up warmer and drier than average.
The average high (88.3) was 4.2 degrees above normal. There were 12 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 6 days more than normal. Average low (70.2) was 5.2 degrees above normal.
Total rain was 2.55 inches which was 1.15 inches below average.
August followed the lead of July, warmer and drier.
The average high (86.4) was 4.5 degrees above normal. There were 10 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 6 days more than normal. The average low (67.2) was 4.3 degrees above normal. The temperature spread was a low of 56 to 97 degrees.
Total rain for the month was .80 inches (4.10 inches below normal).
We received .11 inches of rain today, but my lawn could still go up in flames from an errant cigarette butt.
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It's been hot all summer and wet, too. The farmers got a lot of hay this year and probably will get one more cutting.
So for here until the end of October it's highs in the 80s with afternoon and evening thunder showers.
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Our local weather history illustrates the vagaries of using any individual season, or several seasons, as indicators of 'trends'.
The Omaha/Valley, NE WFO is bemoaning the fact that their precipitation is currently way under their 'Summer Average'.
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These graphics also illustrates the extreme localization of weather data. I think that to draw generalized conclusions from such information is to stretch credulity beyond any reasonable limit. After 30 years such trends might become significant climatologically.
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Not much here, but the southeast quarter of Oklahoma sure got a lot rain over the last 3 days:
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Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?
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Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?
I saw that you guys are back in the frying pan again.
Cracks me up how they say Labor Day is the end of summer.
Yeah, right.
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Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?
I saw that you guys are back in the frying pan again.
Cracks me up how they say Labor Day is the end of summer.
Yeah, right.
This is my 30th summer here and I've watched records be set time and time again (not just officially, but my obs as well). AFAIC, "man-made" global warming is crock, but climatic cyclical changes are not, and we're in one here. Topping on the cake? The monsoon was an epic fail...by far the worse in my time here.
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Wild swings in temperature:
Low at my station this morning 41; High today, 88. A respectable 47 degree range.
High temperatures forecast for Sat and Sun, upper 90s to 101.
Tuesday high forecast 50s.
The Great Plains!