WORLD WEATHER THREAD

Had a close call last night. Big storm rolled through around midnight. Suddenly my cell phone alarm goes off and it's the weather warning system saying there's a tornado. Then I hear the tornado sirens start to go off in the distance. Quickly turned on the TV and the danger area is just south of us. That warning expires and then almost straight away the sirens are going again - this time in our area. This warning area is right on top of us. Wind is howling outside - massive air-to-ground lightning just constantly...literally every 2-3 seconds. Rush down to the basement with wife and child and hope for the best. After 30 mins the warning expires and the house is still standing. Turn on the news and reports of damage are coming in from just a couple of miles away from us, but it doesn't sound too bad - they don't even know if it was a tornado or just straight line wind gust damage. Back to bed.

Woke up this morning to find out an F2 had dropped a couple of miles from us and wrecked a neighborhood. Fortunately it only tracked a short distance and the dissipated. Even more amazingly, no injuries whatsoever! There had also been an F3 a few miles to the west of us. Again, no injuries amazingly. Damage put at around $10m so far.
 
Great view of a tropical storm:


Cameras mounted on the truss of the International Space Station captured a dramatic view of Tropical Storm Arthur at 9:29 a.m. Eastern time July 2 as the station and its six-man crew flew 260 miles overhead. At the time, Arthur was about 100 miles east-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, moving north at about 6 miles an hour. The National Hurricane Center forecasts that Arthur will strengthen into a hurricane as it moves to the northeast and close to the Eastern seaboard during the next several days. The Expedition 40 crew also captured digital still imagery of Arthur as part of its regular acquisition of Earth observation targets and meteorological phenomena.
Click to expand...
 

NASA's TRMM satellite flew over on July 14, 2014 at 1819 UTC and data was used to make this 3-D flyby showing thunderstorms to heights of almost 17km (10.5 miles). Rain was measured falling at a rate of almost 102 mm (about 4 inches).
Click to expand...
 
Anybody see that programme on TV a few nights ago where they mentioned that owing to the reduction in pollution the storms/hurricanes are getting worse.

Owing to pollution the temperature of the sea was increasing, which decreased the intensity and occurrence of storms. Now that pollution is not as high as it was or at least reducing owing to the clean air acts, the sea temperatures are dropping again and the storms/hurricanes are returning to how they were before. Quite interesting I thought.
 
XeNoN89 said:
Looks like Tropical Storm Bertha might hit us at the weekend

[/QUOTE]

It won't be as frightening as that map implies.

We will just have to wait and see:

[QUOTE]
A tropical storm currently hovering over the Bahamas appears to be on its way to Europe, according to Met Office forecasters.

Latest data suggests it will head north, staying offshore from the eastern coast of the US before turning to track east across the Atlantic.

Models appear to show the storm will head in the general direction of UK and continental Europe, but there remains a lot of uncertainty about exactly what it will do once it arrives.

In a blog, the Met Office stated: "The development of extra tropical storms can present complexities for meteorologists, and Bertha is a good example of that.


"If all the models agree, there’s higher certainty, if they diverge, we know the atmosphere is finely balanced and there are several possible outcomes.

"In the case of Bertha each of the models we use gives a very different picture of what the storm will do.

"This ranges from Bertha heading towards France as a weak feature which will completely miss the UK, to it arriving as a fairly active summer storm.

"In terms of timing, there’s also a spread of possibilities – but it looks likely that the earliest Bertha would affect the UK would be on Sunday or into the start of next week.

"Given the time of year and the potential heavy rain, strong winds and large waves Bertha could bring if it does head to the UK, we’d advise everyone to stay up to date with the latest forecasts and warnings from the Met Office over the next few days."[/QUOTE]

[url]http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/is-tropical-storm-bertha-heading-for-the-uk/[/url]


It became a hurricane yesterday:

[MEDIA=youtube]zFukpcwQsU8[/MEDIA]

[QUOTE]This animation of NOAA's GOES-East satellite imagery from August 2 through 4 shows the movement of Tropical Storm Bertha over Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and the Bahamas. It became a hurricane on August 4 at 11 a.m. EDT when NOAA and air force hurricane hunter aircraft indicated that the maximum sustained winds had increased to near 80 mph (130 kph). [/QUOTE]
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom