WORLD WEATHER THREAD


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Tornado sirens went off last night - had to get down to the underground parking garage of our condo building for shelter. I had been watching the storm approach on the weather radar but it didn't have any history of rotation so it was just a "severe storm warning." I started a game of Starcraft II and suddenly the sirens went off.....was a ladder game too....had to apologize and run :p Scooped up the cats and crammed them into their carriers (always on standby this time of year) and headed downstairs. We could hear the hail hammering outside and somebody said a tornado had touched down a couple of miles away. We waited for about 30 mins and then they sounded the all-clear.

The storm had basically decided to spin up right over the top of us, then as it passed it changed from a tornadic storm to a system with 100mph straight line wind gusts :eek: Places east got hammered.....trees and power lines down, flooding, large hail, etc. We actually escaped pretty well - saw a few branches down on my way into work and some flooding, but nothing serious. I'm still not sure if a tornado actually did touch down (no reports of damage) - but we definitely had funnel clouds right over us, so the "brown adrenaline" was flowing freely :D

There are many outlying places without power today, but one good thing is that the temps have been in the high 90's the past few days and this storm dragged colder air behind it - we're down in the mid 60's today!
 
Curio said:
Tornado sirens went off last night - had to get down to the underground parking garage of our condo building for shelter. I had been watching the storm approach on the weather radar but it didn't have any history of rotation so it was just a "severe storm warning." I started a game of Starcraft II and suddenly the sirens went off.....was a ladder game too....had to apologize and run :p Scooped up the cats and crammed them into their carriers (always on standby this time of year) and headed downstairs. We could hear the hail hammering outside and somebody said a tornado had touched down a couple of miles away. We waited for about 30 mins and then they sounded the all-clear.

The storm had basically decided to spin up right over the top of us, then as it passed it changed from a tornadic storm to a system with 100mph straight line wind gusts :eek: Places east got hammered.....trees and power lines down, flooding, large hail, etc. We actually escaped pretty well - saw a few branches down on my way into work and some flooding, but nothing serious. I'm still not sure if a tornado actually did touch down (no reports of damage) - but we definitely had funnel clouds right over us, so the "brown adrenaline" was flowing freely :D

There are many outlying places without power today, but one good thing is that the temps have been in the high 90's the past few days and this storm dragged colder air behind it - we're down in the mid 60's today!
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Wow, 100 mph straight line winds, there was a storm like that in south-central IL a few years ago, people called it the inland hurricane. Youtube has vids. just search for inland hurricane. Those are 2 big reasons we moved from the midwest to NYS, to get away from the severe storms & high temps in the summers.
 
Edward78 said:
Wow, 100 mph straight line winds, there was a storm like that in south-central IL a few years ago, people called it the inland hurricane. Youtube has vids. just search for inland hurricane. Those are 2 big reasons we moved from the midwest to NYS, to get away from the severe storms & high temps in the summers.
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Im in Kazakhstan at the moment next to the Caspian Sea in a small town near Aktau. Its pretty hot and windy at this time of the year, will rise to 40deg next month (glad I wont be around) but in winter its going to drop to -40deg. Never experienced cold like that before so its going to be interesting.
 
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