What's it doing where you are? Stormy / Snowy weather thread.

[jpc]

What the **** is up with the weather huh??!!
It's ******** July but it looks/feels like November.

The weather machine is broken bad.

[Ephilant]

The weather machine is broken bad.

Ours is working just fine...



(about the only thing that is right now...)

[bernadette]

Its been sheet rain for the best part of all day and yesterday. Feet are becoming webbed....

[fluffybiscuits]

I went for a walk into town, clammy out..

[Sam Lord]

After a heat index of 111F on Friday, we had a very unusual storm on Friday night. Lots of lightning, very little thunder, very little rain,lots of wind. Result is in a an area of 2,000 sq miles about 1.3 million homes, nearly half the total, are without power,
yours truly inc. 600 out of 800 traffic lights in my county are out. Grocery stores, Gas stations, bank ATM’s McDonalds etc all closed. Long lines at any that are open. Supplies being rationed in some places. Power out at some water filtration plants. Mandatory water usage restrictions. What seemed at the time to be a relatively minor storm, has had a major impact. Power companies report some “catastrophic” failure of plant and equipment that will have to be replaced before power can be restored to homes and businesses. People are expecting to be without power for up to a week. A lesson in how fragile modern infrastructure is, kinda like a dry run for the aftermath of a cyber attack. I’m grabbing some WiFi from the parking lot of a Starbucks that is overflowing. Back later.

Hows it going Count? Did you get your electricity back?

[DCon]

some mild rain forecast for Britain

[bernadette]

This evening has been brilliant in between having a row on another thread I've been in the garden enjoying the most fantastic sunset.

The sky was aflame and there was the clearest, strongest rainbow I've seen for years!

Real Magic!

[5intheface]

This evening has been brilliant in between having a row on another thread I've been in the garden enjoying the most fantastic sunset.

Ah but if you had seen that sunset in the north you'd clearly see that it was rubbish.

[bernadette]

Ah but if you had seen that sunset in the north you'd clearly see that it was rubbish.

Not a chance! If you're in the north go into the garden its a grand night and the moon is still full its bright out there.

[riposte]

This evening has been brilliant in between having a row on another thread I've been in the garden enjoying the most fantastic sunset.

The sky was aflame and there was the clearest, strongest rainbow I've seen for years!

Real Magic!

Enjoy....... and welcome to the forum bernadette

[bernadette]

Enjoy....... and welcome to the forum bernadette

Thanks Riposte I hope you're enjoying the evening its the best there's been here for a long time.

[fluffybiscuits]

Walked home from work this evening, lovely evening

[Count Bobulescu]

Hows it going Count? Did you get your electricity back?

Got power back around mid-day Tuesday, but out on the local drag about a mile away there are still businesses without power on Thursday morning. You’d think they would be the first to be restored. Still about 100,000 with out power in the DC metro area. Wind knocked trees and trees knocked not just power lines, but power poles as well. They even have a name for this type of storm a Derecho. Learn more than you will ever want to know here.

We know a number of facts about the June 29 derecho now. As many as 5 million lost power from near Chicago to the East Coast, at least 22 were killed, and it caused a yet uncounted millions or billions in damage. Yet, as of 24 hours prior and even the morning of, very little in the way of mass indication that it was coming.

While the United States moves toward becoming a weather ready nation, how could something like this happen with half a day or less of warning? Is it destined to happen again?

The story starts with a somewhat atypical weather pattern for this area, but one known to produce large-scale severe weather events from the Plains to the East Coast. Possibly the most important part of the pattern is a jet stream flow nearby, often traveling around the north end a big ridge of high pressure producing significant heat.

The “ring of fire,” where these air masses clash, is a well known location of summertime thunderstorms.

Related: Derecho: Behind Washington, D.C.’s destructive thunderstorm outbreak, June 29, 2012

But, what made this event special all the way to the East Coast, and were any early clues ignored or overlooked?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...kwKW_blog.html

[Spectabilis]

Glad you have the power back Count. I love the phrase 'weather ready nation' in the link above. I think the closest I have seen to that is Wimbledon this week. Ballboys and girls on the ready to pull across the tarpaulin and a sliding roof if things get really bad. Umpire making the calls.

[Griska]

Howdy from New Hampshire.
Hot as hell and humidity that kills.
We had an excellent storm last night - forked lightning during the 4th July fireworks, which was really something.