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We had a thunderstorm last night. In February. It lasted for about 45 minutes. Did I mention I also live in NY?

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We had a thunderstorm last night. In February. It lasted for about 45 minutes. Did I mention I also live in Northern PA?

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It's just rainy here, but it looks like things are going to pick up later this afternoon, especially west of us.

The stage has been set for a pretty big outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes.
If I lived in Western or Central Kentucky, Western or Central TN, Missouri, Northern Mississippi, Northern and Western Arkansas, or anywhere near those places, I'd have my weather radio cranked up this afternoon and evening.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

It was an oddly warm day for wintertime in Northern VA, but it just made lacrosse conditioning more fun.

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Warm, dawg. Sunny.

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It was crazy today. The air temperature is a full 20+ degrees warmer than the water temperature, so it created a lot of haze/fog. You should've seen it. You could not see like twenty feet in front of you. It was amazing.

Bad hair day though.

Is it me or does it seem like everytime it rains in Kentucky now, it pours?

Which part of Kentucky are you from, Sree?

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Windiest. Day. EVAR.

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I'm in Frankfort.
Looks like the area southwest of me is getting hammered.

Do we have anyone from the Nashville area on here?

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Dizzang! Tor-warned and everything! Ah, if only it wasn't 1:30 AM and I wasn't dog-tired and studying for a Radar & Satellite exam, I could be at the lab with GRL2 watching it in detail. So since I'm too lazy to check, did you get anything? Looked pretty linear, so I'm assuming you're not dead.


Well, there's FireBird. Thankfully it wasn't dropping a whole lot other than a funnel and hail. MEG put out 4 tornado emergencies tonight (thankfully not one for Nashville). Either they're overzealous or this outbreak went batcrap crazy.

Now, me and Ed could get anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow during the day Wednesday. It was supposed to start tonight, but it's moving quite a bit slower than expected. The models have been terribly unreliable.

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Well... we're getting heavy rainfall and everyone at school is still dripping with sweat. Not rain, sweat. Well, maybe a bit of rain too.


So, spastic. QLD GAY.

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The storm that came through last night knocked out the power for a couple of hours. It also blew the roof off of Central Hardin High School, a rival school of mine. My school is being used as an emergency shelter, so needless to say I'm out of school and not sure when I'll return. Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers.

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It snowed last night. Of course, it didn't snow enough to actually cover the ground completely, but it still looks kinda pretty.

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Joe, you mean you don't have Gibson Ridge on your own compy? For shame... Then again, they used to have the trial version (fully functional), but you could just keep uninstalling then reinstalling at the end of the trial.
Now, they've fixed it so that you can't do that (easily).

Actually, I DID get some nice shots from the Nashville radar of that storm.
To say it was a textbook hook would be an understatement.
From Gibson Ridge Level-II Analyst:
Lookie here.
This is the storm as it crossed into Kentucky(where it killed 4 in Allen County. This was about 10 minutes before it hit there).

I used the 3D volume renderer to just get a picture of the cell. I haven't mastered the way of assigning different brightness levels to different reflectivity values. I'm quite impressed with the height. The lightest blue in the image is 15 dBZ I think. I made it from the same volume scan as the one in the first image. The view is from the south.

I have to say that this is so much easier to use than CEDRIC. The images look better, too. Of course, it's nowhere near as powerful.

As far as things went here, we had some very interesting damage (one of our intersections lost the traffic lights. I don't mean the fell. I mean, they left. They were gone. Totally.

Also, my office lost power last night. We stood around in the dark for about an hour before our director sent us home, telling us to call back around noon and, if the power was back on, to come back in.

We didn't get much damage at my place, though. All of the loose stuff on the building I live in left it with last week's storms. Last week, it looked like a shingle, gutter, and siding truck exploded in the parking lot. All we had last night was a lot of wind blown rain and having the bejesus scared out of us by the tornado siren. It's not that we didn't know it was going to come on. It's just that the siren somehow made it seem so much more dangerous, especially since we live on the second floor West/Southwest edge of an apartment building on top of a hill.

You'd think I would have an evac plan for severe weather. You'd be wrong, somehow.
I think I'm going to head to the Capitol parking structure or Capital Plaza Hotel parking structure. I figure reinforced concrete (particularly underground reinforced concrete) would be a better safe spot.
I can be at either in less than 8 minutes. Assuming I have that much of a head's up, it might be worth it.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

That tornado was an EF2.

This outbreak caused 56 fatalities (and the number is probably not done climbing as door to door searches are performed). This is the deadliest outbreak since 1985.


I think I'll get the trial version when I leave school for the summer.


Nice. Was playing with volumetric as it went over Nashville. Got too close to radar. Not too spectacular (and thank goodness).


If one ended up in my backyard, I'd keep it in my basement. Course, if they found it, they would probably charge me with larceny.


ruh roh

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The volume thing is cool, but you gotta wait til it's about 50 miles from the radar, Joe, otherwise, you're probably not going to shoot the whole storm.

Anyways, everything is getting back to normal. The power company has gotten the traffic lights back up, and I think most of the snapped power poles have been replaced. A lot of the houses have had trees removed from their living rooms.

Also, I learned why I should never be afraid for my safety here. Frankfort's Homeland Security director's last name is Rambo.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Our weather has shifted gears so often the past week or so we're salvaging transmission parts. It's been sunny and warm a few days, and spit snow in between. And don't even get me started on the ice storm a few months ago.

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Also, it turns out that there was a tornado in Frankfort after all.
It was rated an EF-1. 100mph winds aren't too shabby.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Good thing Frankfort didn't make it to the fatality list. Dang, what a(n) historic outbreak. This spring better not be any worse...

Here's what I got from that system: 12 inches of snow in 12 hours, school closed from 4 pm Weds to 2 pm the next day. My birthday was Thurs, so I had no classes on my birthday.

So far, in the course of the last month, my university has been closed 5 days. One was due to a 21-hour power outage as a result of that rotating severe cell that produced 1-inch hail and 60 mph winds (the same one that dropped the Kenosha EF3). Lightning hit a transformer, and most of the city lost power. Awesome. The other 4 were partial days due to snow. And I count this last system as responsible for 2 of those days. It used to be that 1 snow day per semester was all you could hope for, and now they are contemplating adding an extra day of instruction at the end of the semester.

This weekend, highs will be 5 F and wind chills -20 F. Thank you, Lake Michigan, or else we'd be 15 degrees colder.

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It currently looks like a normal winter day outside; 50 degrees Fahrenheit seems to be the high , the air seems "clear", and the sun is pretty bright with some mild cloud cover.

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It currently looks like a normal winter day outside; 18 degrees Fahrenheit seems to be the high, the air seems "clear", and the sun hasn't shined for any extended period since a week ago.

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Heh, I guess that my "normal winter day" should be "normal spring day". I must've forgotten the true meaning of cold with all of the warmth we've been getting in Virginia.

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Terrible.

Just.

Terrible.

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66 degrees.
Sunny.
High of 75.
Humidity 44%.
Dew point 46 degrees.
Visibility of 10 miles.

Here it feels less than 0, high of not much.
No humidity, like 20+ mph wind.
It's snowing.
Visibility of less than 100 feet.

Wootness.

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Yep. My wife's getting deployed to somewhere in TN (either Memphis or Nashville) to work the disaster. She works for FEMA, so that means I'm going to get the apartment to myself for about 6 weeks.

I was hoping she'd have to work in Bowling Green KY or somewhere like that. Oh well.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Vera windy.

It got up to like 25 mph.

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Oh, did I mention that it's actually 13° Fahrenheit out, there's a light snow, the wind is 39 mph, and the wind chill is -11° Fahrenheit?

Yeah, I didn't know that until I checked.

It's good to be inside.

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Last nite in Rhinelander we had an extreme wind storm

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"I gut you like sheep."

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