Post by suburbanzookeeper on May 28, 2019 22:35:44 GMT -5
We were 25-30 degrees below seasonal normal last week (in Southern California). If I see one more post on a local page about "take that global warming!" I may snap. I'm in no rush to get back to 110+ degree summers but this all just feels wrong.
We drove from KC to Omaha today and the flooding we saw was unreal.
Was terrifying when the tornado hit my hometown earlier and my sister’s texts weren’t coming thru so we didn’t know what was up.
Tornado was half mile wide and on the ground a long time. Here is a pic of it, will know more about extent of damage in the morning.
Wow crazy. We're supposed to go to Omaha, then KC, then Topeka in less than 2 weeks and if the flooding doesn't lesson not sure we will be able to go. Looks like I-29 between Omaha and KC is closed now.
We just drove that stretch today! The water was encroaching on both sides. We may have to take another route home on Thursday.
2019 is the year of weather for us apparently. We had an insanely active winter with ton of snow storms. May has been a very active rainy period for us. Just last week it seems we finally made the jump from 50s and rainy to 70s and rainy lol. I am in Iowa.
We had a tornado that popped up out of nowhere on Friday night. It thankfully retracted back up, but we were in the direct path.
Rain and cold for weeks. It’s like March has lasted 3 months.
Yep. Maine will sit in solidarity with the Coloradoans.
We had one nice day this past weekend and now we’re back to 50s and pouring rain.
Add Nova Scotia to the list. My god, the rain. I think we've had 2 partially sunny days in 3 weeks. And 6 out of the next 7 days are calling for rain. I'm glad our house is on the top of a hill. Some of the nearby rivers are overflowing quite spectacularly.
As crazy as all of this seems, I'm really thinking this is just the new normal due to climate change. And I don't like it.
People talk about this stuff as if it's just a random occurrence when these bizarre weather patterns are clearly linked.
Also, our two basil plants (regular and holy) both bit the dust. I do think the other herbs, tomatoes, and perennials we planted will be ok though. We seriously need some sun though. These plants are not going to hold on if they can't get sun.
My lilies are doing amazing with all the rain. Although I think part of it is that dh hasn't mowed them down yet because it's raining any time he's home... so, yay? I might actually get flowers this year?
Sure I can always complain about the weather. May was crazy. The first part of the month it wouldn't stop raining, we had multiple tornadoes in the area which is rare for Houston, and did I mention the rain? Now it's just hot. We have already had heat indexes in the triple digits which doesn't bode well for the rest of summer. There is nothing worse than a sweaty bra and I have already experienced that multiple times. Only a million more days to go until it cools down sometime in November.
We hit 100+ over the weekend in CHS - the first time in recorded history we've reached those temps in May. And the cherry on top is that it has stayed that high for several days now. And we haven't had any rain - not even our standard mid-afternoon thunderstorms we typically get when it gets this hot. The drought level has been upgraded to incipient level in 15 counties with voluntary burn bans in place.
Post by One Girl In All The World on May 29, 2019 7:11:49 GMT -5
Bearing in mind that here in Maryland our tornados are not like the ones the Midwest is seeing, usually, they scare the crap out of me. I’m forever scarred by the one I actually saw on campus at College Park years ago. I feel like we have already had a lot of warnings and watches so far this season, and our prime storm season doesn’t really start until next month. The one that hit Columbia looked like it would have headed straight for us if it held together a little longer. We’re in for more severe storms again today/tonight.
Bearing in mind that here in Maryland our tornados are not like the ones the Midwest is seeing, usually, they scare the crap out of me. I’m forever scarred by the one I actually saw on campus at College Park years ago. I feel like we have already had a lot of warnings and watches so far this season, and our prime storm season doesn’t really start until next month. The one that hit Columbia looked like it would have headed straight for us if it held together a little longer. We’re in for more severe storms again today/tonight.
A few weeks ago, we had to go to the basement for a tornado warning for the first time I ever remember.
It's definitely frightening how much worse and how much more frequently extreme weather events are occurring everywhere.
Bearing in mind that here in Maryland our tornados are not like the ones the Midwest is seeing, usually, they scare the crap out of me. I’m forever scarred by the one I actually saw on campus at College Park years ago. I feel like we have already had a lot of warnings and watches so far this season, and our prime storm season doesn’t really start until next month. The one that hit Columbia looked like it would have headed straight for us if it held together a little longer. We’re in for more severe storms again today/tonight.
A few weeks ago, we had to go to the basement for a tornado warning for the first time I ever remember.
It's definitely frightening how much worse and how much more frequently extreme weather events are occurring everywhere.
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The other night (Saturday, I think) a storm rolled through my neighborhood. It had already gone through HoCo, and then hit us. By the time it started here, the Severe Tstorm warning expired, but I was watching and could see the rain and hail just start swirling everywhere - the sound was insane - and threw my daughter in our little harry potter cubby under the stairs (no basement here, ugh). It only lasted a minute, and my husband thought I was nuts, but that's when they reinstated a new warning. The next day, we say all kinds of limbs down and a whole tree crashed into a house on the corner opposite ours, about three houses away. Something happened in that split second and it was really scary.
It's been raining for 352 years. The Arkansas river is flooded worse than any time in recorded history and it hasn't even crested yet. And there are tornadoes everywhere.
Right now my area is fine - we are north of most of the floods and the severe storms seem to go around us. But my kids are with my mom who lives south of the river, and all of the bridges between there and here are closed. I'm supposed to go get them Friday but it looks like they may have to spend some extra time with Grandma.
Ellie, when is it forecasted to crest? I live in SEMO, and my daughter and I will be driving down to Little Rock in a few weeks. There are a lot of creeks and rivers to cross on the way down there...
My area is ok... I like to say we live in a "cone of protection" due to the terrain around our town. But along the Mississippi they are calling for 1993-level floods. It's going to be a long summer.
Upstate NY can't decide what it wants. We have 1-2 sunny days where it spikes to the 80s, then a week or so with overnights in the 40s and highs around 60. Lots of grey days with showers; finding spaces to mow a dry lawn has been hard. Today is forecast to be in the low 60s, but it's incredibly humid so it's hard to choose between pants vs shorts/skirts. It's just gloomy, plus my sinuses and allergies are constantly peeved with the weather swings.
This has been the coldest most godawful spring I've ever experienced (and I'm an old so...). We had measurable snow twice in April of over 4 inches (let's not forget the second coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago this past winter) . Snow like that generally doesn't happen. And May has been cold, rainy and windy. I'm a runner and I rarely check the wind but this year, I check the weather including wind speed and direction numerous times a day all week long to figure out when is the least windy, least rainy, somewhat decent temp time to run. One day I'll run in a tank and shorts and the next it's long sleeve, jacket and gloves. Sunday I had a window in the afternoon of exactly one hour in between storms. It's nuts.
But clearly not as bad as tornadoes running through my city. Stay safe everyone.
Today is gray and drizzly in the PNW. Alexa said it was going to be 70, so granddaughter went to school in shorts and a t-shirt today. We had weather in the high 70s for a couple days last week, with a 20 degree drop overnight. Thankfully, yesterday was gorgeous. Today...typical Seattle winter weather.
Same here...except without the drizzle. Just gray, 50-60's, and BLAH. However, this is what a typical Anchorage "summer" looks like so I'm not unused to it.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
Upstate NY can't decide what it wants. We have 1-2 sunny days where it spikes to the 80s, then a week or so with overnights in the 40s and highs around 60. Lots of grey days with showers; finding spaces to mow a dry lawn has been hard. Today is forecast to be in the low 60s, but it's incredibly humid so it's hard to choose between pants vs shorts/skirts. It's just gloomy, plus my sinuses and allergies are constantly peeved with the weather swings.
Yeah, my mom lives in western ny and hasn’t been able to mow her lawn yet because it doesn’t have a chance to get dry and the longer the grass gets the more it stays wet. She’s been taking a weedwacker to it.
It's been raining for 352 years. The Arkansas river is flooded worse than any time in recorded history and it hasn't even crested yet. And there are tornadoes everywhere.
Right now my area is fine - we are north of most of the floods and the severe storms seem to go around us. But my kids are with my mom who lives south of the river, and all of the bridges between there and here are closed. I'm supposed to go get them Friday but it looks like they may have to spend some extra time with Grandma.
Ellie, when is it forecasted to crest? I live in SEMO, and my daughter and I will be driving down to Little Rock in a few weeks. There are a lot of creeks and rivers to cross on the way down there...
My area is ok... I like to say we live in a "cone of protection" due to the terrain around our town. But along the Mississippi they are calling for 1993-level floods. It's going to be a long summer.
As of right now it is supposed to crest on Friday. That date keeps moving out.
Lived in KS close to 40 years and this is the closest my family has been to a tornado. Red dot is my parent’s house where my sister and some neighbors sheltered in the basement. Blue dot is my sister’s house. Green is my BiLs work where some employees saw it go by.
Lived in KS close to 40 years and this is the closest my family has been to a tornado. Red dot is my parent’s house where my sister and some neighbors sheltered in the basement. Blue dot is my sister’s house. Green is my BiLs work where some employees saw it go by.
I've live in Kansas/Missouri my whole life as well. And these ones were so close!!! My mom and brother live near legends. They were right in the path until it pulled up about a mile from their house. I live up north and it set back down just a few miles away from my house. It was like we were in some sort of bubble! It got really scary when it started multiplying into 2+ tornadoes up north.
It's so wet here (Upper Midwest) that latest planting dates for a lot of crops are passing because farmers just can't get into the fields. They're already struggling with crazy low dairy prices and Trump's made-up tariff trade crisis. They've already paid for seeds and fertilizer. If they don't have a harvest this year, banks are going to start calling in operating loans and a lot more people will go under, which leads to more of this: www.npr.org/2019/05/27/723501793/american-soil-is-increasingly-foreign-owned. I think a safe, domestic food supply will be endangered within the next 20 years.
The last two times I've been to the grocery store they're been completely out of celery, and they told me today that apparently there's a celery shortage. I'm thinking that we're probably going to start seeing a lot more shortages of things that we're used to having available as the climate gets more unpredictable.
Post by eponinepontmercy on May 29, 2019 14:26:49 GMT -5
We are on our second day of tornado watches. I've lived in the Northeast my entire life and I don't remember this ever happening before. We've had some pretty bad storms come through.
We are on our second day of tornado watches. I've lived in the Northeast my entire life and I don't remember this ever happening before. We've had some pretty bad storms come through.
My boss got a really serious phone alert and google is even giving me a warning. My coworker got notice that his kids aren't allowed to leave school. I guess one touched down in Berks County and did some damage, so Lehigh and Bucks are now on high alert. We were asked to take shelter until 4:15.