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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

JNA said:
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Thus far we're not getting "dirty rain" in North Texas (the fires are west-northwest of me and the wind is drifting the smoke northeast), but they said we may get the smoke this weekend.

The fire is now 1.3 Rhode Islands big, the biggest wildfire in Texas history, and blowing into Oklahoma.
 
From the Flower Mound Fire Department (Flower Mound is a suburb in the DFW area):
At one point, the crew was assigned to check a neighborhood near Canadian, TX. Numerous homes in the neighborhood were already on fire and the crew was making sure people had evacuated. At one home, an elderly resident was located who wasn’t able to leave on her own and the front and rear of the house were already on fire. [Firefighter] Roberson brought the resident out of the house while [Battalion Commander] Woody and FF Weems knocked down enough fire to create a safe exit. The resident was safely evacuated, but unfortunately her home was lost to the fire.
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WOW from NWS

Blizzard Warning in California High country

WHAT...Extremely dangerous to impossible travel from blizzard conditions into Saturday morning. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 10 feet above 5000 feet, local amounts of 12 feet or more over peaks, with 1 to 4 feet above 3000 feet through Sunday morning. Minor accumulations down to around 2000 feet. Winds gusting as high as 75 mph or higher.
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A friend with his family got totally anialated by a hailstorm in their car in Central Illinois yesterday. Vehicle totally destroyed. They are seriously lucky to be alive.
 
TOFB said:
A friend with his family got totally anialated by a hailstorm in their car in Central Illinois yesterday. Vehicle totally destroyed. They are seriously lucky to be alive.
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That must have been terrifying. I'm glad your friends are ok. I can't imagine it.
 
Ski resorts still open...
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My wife went up to New York to visit her family over spring break. Her flight up was 3 hours late due to weather. Coming back Saturday, the weather was pretty bad here in DFW, rain all day. She was an hour late. I'lll call that a win.
 
Hoping the rain yesterday washed the last of the pollen off. All my cars were yellow.

They're saying we might hit the mid 80s over the weekend/early next week.
 
We got clipped this morning by the strong storm system moving through the country today. There was concern it could present "all hazards" during the overnight here, but mostly stayed just north of us. At least, until I was getting out of the shower, when the hardest rain I think I've ever heard started. Frankly, I was convinced we were in a hailstorm it was so loud on my roof. I was rather surprised when I could get to a window and there was not a yard filled with hailstones.

It's now clearing so we can heat the environment up ahead of the next round of storms. Joy. :omg:
 
I'm back from 12 days of near-perfect weather in Southwest Florida and reminded why I hate this time of year in Metro Detroit. Lousy Smarch weather!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I'm back from 12 days of near-perfect weather in Southwest Florida and reminded why I hate this time of year in Metro Detroit. Lousy Smarch weather!
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I think it might be Smapril now or something. With the mild winter I thought it would be in the 70s by now, but snow predicted tomorrow.
 
I believe a tornado formed behind a wall cloud in a cemetery across the street from my house yesterday. Minutes after it formed, it knocked over two semi-trucks about 1.5 miles due east of my home and damaged homes in The Town Next DoorTM. It was wild - rain falling horizontally about 1,000' from us. A large flock of birds hastily fleeing the rain. My neighbor's recycling barrel lifted fully 20' in the air, it's contents scattered everywhere. And mere moments later, pea sized hail mashing against my picture window.

It was truly wild.
 
It has been snowing all morning in my part of Chicagoland today.

Nothing's sticking, but it's still weird.
 
Gedunker said:
I believe a tornado formed behind a wall cloud in a cemetery across the street from my house yesterday. Minutes after it formed, it knocked over two semi-trucks about 1.5 miles due east of my home and damaged homes in The Town Next DoorTM. It was wild - rain falling horizontally about 1,000' from us. A large flock of birds hastily fleeing the rain. My neighbor's recycling barrel lifted fully 20' in the air, it's contents scattered everywhere. And mere moments later, pea sized hail mashing against my picture window.

It was truly wild.
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Hail....weird looking clouds...horizontal rain....big things knocked over.....that does seem characteristic of the localized weather events one associates with tornados
 
Pretty much heart attack/ snowman snow, roads were plowed yesterday morning and have stayed clear with a bit of salt.

Skied the aftermath of the storm this morning before work with my son. The hill's been closed for a bit but the coverage was decent. Probably my last day of the season unless we go skinning somewhere else.

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Faust_Motel said:
Pretty much heart attack/ snowman snow, roads were plowed yesterday morning and have stayed clear with a bit of salt.

Skied the aftermath of the storm this morning before work with my son. The hill's been closed for a bit but the coverage was decent. Probably my last day of the season unless we go skinning somewhere else.
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MD Planner said:
Ummm wut?
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Traction for uphill ski travel when you're going where thelifts don't go or are closed. Stick 'em on your skis and go uphill. They are furry like petting a cat the wrong way. Called skins because they used to be made out of seal skin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_skins (Ski skins - Wikipedia)
 
Faust_Motel said:
Traction for uphill ski travel when you're going where thelifts don't go or are closed. Stick 'em on your skis and go uphill. They are furry like petting a cat the wrong way. Called skins because they used to be made out of seal skin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_skins (Ski skins - Wikipedia)
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I mean, we could be out checking a trapline like the pioneers (my second-grade substitute teacher was an avid trapper and had the biggest most muscular forearms I had ever seen from chopping all her own firewood and skining what she trapped- she was quick with the ruler, too!)
 
Faust_Motel said:
I mean, we could be out checking a trapline like the pioneers (my second-grade substitute teacher was an avid trapper and had the biggest most muscular forearms I had ever seen from chopping all her own firewood and skining what she trapped- she was quick with the ruler, too!)
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Was she also a nun?
 
High winds and working on the edge of civilization = tumbleweeds. Just got back from driving around and it is a real-life Frogger experience.
 
Fourth straight day in the 80s in the mid-Ohio River Valley, both outside and inside my office.:what:
 
I was gonna sow my warm weather seeds and transplant this weekend. Then I checked the forecast and it looks like there's a fair chance of frost the middle of next week.
 
COLD here. In the upper 30s/low 40s here and grey, and rainy, and windy. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy again. Not looking like good weather for Itty Bitty's game. :(
 
dandy_warhol said:
COLD here. In the upper 30s/low 40s here and grey, and rainy, and windy. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy again. Not looking like good weather for Itty Bitty's game. :(
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Shouldn't you be using Celsius temps?
 
The tornadoes in Oklahoma yesterday hit my wife's cousin's neighborhood. There house is intact; their grill blew off the porch but that was all. A block over homes were demolished.

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This is not weather but is like it.

How many here can hear the double whammy cicada impact?

Here it is, to quote Bob Dylan's Day of the Locusts, "that high whining trill".

An entomology professor friend called it an "alien invader sound". She said points south of us she visited the bugs covered the ground and crawled up people's legs.
 
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