Severe Weather

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

They've let kids out of school early today due to severe weather/possible tornadoes. Is this a thing that has always happened?

They called for the same weather Monday and it was just steady rain with a few alleged tornadoes that did no damage. So far the same today.

I'm pretty much at the point to where I just assume the opposite of what the weather people say on TV. Tornadoes/hail/death, mild rain. Mild rain, hail. Snowstorm, maybe a dusting. Maybe a dusting, snowed under. The fact that most got their degrees from Mississippi State makes me not believe them.

More like the timing of when its supposed to happen which anytime from now here in Myrtle. Better safe than sorry is the current thinking. Had some nasty storms in Georgia today so you are next on the list.

[CU Tiger]

Plus 1 person died in the storms Monday in Union, SC just North of Greenville.

[tarcone]

We got a bunch of rain the last week. Wednesday we got a couple inches. Then about 5 or 6 this weekend.
The Meramec river which flows right by our town is expected to crest Wednesday within a foot of 2015s record crest.
And it is supposed to rain again Wednesday.

This means my town will be under water. Again.

[JPhillips]

Any updates on tarcone? It looked pretty bad on the news.

[tarcone]

Water is going down. Another smaller crest Saturday as we got 3 more inches of rain or will by the end of tonight.

People were pretty well prepared. We went through this 14 months ago.

It didnt affect me. We live on a hill above the river. But the town was devastated again. Im not sure why the people live there.

We were under a boil water order for about 12 hours, but that has been lifted.

Schools have been closed all week. But I think those might be open tomorrow.

We have gotten more rain in the last 8 days than we normally get for the entire month of April and May combined.

[tarcone]

Here is a video from 2 days ago. This was before the crest, which was just below the record set 14 months ago.

[JPhillips]

Glad you're safe, but I feel for all of those people that were flooded.

[tarcone]

Thanks.

Yeah its not good. And I think FEMA gave the people an option to raise their houses (Stilts or build a hill) or be left out of any federal funds the next time it happened. The houses under water, the people are out of luck. Have to rely on insurance, I guess.

[molson]

There's a lot of crazy weather going on the U.S. right now. For us in Idaho - it's hot and smokey air. Pretty unpleasant to be outside and all outdoor school activities have been cancelled. But it could be worse. We're pushing towards a 200 air quality index, 300-500 is considered "hazardous", and Seeley Lake near Missoula hit 697.

https://i.redd.it/zxfrki7cf4kz.jpg

[Suicane75]

Where's Pierce Brosnan when you need him.

[CrescentMoonie]

8.1 earthquake of the southern coast of Mexico. Houses leveled in Chiapas. Tsunami warnings.

Massive earthquake strikes off Mexico coast, setting off tsunami warnings - The Washington Post

[Thomkal]

Apparently, the residents of Erie, PA all wanted snow for Christmas. They got their wish. About 33 inches on Christmas, another 19 this morning. And here in Myrtle Beach, we're "worried" about getting a little ice the next few days...

[Thomkal]

According to one of our local weather guys, it was nearly 100 degrees warmer (50F+) in Myrtle Beach than it was on the northern plains today (wind chills of -30 to -50) Crazy!

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

It's been the warmest Christmas in my lifetime and apparently since the start of temperature measuring.

But we're not getting the extremes like in the UK, it just feels like the autumn started a month and a half later and it looks like we'll see spring kick in a month and a half earlier too, reaching the unusual winterless spring-summer-summer2-autumn sequence.

I had completely forgotten about that. Two years later, reportedly it's the warmest 31st of December.

Strangely enough, 3 weeks ago we had the biggest snowfall (barely 10 inches) in about a decade. It lasted just a day or two, things were back to 'global warming normal' within 72 hours.

[nilodor]

It’s been super cold this holiday. -20 high’s pretty much the whole time. -40 with windchill tonight. Happy new year!!

[Thomkal]

Looks like we may get a whole inch of snow/ice tomorrow. Naturally the state is already closed down for it. North of us may get quite a bit more,so you all be careful tomorrow

[nilodor]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

Looks like we may get a whole inch of snow/ice tomorrow. Naturally the state is already closed down for it. North of us may get quite a bit more,so you all be careful tomorrow

Because of a bomb cyclone, wild

'Bomb cyclone' to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week - The Washington Post

[Ben E Lou]

Getting tons of pics from the Charleston area of snow. That's a HUGE deal down there. They've only had measurable snow twice in something like 27 years. (We had a storm 7 years ago when I lived there, and I was told then that it was the first time in 20 years.)

[nilodor]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Getting tons of pics from the Charleston area of snow. That's a HUGE deal down there. They've only had measurable snow twice in something like 27 years. (We had a storm 7 years ago when I lived there, and I was told then that it was the first time in 20 years.)

Couldn't imagine what it would be like to experience meaningful snow (and the associated cold temps) every couple of decades. No wonder people kind of lose their minds/aren't prepared for it.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by nilodor

Couldn't imagine what it would be like to experience meaningful snow (and the associated cold temps) every couple of decades. No wonder people kind of lose their minds/aren't prepared for it.

Well, and it's not just "people." Because it's so rare, there's no justification for the local/state governments to spend much money on equipment to handle it. Particularly when you get way down in the Lowcountry like that, you just wait for it to melt.

[Ben E Lou]

Dola...looks like the "20 years" was correct. Per the NWS Charleston, these are the top 10 single-day snowfalls recorded at Charleston Airport.

[BishopMVP]

It seems in Charlotte we'll somehow slip through the middle of this and avoid both any snow/ice from the storm and the massively cold air the middle of the country will be experiencing. (Though I do feel like a hardo telling people down here that a high of 20 isn't that bad )

[Thomkal]

Still clinging to ice here in MB, should switch over soon-snowing in the rest of the state.

[Kodos]

Weather's like a bomb, baby, got my snow pants on,
Reaching for my shovel, Doppler radar on,
Cyclone on a path, time-lapse video map,
Demolition snowstorm, we'll be freezing, man...

Polar vortex on me, in the name of snow!
Polar vortex on me, c'mon, get the day off!
Polar vortex on me, I can't get enough.

I'm shot, buried deep,
From my head to my feet, yeah.

[Thomkal]

Just went out to check on the weather and mail-very icy, not much snow yet. Mailbox and paper box have icicles on it, and the mail box is frozen shut. So no mail today Our local weather guy just updated snow totals to 3-5 inches though

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by nilodor

Couldn't imagine what it would be like to experience meaningful snow (and the associated cold temps) every couple of decades. No wonder people kind of lose their minds/aren't prepared for it.

Oh, the other thing that's interesting--and I'd forgotten about this, having moved away and being a family that did travel to the mountains frequently even when we lived in the Charleston area--is that people who've lived there all their lives and don't travel often don't *own* any winter clothes. (My recollection of winters there is that it only got below freezing maybe once or twice per winter, and extremely rarely below 25ish.) Some social media posts are out there teaching people how to craft makeshift "gloves" for their kids out of socks and ziploc bags.

[Kodos]

Don't forget to line their boots with Milbrook bread bags.

[Logan]

A mothereffing foot of snow expected here starting tomorrow morning. So much for the first GD day of spring.

[Kodos]

Pretty much how I'm feeling about things here in CT.

[JPhillips]

Our local weather guys are saying 2-6, but the NWS has us at 10-16.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Our local weather guys are saying 2-6, but the NWS has us at 10-16.

Yeah, it's been vacillating in a pretty wide range here (back up in Mass to coach for the spring!), but each of the last 2 storms have been worse than even the largest predictions (first one wet/heavy snow + high wind that brought down a ton of trees and knocked out power a lot of places, last week's light & fluffy but a full 26 inches) so fingers really crossed we don't get the worst of it this time. Especially after how much teeth pulling we had to do to get the town to plow the fields this past weekend for the start of spring seasons they're really not going to be happy if they have to do it again this weekend!

You can really see how tight that snowfall line is, and how much a move north/south can change things with the different maps here https://www.boston.com/weather/weath...y-mach-21-2018

[nilodor]

How does it work when you guys get thumped by lake effect snow in the winter? Does it hang around for weeks at a time? Or does the weather get better and you get a whole bunch of flooding?

Here we'll get a big dump of snow this time of year and it can be gone in a couple of days when a chinook rolls through. It's not unsual to have temps in the -20's (- teens F) and high teens (60's F) in the same day.

3 hours north they don't get chinooks so what snow they get they keep till spring.

[SirFozzie]

Four straight noreasters, and my new place is in the heaviest zone for all of em. Fuck Winter. Bring on spring.

[Eaglesfan27]

4-12 inches expected here.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

4-12 inches expected here.

That's what sh ... oh nevermind.

[bhlloy]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

That's what sh ... oh nevermind.

Quite the range of outcomes there

[JPhillips]

Our combined forecast from NWS, Weather.com and our local website is 60% chance of 2"-14" of snow.

[claphamsa]

im at 4-8 but 10 miles south is 2-5

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

That's what sh ... oh nevermind.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Our combined forecast from NWS, Weather.com and our local website is 60% chance of 2"-14" of snow.

I think you may end getting a little more or a little less.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by nilodor

How does it work when you guys get thumped by lake effect snow in the winter? Does it hang around for weeks at a time? Or does the weather get better and you get a whole bunch of flooding?

Here we'll get a big dump of snow this time of year and it can be gone in a couple of days when a chinook rolls through. It's not unsual to have temps in the -20's (- teens F) and high teens (60's F) in the same day.

3 hours north they don't get chinooks so what snow they get they keep till spring.

Lake effect snow is an upstate NY etc type thing. We're all coastal-ish people, and these are Nor'easters. That's a large part of why the forecasts are so volatile - being along the coast and especially with these late winter storms when the temperature is close to 32 degrees a slight temperature change can have a big effect on the type/volume of snow and movement east/west (north/south) of the jet stream can also play a big role because it affects where there is a lot of moisture. (This storm will have almost no snow further inland in New England since it'll be so dry.)

Earlier in the winter snow tends to stick around and end up in the partially melting/re-freezing cycle that sucks. Usually this late most stuff has melted and you get some flooding, but it's usually a gradual enough process and there's enough wetlands/drainage it's not a huge problem. The bad flooding for a few of these winter storms have come from storm surges that happen at high tide or when the angles of winds is just right to push a lot of water into Massachusetts Bay, or wherever. (NYC/Staten Island had that notably bad storm surge a couple years back during an August hurricane, though I don't recall any particular incident in the winter there.) You can see some of the flooding here in Boston (in a district that's only been recently built up since, you know, it's prone to flooding, but hey, $$$ - let's put the proposed Amazon HQ there too!) Seaport flooding , and down on the south shore here - South Shore flooding

[Thomkal]

Saw the pictures of the flooding going on around Baltimore right now. My heart goes out to anyone here affected by it.



Meanwhile here in Myrtle Beach we are starting to feel the effects of Alberto. Not going to be anywhere close to its path, but we are still going to get a lot of rain from it. Under a flood watch already for tomorrow-could get 2' or more. Good luck to those more in his path.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

Saw the pictures of the flooding going on around Baltimore right now. My heart goes out to anyone here affected by it.

The area being hit hardest was just overrun with a massive flood two summers ago. It's unbelievable. And not a low-lying area, not the sort of terrain that a lay person would look at and say "well, you totally had it coming, living here." The effort to bail out of round one in 2016 was massive, and now... wow.

[JPhillips]

I don't know the are real well, but we lived about 20 minutes south of there when I was in grad school. The video is unbelievable.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

The area being hit hardest was just overrun with a massive flood two summers ago. It's unbelievable. And not a low-lying area, not the sort of terrain that a lay person would look at and say "well, you totally had it coming, living here." The effort to bail out of round one in 2016 was massive, and now... wow.

I was reading somewhere that its built on a hill?

[Abe Sargent]

I live next door to Elliott City in Catonsville, and this flooding was mostly local to Baltimore and the rocky passage of downtown historical EC, not the rest to the city.

[Ksyrup]

Well, this weekend sucked. Friday, Lexington (and more specifically, Woodford County) got hit pretty hard with storms that knocked out our power. We were out of town and found out from our neighbor that our fence was mostly leveled and we lost two large trees in the back. No house damage. Came home Saturday afternoon to assess the damage and get the fence and trees cleared away, and to empty our refrigerators.

Still without power today. Luckily it hasn't been hot but the house is warm and incredibly muggy. Happy to have a cool basement to sleep in though. Hopefully the power will be on by end of day tomorrow.

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

I had completely forgotten about that. Two years later, reportedly it's the warmest 31st of December.

Strangely enough, 3 weeks ago we had the biggest snowfall (barely 10 inches) in about a decade. It lasted just a day or two, things were back to 'global warming normal' within 72 hours.

We're going through the driest spell in over a century. The last rainfall in my hometown was 8 weeks ago (at least where I live), which actually was a short and heavy one, with unusual scenes of flooded streets.

Sample size be damned, it's been unfamiliar weather here for the last 12 or so months.

[Thomkal]

Major earthquake off the coast of Fiji today-8.2 Thankfully too deep to be a tsunami threat

[tarcone]

But not too deep for Godzilla to appear.