Let's Talk About the Weather - The New Temp Thread

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

Howdy!  66 now with distant thunder...expecting a lot of rain.  86?  Wow, that's higher than here!

[Taylarie]

We had some very interesting weather over the weekend here in Montana. Of course, nothing unusual, just muliple changes. It was warm and sunshine on Saturday. Yesterday we went up to the mountains, picniced, and then waited for a snowstorm to finish before the kids saddled up to head out to the Ringing Rocks. It was about an hour of sunshine and warmth. As the kids headed out it started to snow again. 4 hours later as the kids got back it was warm again. Headed home about 9pm. Hit beautiful roads on the way home, then snow, then good again. 3 hours of driving that alternated the whole way home. Wet and cool this morning.

[oufanindallas]

I have family that lives in and around Woodward, OK that was hit by a major tornado early Sunday morning.  Got word that all family members are safe and no damage.  Not so lucky for the rest of the town as over 80 houses and 13 businesses were destroyed and at least 5 folks were killed.  Awful early in the year for these types of storms.  We had about 3/4" of rain yesterday in Frisco.  Everything is green around here and all the lakes and ponds are at their limits.

[Dcookie ACE - Expert]

Glad your family is safe. They had a pic in our newspaper today of a tornado in Kansas...pretty SCARY looking one...

It's 78 here in NEPA at 10:46..so maybe it will reach 86 today.

[Uniblurb3 ACE - Master]

Yeah, I too am glad your family is ok OUfan. I'm not sure it was Woodward but saw a story on the news where the emergency/tornado warning sirens weren't working because a lightening strike may have hit the system from a quick previous storm. Sad, and what are you going to do? 113 tornados reported across the US over the weekend which is unbelievable.

Luckily the storms missed us and even the thunderstorms predicted yesterday never materialized. Cooler weather has rolled in again and back to highs in the low 60's instead of high 70's.

[jfw ACE - Professor]

35 here this morning, rain and thunderstorms predicted Wednesday thru Friday. The weekend is supposed to be sunny and cool with highs around 50 and lows in the 30's.     I WANT WARM WEATHER!!!!

[Dcookie ACE - Expert]

It was actually TOO warm yesterday..it hit 89. Today is a little better ...in the 70's and down to 36 tonight. My son even had his a/c on last night. I believe we hit a record yesterday.

[jfw ACE - Professor]

I had my AC on last month for a couple of days when it was well into the 80's. First time that's ever happened....in March!

[Dcookie ACE - Expert]

True...this weather is all goofed up this year..
no snow to speak of all winter and now this...

[oufanindallas]

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Uniblurb3 wrote:

Yeah, I too am glad your family is ok OUfan. I'm not sure it was Woodward but saw a story on the news where the emergency/tornado warning sirens weren't working because a lightening strike may have hit the system from a quick previous storm. Sad, and what are you going to do? 113 tornados reported across the US over the weekend which is unbelievable.

Luckily the storms missed us and even the thunderstorms predicted yesterday never materialized. Cooler weather has rolled in again and back to highs in the low 60's instead of high 70's.

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Woodward is about 100 miles west, north west of OKC, not a big town by any stretch of the imagination. mostly farming

[dhascall ACE - Master]

Uni - it was Woodward that had the Tornado Sirens that were not working.  They (apparently) were knocked offline by lightning, earlier in the day.  That being said, the fatalities were all in mobile homes.  This storm hit around midnight.  Regardless - if I lived in manufactured housing, I'd have a NOAA weather alert radio.  Life is too precious.  In fact, if I lived in North Texas, OK, KS, MO or NE, I'd have one, no matter what sort of structure that I lived in.  Just sad.......

Being 5 miles SW of Woodward, where those first fatalities were at, may not even had a siren, nearby.

THE TORNADO DEVELOPED APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARNETT AND

MOVED NORTHEAST. SIX STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED AS THE TORNADO MOVED

TOWARD THE WOODWARD COUNTY LINE. ONLY MINOR DAMAGE... DOWNED TREES

AND POWER POLES/LINES... WAS SEEN AS THE TORNADO MOVED OVER MAINLY

RURAL PORTIONS OF WOODWARD COUNTY. AT APPROXIMATELY 1212 AM... THE

TORNADO STRUCK TWO MOBILE HOMES 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODWARD. THE

DAMAGE HERE WAS DETERMINED TO BE EF-2 IN INTENSITY... WHICH ALSO

RESULTED IN 3 FATALITIES. THE HEAVIEST DAMAGE... RATED EF-3... WAS

REPORTED AS THE TORNADO ENTERED THE SOUTHWEST SIDES OF WOODWARD

AROUND 1218 AM. SEVERAL HOME AND BUSINESSES WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED AS

THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST. SEVERAL MORE MOBILE HOMES WERE

DESTROYED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WOODWARD... WHICH RESULTED IN 3

ADDITIONAL FATALITIES. THE TORNADO FINALLY EXITED THE CITY OF

WOODWARD AT APPROXIMATELY 1223 AM... EVENTUALLY DISSIPATING

APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES NORTH OF WOODWARD AT 1227 AM.

THIS TORNADO INFORMATION SHOULD STILL BE CONSIDERED PRELIMINARY AS

WE CONTINUE TO LOOK OVER INFORMATION.

[Uniblurb3 ACE - Master]

I thought that was Woodward where the sirens failed. I remember seeing the mayor who was standing in front of the devastation and was just dazed/speechless about the loss of life/property.

[Dcookie ACE - Expert]

This is nice...from 89 yesterday, we have a frost advisory for tonight....go figure...

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

Welcome to the Weather!

Glad nobody was hurt on the forum.  We're back to bright sun today after the heavy rain.  77 now with a predicted high of 80.  Still 60's a night, but had to turn the heater back on last night.

I like that, jfw, I WANT WARM WEATHER, LOL (like my, I HATE WINTER!).  Good one!

[dhascall ACE - Master]

The Mayor of Woodward was (understandably)on the verge of tears. 

I saw a map on facebook, from a meterologist that had an area of OK, KS and NE highlighted and although I forget what the term was, it denoted an area where storms could go from nothing on the radar to tornadic, in less than an hour.  Woodward was in that area. 

Some scoffed at the Storm Prediction Center giving 24 hour notice of a tornado outbreak.  I applaud them!  I also "like" Dr. Greg Forbes on FB - his TORCon indecies were very high for that area, too.  I do believe that things moved slower than expected and that most felt that the storms would start much earlier in the day than they did.  Nighttime tornadoes are BAD.

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

Not much you can do to predict where a tornado will hit, unlike a hurricane.

We had one in our area go down the highway and never made the news!  It took some roofs off and blew glass out of buildings, but nothing major.  That was too close for comfort and NO warning!

[RCSMG ACE - Expert]

Wind speeds in the mid 50s yesterday with temps in the 80s.  Today mild winds temps in the 50s here.

[mibrnsurg ACE - Master]

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RCSMG wrote:

Wind speeds in the mid 50s yesterday with temps in the 80s.  Today mild winds temps in the 50s here.

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Huh?  Metro got up to 71°,  City got up to 72°, temps near 80° Sunday.

Chris

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[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

81 today, 56 tonight, blue skies and bright sun!

[oufanindallas]

In fact, if I lived in North Texas, OK, KS, MO or NE, I'd have one, no matter what sort of structure that I lived in.  Just sad.......

Depending on where you live in TX, it's nearly impossible for an under ground shelter as I found out when I moved here.  However, when the wife and I finally get into a house, I'm looking really hard at a safe room for our closet.  Just need to figure out how expensive and how to go about paying for it.

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

Yeah, no basements here unless you like water! Just had a 30-minute pounding w/50 mph gusts. My Gustbuster held up, but I'm soaked to the skin including my shoes! And here I thought putting a Shamwow in the car was a dumb idea!

[Uniblurb3 ACE - Master]

So much for the nice, sunny, warm weather here. Was almost 80 yesterday and now 43 with cold rain mid-day. Nasty and no way we are going to reach 56 today as the forecast says. I'm probably going to pay for not mowing the high grass when warm/dry out.

Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
54° F | 36° F	55° F | 41° F	55° F | 37° F	61° F | 50° F	63° F | 34° F
Rain Showers 20% chance of precipitation	Partly Cloudy	Mostly Cloudy	Chance of Rain 30% chance of precipitation	Chance of Rain 60% chance of precipitation

Back to the house heating season.

[hpmsrm]

We got pretty much the same weather here also, Uni.   When I took the pooch out for his final draining around 1:20 AM the sky was clear....no wind at all.....and the temperature dropped to an overnight low of 32 degrees.  Definitely too chilly to put any tomato plants in the ground.

[hpmsrm]

WOW!  A low of 32 degrees the morning of the 21st and now, on the 25th, we are forecasted to hit a high of 92 this afternoon.  Was the human body built for this?

[jfw ACE - Professor]

Just read that April will go down in the books as being cooler than this past March, only one other time in 142 years of record keeping in Chicago has this happened.

Saw on the temperature map that the whole mid section of the country from Texas to North Dakota will be in the 80's and 90's. We're stuck in the 50's here and Saturday is supposed to be in the upper 40's with showers, no warm weather in sight through the middle of next week.

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

Still very warm here, and we're getting a bad storm now...waiting for the power to go out.

We've got new squirrel babies, 4 that I counted, and mom gave me a dirty look when I tried to take a picture!  They've really grown in the past few weeks!

[dhascall ACE - Master]

But it's a dry heat!  Yecch!

At high noon, yesterday, the air temperature in Las Vegas was 91 degrees.  The dewpoint was -21.  That 112 degree differential between dry and wet bulb readings, meant that the relative humidity was (barely) one percent! 

My sinuses hurt just thinking about it!  In 1996, from May 10th to the 14th, I was in LV.  One of those day it got to 112.  I'm not sure what the DP and RH were but my sinuses dried out in less than 24 hours and were very painful.  You also got static electricity shocks on every door.  Glad that I am not in LV, lol.

CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES   REMARKS
LAS VEGAS      SUNNY     91 -21   1 SW15G25   29.77F

[Uniblurb3 ACE - Master]

My wife loves that dry air/heat. Has sinus problems/headaches and every time she goes to SD the problems disappear.

Beautiful weather pattern here with full sun, high 70's during the day, low humidity, and cool nights. But the nights could be a little warmer since can't even leave the windows open since house cools down too much.

Nice we'll have out 1st dry weekend in a while since rains don't start again until Mon.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
73° F | 46° F	79° F | 54° F	79° F | 55° F	81° F | 57° F	79° F | 50° F
Clear	Partly Cloudy	Clear	Clear	Chance of T-storms 50% chance of precipitation

[dhascall ACE - Master]

After the cold front went through, it got REALLY mild.  I decided to barely crack the windows, last night to let some fresh air in.  Man, I FROZE!  Got down to 50 or so.

[spd2demun ACE - Expert]

82 now with an expected high of 89--low of 64 expected whereas it was 70 last night.

Can I send you our mosquitoes to kill?