Weather Phenomena

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I put this is Current Events because I don't know where else to put it. Mods please move if necessary.

This is what was happening in the sky last night, along with a tornado about 85 miles north of me. This is called "strobe lightning", and I find it pretty exciting to watch, as long as it's far enough away to not be a menace. All I heard was faraway continuous rumbling of thunder. This is the normal early summer weather here, but it's really extended itself this year. The area around the tornado got 7 to 8 inches of rain.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I put this is Current Events because I don't know where else to put it. Mods please move if necessary.

This is what was happening in the sky last night, along with a tornado about 85 miles north of me. This is called "strobe lightning", and I find it pretty exciting to watch, as long as it's far enough away to not be a menace. All I heard was faraway continuous rumbling of thunder. This is the normal early summer weather here, but it's really extended itself this year. The area around the tornado got 7 to 8 inches of rain.

Need to come up with with some technology to capture and store that lightening electric!

We just get the odd flash and then clap of thunder in the UK, nothing like what you get

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Need to come up with with some technology to capture and store that lightening electric!

We just get the odd flash and then clap of thunder in the UK, nothing like you you get

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We certainly have no shortage of lightning here!

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[The Irish Ram]

I absolutely LOVE THAT!!!!!!!!

 

[Frankenstein]

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We certainly have no shortage of lightning here!

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They are most definitely engineering weather

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

They are most definitely engineering weather

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I was born and raised here and I don't remember any weather like this in my childhood. Yes, we had tornadoes, but there have been two in the last week! Last night, the storm did property damage, and one farmer who got his barn torn up also lost a horse. The one we had last week did major damage and took some lives.

It is most definitely not the weather of my childhood.


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[Frankenstein]

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I was born and raised here and I don't remember any weather like this in my childhood. Yes, we had tornadoes, but there have been two in the last week! Last night, the storm did property damage, and one farmer who got his barn torn up also lost a horse. The one we had last week did major damage and took some lives.

It is most definitely not the weather of my childhood.


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The flooding is the key, the torrential downpours all the time are not normal! Sorry to hear about your property damage. We took a hit back in 2011

 

[Captain Caveman]

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I was born and raised here and I don't remember any weather like this in my childhood. Yes, we had tornadoes, but there have been two in the last week! Last night, the storm did property damage, and one farmer who got his barn torn up also lost a horse. The one we had last week did major damage and took some lives.

It is most definitely not the weather of my childhood.


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We're just on the planet for a tiny tiny tiny snippet of the earth's history. So time outside of our lifetime just means your area could have gone through weather spells much much much worse in the last thousand, million, or billion years!

I remember as a kid, the tree in the field behind my parents house got struck by lightning. You could see burning embers for a few days.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The flooding is the key, the torrential downpours all the time are not normal! Sorry to hear about your property damage. We took a hit back in 2011

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We're lucky this year, where I live. No bad storms yet. The closest bad storm this year was 75 miles from me.

Last year we had some considerable flooding, but not as bad as they had down in Iowa. Spencer IA is still struggling to recover. A couple of my farming friends lost some hay last year. Some folks about 10 or 12 miles from me lost whole corn and soybean crops.

It's crazy.

What part of the country and what kind of storm did you get in 2011?

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[Frankenstein]

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We're lucky this year, where I live. No bad storms yet. The closest bad storm this year was 75 miles from me.

Last year we had some considerable flooding, but not as bad as they had down in Iowa. Spencer IA is still struggling to recover. A couple of my farming friends lost some hay last year. Some folks about 10 or 12 miles from me lost whole corn and soybean crops.

It's crazy.

What part of the country and what kind of storm did you get in 2011?

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Ohio, Tornado

 

[Captain Caveman]

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We're lucky this year, where I live. No bad storms yet. The closest bad storm this year was 75 miles from me.

Last year we had some considerable flooding, but not as bad as they had down in Iowa. Spencer IA is still struggling to recover. A couple of my farming friends lost some hay last year. Some folks about 10 or 12 miles from me lost whole corn and soybean crops.

It's crazy.

What part of the country and what kind of storm did you get in 2011?

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Cumbria, putting buckets under the downspout to catch water when it rained hard. Then diving into snow drifts as kids in winter. Rarely get snow now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Cumbria, putting buckets under the downspout to catch water when it rained hard. Then diving into snow drifts as kids in winter. Rarely get snow now.

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Snow levels have changed radically here, since my childhood. I don't remember a Christmas without snow as a kid, but we get brown winters with fierce cold now.


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[Captain Caveman]

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Snow levels have changed radically here, since my childhood. I don't remember a Christmas without snow as a kid, but we get brown winters with fierce cold now.


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My birthday is in November, used to get snow several times, and quite deep. One year I got an electric speedboat toy as a present and I tried it in the snow. When my kids were growing up, as soon as it snowed, I kept them off school to play in it. Lucky to get snow once or twice a year now, but tbh, I don't miss it.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

My birthday is in November, used to get snow several times, and quite deep. One year I got an electric speedboat toy as a present and I tried it in the snow. When my kids were growing up, as soon as it snowed, I kept them off school to play in it. Lucky to get snow once or twice a year now, but tbh, I don't miss it.

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A couple of winters ago, we got enough snow to create crazy drifts, enough so I couldn't let the dog out in the back yard unless I put her on a long lead, because I couldn't walk through it if I'd have had to go dig her out. Sure does make very beautiful sculptures when it gets windblown.


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[WEATHER53]

Outer space aliens see all that lightning and say forget it and invade somewhere else.

 

[BothWings]

I put this is Current Events because I don't know where else to put it. Mods please move if necessary.

This is what was happening in the sky last night, along with a tornado about 85 miles north of me. This is called "strobe lightning", and I find it pretty exciting to watch, as long as it's far enough away to not be a menace. All I heard was faraway continuous rumbling of thunder. This is the normal early summer weather here, but it's really extended itself this year. The area around the tornado got 7 to 8 inches of rain.

If only we could harness and store all that .