+mizapf Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Continuing my previous thread (I am dreaming of...) Some extreme weather in Germany on May 20, 2022 near Paderborn (somewhere in the middle of Germany). So we do have such conditions from time to time, but luckily not too often, and as I heard, no fatalities and only a few injuries here. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 it's really freaking scary! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Might want to remind your countrymen to stay away from windows during a tornado. Not gonna say anything about the poor fekker trapped in his car, though. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 My dad survived a major tornado in the southern USA in the early 2000s. The mobile home park next to his house was destroyed, and his house was shifted on its foundation. A few years later another one came within blocks of my sister's house. Over a decade later, much of that neighborhood is still empty and uninhabited, they never rebuilt the houses. It's a little scary to think how temporary all of our material things are. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humeur Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I'm sad to think that this is only the beginning of the climatic phenomena. jl 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Frightening, for sure. 20+ years ago my family and I were outside and noticed the sky had turned a sickly shade of green. The tornado warning sirens for the region activated around the same time. We did not see the funnel cloud form but knew that shelter was necessary, so we all went to the basement. Five or ten minutes later, we heard what many people describe as the noise of a freight train and felt tremors as the storm passed. When we returned upstairs, the house was fine but a large pine tree 20-30 feet from the house had been sheered off - the top of the tree was nowhere to be found. The large barn 300 feet (roughly 100meter) from our property was completely destroyed, all that remained was its original stone foundation. Other houses and barns in the area had also been destroyed. I still think about how close that tornado touched down to our home. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 21, 2022 Author Share Posted May 21, 2022 What about this as a contrast? Photo taken this evening outside of our house near Frankfurt. (By the way, not post-processed, just as delivered by the camera.) 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 When I lived in Illinois in the late 90's, a tornado touched down in my backyard. We had just moved from New York City and had never experienced that. I remember hearing this loud roar and the house shook for about maybe 4-5 seconds then it went away and we had no clue what that was about. Then a few minutes later the neighbors ran to our house to check on us and that's when we found out a tornado had touched down. For weeks they kept bringing us bits and pieces of my kids' swing set and play shed Needless to say the very next day we bought a weather radio... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddemann Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Halden (Norway), some 40 km from my place. 20.05.2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 22, 2022 Author Share Posted May 22, 2022 What I did not notice at first in the tornado clip above: Watch at 5:20 min, and see how the whole roof of the opposite building is ripped off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 20 hours ago, mizapf said: What about this as a contrast? Photo taken this evening outside of our house near Frankfurt. (By the way, not post-processed, just as delivered by the camera.) Spectacular! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Here in southern Ontario, over the weekend we had something come in from Michigan and it got stronger as it moved eastward. Where I live, 1Hr from the border, a lot of trees took out power lines. We lost power for about 16 hours. Power teams were swamped. By the time it hit the Quebec border 8 people had died and some major transmissions lines had folded. (250KV type) One town was really hit hard. Uxbridge Ontario storm 2022 - Google Search 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 Extremely clear view today. The communications tower on the mountain range near the right edge is 14km away (8.7 miles). You can even spot single trees. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 View from our Orlando hotel room yesterday as hurricane Ian slowly approached... Everything fine here, except for being on 'house arrest' for the first time since decades... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 3 hours ago, SteveB said: View from our Orlando hotel room yesterday as hurricane Ian slowly approached... Not much of a view ... 😕 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 We just had a teeny bit of Hurricane Ian Tuesday. Got a Ton of rain but not much wind. It’s actually starting to cool off down here. The temps in South Florida tend to be 90+ degrees from about April through October, often getting to the upper 90’s with 90% humidity. The summers here are *brutal* but the “fever” tends to break sometime in October. We get about 4 mos or so of gorgeous weather, then back into the 90’s. BUT it beats the hell out of shoveling snow. We were just in Key West last weekend. Really pretty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Here is my brush with Ian. I am way away from its tantrum, but it was large enough to cover the entire state (pretty normal,) so I got the very outer edges of wind: about 8mph steady with gusts around 17mph or so. Along with that comes the eerie orange-pink glow at dusk as a hurricane approaches. This is the evening before landfall. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 And I thought you had a white balance problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 8 hours ago, mizapf said: And I thought you had a white balance problem. The picture does not do the coloring justice. If I have a chance again, I am going to use the 16mm lens over a better landscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 So much for easing into winter here in the Houston Texas area. The forecast calls for a low temperature of 16F. I spent the afternoon chasing two sheets down the street because I had not properly weighted them down. (The sheets are meant to protect a few tender plants that probably won't survive the cold). Hopefully, everyone affected by this extreme weather is staying safe and warm. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 This is a graph from my own built sensor application, running for some days, and proving that our weather has a better memory than I have. It always remembers to switch to thaw at Christmas, even though we had some cold temperatures a week before. "Dreaming of a White Christmas" is something like a lottery and occurs at most once every five years. (As always, the zero °C is the freezing point.) Remember that I am located at 51°N, the same latitude as Calgary. Technical details: The sensor is a ESP32 chip with a DS18B20 temperature sensor, transmitting a value by WiFi every 30 seconds, collected on a NUC server as one file per day. The graph is an output of gnuplot. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 7 this morning in south Arkansas. I wonder what happens if I throw hot cooking oil into the air, not water..hmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 -8 here now, with a high of 9 today. With wind chill, it feels like -29. We got 3 inches of snow yesterday. Water lines at work were froze, so everyone sent home. Next week looks better though, with temps back up in the 30-45 range in the daytime. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 We're at 48 right now. We'll be getting to 18 in the morning at 7am, next week back up to the 60-70 range for new years, in southeast Georgia. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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