Weatherdammerung 2024: I didn't expect it to get this weird and bad this soon

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Demon Of The Fall: May 1, 2004; Nap Ghost

SirPablo posted:

Southeast snow potential. Usual - power outages, difficult travels, people falling.

my wife's sister texted earlier said they were expected to get 17 inches of snow in Virginia, lol

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:27

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# ? May 30, 2024 21:11

Crunchy Black: Oct 24, 2017; by Athanatos

6 inches of snow on the banks of Lake Lanier is catafuckingstrophic. 4 inches in Atlanta? LMFAO

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:34

RadiRoot: Feb 3, 2007

AOCIA posted:

god hates chicago apparently

god is Lori Lightfoot?

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:35

A Bakers Cousin: Dec 18, 2003; by vyelkin

Crunchy Black posted:

6 inches of snow on the banks of Lake Lanier is catafuckingstrophic. 4 inches in Atlanta? LMFAO

lol this was north carolina in 2014?

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:37

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

Tim Kaine grimly preparing to get stuck on I95 for 54 hours for no particular reason.

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:40

Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

A Bakers Cousin posted:

lol this was north carolina in 2014?

lmao @ this picture

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:42

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Radirot posted:

right around my birthday, nice!

# ? Jan 12, 2022 23:51

Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009

A Bakers Cousin posted:

lol this was north carolina in 2014?

# ? Jan 13, 2022 00:24

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

WaryWarren posted:

gently caress. off.

https://twitter.com/blizzardof96/status/1481367773578149891

I wonder if we can get a packers home game in then.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 00:38

ZeusCannon: Nov 5, 2009; BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH; Grimey Drawer

Relevant Tangent posted:

Tim Kaine grimly preparing to get stuck on I95 for 54 hours for no particular reason.

This made me laugh. Heres hoping everyone just stays the gently caress home this time.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 02:40

robot roll call: Mar 7, 2006; dance dance dance dance dance to the radio

tiberion02 posted:

gently caress, now the climate has come for me

yup, I am pretty much in the direct middle of that

so this is going to be worse than that polar vortex 3 years ago where they had to light the train tracks on fire in chicago?

# ? Jan 13, 2022 02:57

smoobles: Sep 4, 2014

It's cool that we get to use badass terms like polar vortex and heat dome now. Weather used to be so boring.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 03:31

A Bakers Cousin: Dec 18, 2003; by vyelkin

smoobles posted:

It's cool that we get to use badass terms like polar vortex and heat dome now. Weather used to be so boring.

Yeah Im a big fan of the term I learned thanks to this insanity, atmospheric river events!

# ? Jan 13, 2022 03:34

Vladimir Poutine: Aug 13, 2012

Some town in Queensland had 600mm/23 inches of rain on Friday night
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/dallarnil-recovery-continues-following-tsunami-like-wave/100752516

quote:

In the early hours of Saturday about 600 millimetres of rainfall was recorded at Dallarnil north of Gympie.

Dallarnil resident Tiarna Bramich and her partner were woken by the downpour shortly after midnight when their house began to shake.

"We thought the house was going to take off," she said.

"It didn't look too bad outside so we thought we could make it to higher ground and then we got out along the house and then there was just this big wave.

"It was up to our hips and all of a sudden it was over my head."

quote:

The couple climbed a water tank to escape the torrent.

"We were trying to stay above water � my feet got stuck in a fence and it kind of pulled me under," Ms Bramich said.

"If my partner wasn't there, there is no way I would have survived that. He pushed me into a tree and the tanks were right next to it.

"We got up there, we thought we were safe and then the tank just took off.

"It all happened in the blink of an eye."

quote:

"We called our families and said goodbye because we didn't think we would make it off there. It was hard hearing them on the other side of the phone very upset.

"That was the hardest thing."

They fought to stay alive, before being rescued by neighbours four hours later.

"We were on the first tank � and then that just took off, so we jumped on a second tank and then we thought we were safe," Ms Bramich said.

"It stuck for like two minutes and then that one just took off.

"Two trees fell down and the tank got stuck in there, so we didn't move."

quote:

North Dallarnil Rural Fire Brigade First Officer Max Pearce said they are unsure of where the tsunami-like wave came from.

"We had very little warning, but I've been told is that the water was flowing through and then all of a sudden there was a wall of water that came down," he said.

"It has shifted concrete tanks full of water, it shifted 5,000-gallon poly tanks full of water and probably 18 cars in the town impacted by the floodwaters.

"I've heard there are a couple of dams that let go, but nobody is saying that was what caused the influx of water."

# ? Jan 13, 2022 03:52

F Stop Fitzgerald: Dec 12, 2010

robot roll call posted:

so this is going to be worse than that polar vortex 3 years ago where they had to light the train tracks on fire in chicago?

doesnt look like it will be that bad at all if you are used to great lakes weather. that a week of single digit-teen temperatures in january in michigan isn't the norm is what is notable

# ? Jan 13, 2022 04:12

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

WaryWarren posted:

gently caress. off.

https://twitter.com/blizzardof96/status/1481367773578149891

yeah it's gonna be pretty drat cold here in the twin cities, though we had something similar last February, and a few January's ago the windchill got down to -58 lol

# ? Jan 13, 2022 04:41

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

So about that Great Lakes climate resiliency.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 04:45

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Platystemon posted:

So about that Great Lakes climate resiliency.

its more that the climate has always been extreme

# ? Jan 13, 2022 04:54

Crunchy Black: Oct 24, 2017; by Athanatos

snowpocalypse. Atlanta. 2011. the city shutdown for a week.

I don�t recall if this picture is from it and it doesn�t look like any intersection I know offhand. but yeah expect this if we get snow here.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 05:09

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

Sorry everyone, its because my dumb parents are stuck overwintering in Michigan for the first time in 7 years and god needs to teach them a lesson

# ? Jan 13, 2022 05:13

Gunshow Poophole: Sep 14, 2008; OMBUDSMAN
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

doesnt look like it will be that bad at all if you are used to great lakes weather. that a week of single digit-teen temperatures in january in michigan isn't the norm is what is notable

it�s this, this poo poo was downright mundane thirty years ago. heck it was mundane fifteen years ago but clearly starting to pop off

now it�s just getting normalized to NOT be this cold lol

# ? Jan 13, 2022 06:27

FUCK COREY PERRY: Apr 19, 2008

smoobles posted:

It's cool that we get to use badass terms like polar vortex and heat dome now. Weather used to be so boring.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Yeah Im a big fan of the term I learned thanks to this insanity, atmospheric river events!

v excited to see what else enters my lexicon by 2023

i'm guessing "rogue dust event"

# ? Jan 13, 2022 06:46

SirPablo: May 1, 2004; Pillbug

It's very common for sprawling upper level lows to sit over the Hudson Bay and Great Lakes region. That said, there is definitely a strong signal in the extended range weather models that the last ten days of January will be "cold in the east, warm in the west" kind of weather. Also Alaska would be quite warm.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 07:29

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

v excited to see what else enters my lexicon by 2023

i'm guessing "rogue dust event"

atmospheric wildfire

# ? Jan 13, 2022 07:46

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

v excited to see what else enters my lexicon by 2023

i'm guessing "rogue dust event"

spider infused winds

# ? Jan 13, 2022 09:00

Teriyaki Hairpiece: Dec 29, 2006; I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

v excited to see what else enters my lexicon by 2023

i'm guessing "rogue dust event"

Temporary wind effusion
Unexpected fire surplus
Unplanned water

# ? Jan 13, 2022 09:16

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

v excited to see what else enters my lexicon by 2023

i'm guessing "rogue dust event"

�scouring incident�

# ? Jan 13, 2022 09:33

redleader: Aug 18, 2005; Engage according to operational parameters

WaryWarren posted:

gently caress. off.

https://twitter.com/blizzardof96/status/1481367773578149891

weather understanders: is this actual temperature values, or is it the difference from the historical average temperature? the title of this chart is "temperature anomaly" so i'd naively expect the latter, but people itt are kinda talking like it's the former?

# ? Jan 13, 2022 12:12

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

It is the latter.

How warm did you think Alaska was getting?

# ? Jan 13, 2022 13:54

Red Baron: Mar 9, 2007; ty slumfrog

Crunchy Black posted:

snowpocalypse. Atlanta. 2011. the city shutdown for a week.

I don�t recall if this picture is from it and it doesn�t look like any intersection I know offhand. but yeah expect this if we get snow here.

that picture is from NC but the 85/75 connector downtown definitely looked like that. I managed to beat the storm home by about an hour, my boss was stuck on the interstate until about 10AM the next morning.

FWIW while my weather app went nuts yesterday suggesting 4� of snow here yesterday, it has since rescinded that to a modest .3� (surrounded by freezing rain lmao)

this weekend is gonna be interesting

# ? Jan 13, 2022 14:20

RandomBlue: Dec 30, 2012; hay guys!; Biscuit Hider

Raine posted:

spider infused winds

Those are the good spiders, they eat the bad spiders like brown recluses.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 15:45

SirPablo: May 1, 2004; Pillbug

redleader posted:

weather understanders: is this actual temperature values, or is it the difference from the historical average temperature? the title of this chart is "temperature anomaly" so i'd naively expect the latter, but people itt are kinda talking like it's the former?

It is a five day average of the temperature deviation from average at 850 mb (which is about 5000' MSL).

# ? Jan 13, 2022 17:08