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NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

My local weather station has been spamming infos about tornadoes and all that since last week lmao.

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NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Protip: make as much ice you can right now. You can create a make-shift swamp cooler with some ice, a fan, and a container of some kind.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

I kinda wonder how long it will be before we all collectively believe that Santa Claus has always lived at the South Pole?

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

All of the weather nerds were saying that the forecast model was completely wacked and to just ignore it.

I'll be laughing if the model turns out to be very conservative

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Platystemon posted:

Yeah that approaches the physical limit of what’s possible anywhere on the planet.

Physical is not the same as historically recorded.

It certainly can go much hotter than that since we know that for several millions of years, Earth did not have any polar cap ice at all. We're very well on our way to that.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

It's far easier to survive extreme cold than it is to survive extreme heat.

The entirety of Texas saw like about 115 people die from the cold that was more than a week event while BC is just now reporting 230 deaths (and they've haven't really gotten to look around for more) for couple of days of heat. Pretty conclusive which is worse

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

This is kinda neat to watch.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSSanAntonio/status/1413563326693613574

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

TehSaurus posted:

Really worried about how exactly climate change is going to gently caress us! I feel like its going to be a flood. I'm just outside a '1000 year' flood plain on the FEMA maps so I'm assuming it will be that.

Funny you should say that since Austin is already at the 5th spot record for most rainfall locally for the month of July already.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Kazinsal posted:

I continue to be baffled at the idea of a water pipeline when canals were invented six thousand years ago

Anybody can just simply walk into a canal and just take a drink of water whenever they want to.

With a pipeline, nobody can steal a drop of water.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

shirts and skins posted:

On the good news side, Ida is a smaller storm than Katrina was. Could limit wind damage and storm surge.

https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1431638228059115521?s=19

So instead of having a shotgun go off in front of you, we'll get a 9mm to the head. Seems like a good thing!

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

So uh... if the government is totally just shrugging at the hurricane, what's happening with all of the homeless?

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Won't even amount to much of any rain in Austin.

Far too many bougies live here nowadays to allow any flooding to occurs. They'll just activate the rain dome shield.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

TehSaurus posted:

Wait where do I buy one of these? Someone is holding out.

Honestly pretty sure I'm going to die in a historic rain event if we don't move soon. If that Italy thing had happened here I'd already be dead!

Are you down near Onion Creek in any way? Because yeah, you probably want to think about getting a hotel for a few days.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Cold front my rear end. It never went below 70 yesterday. I would call it slightly at room temperature front.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Just how normal is it for Hawaii to get blizzard warning?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnnyParker012/status/1466602994678571013

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Xenophanes posted:

I’m out on my porch in short sleeves watching the first real waves of this storm rolling in, enjoying the 30 above average temps. Honestly doesn’t feel much different from any other July thunderstorm, what’s all the fuss about.

It's December man.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

At least it's somewhat heartwarming to finally see half of the country all get the same weather event. We'll all share in the same misery together as one ❤

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

A Cat 5 hurricane isn't all that really scary. We already have buildings and roads that can stand up to a Cat 5 so it's not like it's human civilization ending weather at all. It make sense to add another number just to represent how amazing the advancement we've made in building material and construction, and how stronger the hurricanes are nowadays with climate change.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Y'all keep saying that a Cat 5 is terrifying and it will wipe away buildings.

Yet Hurricane Michael hit the Florida panhandle and people still live there. Mexico City in Florida got hit by it and it still exist on the map.

Kinda doesn't seem like a Cat 5 actually is that dangerous as y'all claims it to be. There should be a Cat 6 for those hurricane that *does* wipe everything away.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

FlamingLiberal posted:

Mexico Beach (where Michael made landfall) had almost all of its buildings destroyed

Exactly my point. It should wipe *all* buildings away.

Mild destruction isn't not quite that terrible.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

FlamingLiberal posted:

one of the few buildings to survive was specifically built to survive a major hurricane

That's the point I'm making. We've improved our construction and building code. A Cat 5 is no longer capable of wiping away *all* human man-made buildings.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

ekuNNN posted:

I guess a massive swarm of parrots misjudging the distance to the ground is a kind of weather?
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r75ek9VqsC1r0uzl6.mp4

That's just some error in those murmurations. Sometime they accidentally just follow each other down to the ground.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51880855

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnnyParker012/status/1505929791433809921

Probably will end up being a nothingburger, but I'm rooting for Mother Nature to pull off a trifecta!

NeonPunk has issued a correction as of 18:07 on Mar 21, 2022

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Dustcat posted:

here in central texas we had a 100% chance of rain this morning and it hasn't rained a drop, it's 92 degrees out there and the sun's beating down and not a cloud nearby on the weather radar

and now alexa just gave a tornado watch

somebody's models are hosed

Yeah seriously. It's all sunny out right now. The weather people I follow keep on yammering about "breaking the cap" or whatever.

What do those nerds know amiright?

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

https://mobile.twitter.com/pgbrown92/status/1514020806053011458

Y'all know everything is always bigger in Texas :clint:

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Lmao. Texas nearly got *another* black out today.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattlargey/status/1525241085081096192

And tomorrow is supposed to get even warmer for the next several days.

On one hand it'll really loving suck for me to have to go through this heat with no AC. On the other hand it'll be hilarious if the power goes off in the middle of Trump's rally in Austin

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

i say swears online posted:

Does it still serve a purpose or has it been replaced by neosporin in cost or effectiveness?

Not everyone can use neosporin unfortunately. Most people find out that they are allergic to one of the antibiotics in it after using it

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

It's kinda weird to see this affecting such a huge swatch of the country.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1527709953791860736

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

SirPablo posted:

That's a pretty fast track. Won't have much time to develop or drop a shitload of rain.

Huh-uh.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jpetramala/status/1532982886932131842

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I'm pretty sure aviation authorities in the Middle East have done the math on that.

Pretty sure that they only did the math on normal weight people and not on America weight people.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Nobody posted this yet?

https://mobile.twitter.com/eperea/status/1536384707717263361

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Meanwhile funny enough, the Texas grid and everyone's rear end is saved by wind and solar. They've been putting out overexpected amount of power.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Speaking of Arizona

https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1539112394357719041

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Maybe we get to see a suprise hurricane pop up out of nowhere this year

https://mobile.twitter.com/TropicalTidbits/status/1540376862806769665

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

https://mobile.twitter.com/MJVentrice/status/1541808138982146049

Hellllll yeaaah, let's goooo!

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Looks like Houston is gonna have a tiny mini Harvey this weekend

https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSWGRFC/status/1542559702525124612

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Gripweed posted:

Can't everyone just stay inside?

But that's the same thing as a lockdown. What do you have against freedom?

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Lmao that the average ensemble still spell out doomsday, only for Spain and Portugal instead

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

TehSaurus posted:

Just lmao at anyone who actually believed any of this was fixed

Oh but they did got fixed! The middle man energy distribution companies got bailed out.


Oh you meant the physical grid itself? Lmao

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NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Forget Texas, I'm more interested in this

https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewjustinWX/status/1546499668217106435

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