Good luck to the Ohio Valley folks tonight and tomorrow. Looks like we are in for some crazy weather for a bit.
Good luck to the Ohio Valley folks tonight and tomorrow. Looks like we are in for some crazy weather for a bit.
Right!
Supposedly we might get that here in Chicago too. Last time we got one I didn't have power for 3 weeks.
Should be fun....
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/local/montgomery/severe-weather-threat-wednesday#.UbjZ1yqvk3k
Huh, I figured this was just another Weather Channel crock of E36 M3, like naming winter storm systems in order to gain ratings.
Either way, from a rural dweller, quit yer bitchin pansies. We would prefer to not get hail though......crops are already coming up.
Perfect. My fiancee has the other side of the garage blocked w/ paver stones and pallets.
Today is the first time i've heard the term "Derecho." I'm still not sure what it means.
In reply to Swank Force One:
WIND WIND WIND WIND WIND.......and other ghey stuff. Basically they are saying it is a long line of severe thunderstorms.
Same here, never heard of a derecho till now. I've seen a few straight line thunderstorms, but nothing that's as severe as they are claiming this thing will be.
Hey! I know! The Midwest TV weather guys are jealous of the Eastern guys with their hurricanes and the Western guys with their blizzards so they dreamed this up for ratings! 
In reply to Curmudgeon: I thought that's why we had tornadoes in Feb, monsoon rains until may, record drought & extreme temps, and blizzards by Christmas in Indiana alone last year.....
Swank Force One wrote: Today is the first time i've heard the term "Derecho." I'm still not sure what it means.
I think they make shocks for off-road trucks.
Oh that's right. I have Derecho rs9000XL remote adjustable shocks on my Cherokee.
Is this like a microburst? I've seen one of those. That E36 M3 is berkeleyed.
They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".
Damn, I should be watching CNN to see if there's live coverage of the ass-kicking. I love me some severe weather.
slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".
That's a severe thunderstorm in neck of the woods.
z31maniac wrote:slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".That's a severe thunderstorm in neck of the woods.
yeah... why does everything need a weird sounding name now?
In reply to novaderrik: BECAUSE RATINGS!!!!!!
I am sitting here laughing at the lightning strikes all around me to the north.......and now thunderstorm warning while I type this. Oh well, everything but the IHC and Fukus are indoors.....I don't care about the fukus, and the ihc could probably survive grapefruit sized hail.
slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".
Yikes. I hope you didn't get much damage from that. 
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
We are getting rain, and rain alone here......a cell popped up in front of the gust front sparing us the wind even......lol
A bad cell clipped the NE corner of our county. We had the tornado sirens and clouds/lightning...but no wind or rain so far.
We got some wind...
I think we missed out here(or I slept through it). One small cell popped up right over town, there was heavy rain for a minute or two, and one particularly loud thunderclap. It looked like the bad stuff missed us by 10-miles or so, but the really bad stuff up around the Aurora & Chicago area looked really bad on radar.
I went to bed at 11 pm. We had nothing here yet at the time. I had heard of a funnel cloud spotted 45 minutes south.
I slept soundly but woke to see standing water in the "usual spot" of the fairway out back. We must have gotten the heavy rain the predicted between 2am and 5 am.
I'm not sure about the rest of the Chicago area, but we didn't get much here. Mostly just rain/thunderstorms.
novaderrik wrote:z31maniac wrote: That's a severe thunderstorm in neck of the woods.yeah... why does everything need a weird sounding name now?
It always had the weird sounding name, people didn't really care because all that is important is "drizzle" or "raining" or "IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!".
Well, people outside the field, anyway.
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