It’s not too bad. Keep in mind you certainly aren’t ever going to pick it up. It has reverse though, and multiple speeds, the deluxe also has a wheel lock so you can more easily turn it.
Zylon
1682
It’s snowing. It’s May, and IT IS SNOWING.
What the hell, man? It was short-sleeve, windows-open weather just a couple of days ago.
Ha, I like that the Weather Channel is still calling it a “winter storm.” Will we get Spring thunderstorms in September?
I could sure go for a blizzard right now. We tied our April record high of 99 the other day, and are sitting at just over a half inch of rain for the year. These drier than normal springs have been doing a number on my allergies the last couple of years.
Hey, I was there for that half inch of rain! I feel relevant.
Clay
1686
I’ve taken a real liking to the minimalist weather site http://www.forecast.io
It’s a great replacement for the ad laden and hype laden Weather.com. It works great on a mobile device, too, if you install the bookmark as an app icon.
I think the guy who made it also made an app called Dark Sky for iOS that gives you a very accurate forecast for the next hour. I haven’t tried that, though, because it’s not free.
Kinda depressed about the weather because I can’t go chasing. Yesterday spawned some very photogenic supercells:
— Alan
Wow, that’s a really nice site, thanks for that. :)
You can’t spin the globe or move the map. :(
Daagar
1690
Not sure this was mentioned back when it happened or not: Had a nice 5min hail storm a few weeks back. Almost every roof requires major repair up to full replacement. I think the only houses without roofer signs in front are those that either lack decent enough insurance, or are waiting until later in the summer to prevent a repeat claim since it could happen again this season. It wasn’t even super-sized hail, just crazy intense.
RichVR
1691
Last week we had a few sun-showers that lasted for a decent amount of time. In Brooklyn that’s a really rare thing but may be common here.
It’s fairly common in the tropics. Pineapple rain. Or, in Japan, a Fox’s wedding.
I’d say I notice it happen once a month during the rainy season. I’m sure it happens more than that I just don’t get outside all that often.
In August it is THE WORST. You get all the humidity spike with none of the cooling.
The second of three anticipated severe weather days in the central/southern plains today. Many reported tornados already today. Live stream from OKC:
— Alan
In fact there’s a pretty violent long-lasting wedge tornado on there right now.
— Alan
RichVR
1696
The wife and I drove to Cocoa Beach today. On the way we were hit with rain and straight line winds that I thought would end with hail and possibly funnel clouds. Visibility was zero for a while. Traffic was at a stop. Which always scares me because, what’s coming up behind you? Instead we got to the beach and they were racing boats on chop that I would consider dangerous. Yay Florida.
The severe weather meteorologists didn’t have to look very far to issue their next Tornado Warning; they just issued one for Norman, Oklahoma, which is right where the Storm Prediction Center is located. Big ol’ rotating supercell is bearing down on top of them.
— Alan
Moderate risk of severe weather due again today, this time stretching from North Texas up through Oklahoma then turning east to Missouri and Arkansas. Similar storms to yesterday may be common. Tomorrow nearly this same area, just shifted east a bit more, is also under Moderate risk. That makes four days in a row of Moderate risk areas roughly right in the same region. Kind of a chaser’s dream, actually.
Some unintentional hilarity yesterday on KFOR; while the TV coverage had issues keeping up with the cell that passed north of OKC, a new cell developed and quickly intensified south of OKC and passed over Norman before hitting Shawnee (this was the one I was mentioning above). They had a female reporter in a car sitting on I-35 waiting for it to pass, and then traveled east to follow it with a live camera. Often the weather guy was saying how the storm tightened up, there’s definitely a tornado on the ground now, and there’s this big debris ball and everything on radar, and this poor woman in this car is rapidly trying to keep up with it on the roads. Except she can’t see it, because the view to the north is continually blocked by buildings and trees. I swear this was happening for nearly half an hour–they keep going back to her, and she keeps missing it or can’t see it or just got a brief glimpse but you never actually saw anything.
It must have been 30 minutes and the weather guy is talking about something and all you hear over the air is this woman shouting, “MIKE! MIKE! MIKE! MIKE!” over and over again. FINALLY she managed to get to the end of a cul-de-sac looks like and got a clear view of the tornado as it was a few minutes from Shawnee still and she is just going nuts. Despite everything, it was pretty amusing (and the side chat was just going crazy with laughter.)
— Alan
I moved to Tulsa 3 years ago, during the winter. That spring I experienced for the first time the wholly unique feeling one gets when the weatherman draws a line from a rotating supercell directly to your apartment.
The same thing occurred yesterday. Maybe I shouldn’t have renewed the lease.
It might be happening again for you today.
It’s already kicking off in central Oklahoma… tornadoes on the ground near OKC.
— Alan
Edit: in fact there is a massive tornado headed straight for Moore, OK, in a virtual repeat of the May 3, 1999 outbreak. Tornado Emergency declared.
