Awesome today, record breaking 86°!! Cold front whipping through now! I AM READY FOR SUMMER!!
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It's bright here, after tons of rain, and we are under a wind warning with possible power outages. Giving it to get cold over Scotland this week, with snow, so it might drop as far as us.
48 this AM with just a trace of rainfall. Expecting 60s early afternoon and heavy rain. Then this evening a cold front pushes thru and drop temps into the 20s. Rain changing to snow in higher elevations. Winter storm warning for the mountains
The wind is really whipping this morning!!
42° right now, mid 50's today!
Woke up to 3 tornadoes on the ground near me... I'm in no immediate danger.
Oops! a 4th tornado just spun up.
Oops! a 4th tornado just spun up.
@Bacpacker Looks like you're kin in Scooba dodged a bullet. Tornado went to the south of them... Same track as the one a couple weeks ago. Headed to Green county AL
Thanks for the heads up. Didn't know storms were happening
I didn't either!!! Last night the weatherman said this would be a snooze fest. Guess they were wrong. There's been major damage north of me, near Hamilton.
I'm in the clear, storm line has moved past me. No more threat here.
But, 2 tornadoes on the ground south of me. They are following the same track as the tornado in early December.
A lot of damage both north and south of me. Folks are going to need help.
But, 2 tornadoes on the ground south of me. They are following the same track as the tornado in early December.
A lot of damage both north and south of me. Folks are going to need help.
We've got storms rolling thru now, but nothing severe just heavy rain and winds
Selma AL is about to be hit by a huge tornado. <10min
You didn't read my post?
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/weather-in-your-area.3059/post-528352
Yes, we sent that
.Edit: Oh, on topic: we got .26" of rain from the end of the tail of that beast this morning.
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Yeah, Selma got 'em one
...Hearing the reporter's accent was great for me. I miss that.
None of that spinning stuff here. Unusually warm. Ave. between 19 F lows & 39 F highs.
No hats, no coats, no mitts, no heavy boots. Getting the wood piles moved and stacked is coming along nicely.
Bad for the fruit tees though. Big risk of them coming out of dormancy and than freezing to death.
No hats, no coats, no mitts, no heavy boots. Getting the wood piles moved and stacked is coming along nicely.
Bad for the fruit tees though. Big risk of them coming out of dormancy and than freezing to death.
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Much nicer day today than yesterday. It is currently 48 degrees. With the help of another guy, we were able to get a lot more ice chipped up at a dog park. In just a few minutes I'll leave, pick up another dog and go to another dog park, where the ice is also very thick and covers almost every walkway. Hopefully, I'll get some help chipping away some of that ice so that it is a safer place to walk.
Weedygarden,
For what it's worth, I like that you're problem solving and I too hope a few more people catch on to what you are doing.
For what it's worth, I like that you're problem solving and I too hope a few more people catch on to what you are doing.
Weedygarden, you're a good person... not many folks nowadays would offer to help, more's the pity. Meh, think of your work as building good karma points... as an aside, I'm not the kinda guy who lets a dangerous situation remain that way, if anything I will place an obstacle or marker over slippery ice. Too easy for the elderly to get hurt in a fall... 
That Selma twister looked pretty nasty, I don't miss spending nights or even traveling through twister country during my 'trucking daze'---especially in "tornado season" (May-June). What's with the twisters in January? A bit untimely, don'tcha think? I bet a lot of this weird weather we've had in recent years stems from gubmint tards messing with the weather.
In my 'trucking daze' I occasionally visited Bruce's Tornado Truck Stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma... named for a twister that came through and killed at least 10 persons. The twister picked up trucks and tossed 'em around like jackstraws, I even have some pics of the framed displays in the main building which showed the damage. Lemme find 'em...
Okay, the original pics were none too good (taken with a cheesy disposable camera, most likely), and the Canon cam didn't really clarify things, but if you look closely enough, you can see the damage after the trucks were tossed around. I'm not sure if all 10 persons were killed at the truck stop when the twister hit, but I know a number of them were.
The following pics show the damage to the truck stop more clearly...
I took these pics in '96, I was with my trainer when I first rolled into what had then already been renamed as Bruce's Tornado Truck Stop.... it would've been the latter half of '96, since I started with USX in July. I believe the truck stop damage occurred a few years earlier, maybe sharp-eyed site members can spot a date on the papers.
Edit: A quick web check supplied the date of the twister---April 24, 1993. The truck stop was (and might still be) right off I-44 in Tulsa.
That Selma twister looked pretty nasty, I don't miss spending nights or even traveling through twister country during my 'trucking daze'---especially in "tornado season" (May-June). What's with the twisters in January? A bit untimely, don'tcha think? I bet a lot of this weird weather we've had in recent years stems from gubmint tards messing with the weather.
In my 'trucking daze' I occasionally visited Bruce's Tornado Truck Stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma... named for a twister that came through and killed at least 10 persons. The twister picked up trucks and tossed 'em around like jackstraws, I even have some pics of the framed displays in the main building which showed the damage. Lemme find 'em...
Okay, the original pics were none too good (taken with a cheesy disposable camera, most likely), and the Canon cam didn't really clarify things, but if you look closely enough, you can see the damage after the trucks were tossed around. I'm not sure if all 10 persons were killed at the truck stop when the twister hit, but I know a number of them were.
The following pics show the damage to the truck stop more clearly...
I took these pics in '96, I was with my trainer when I first rolled into what had then already been renamed as Bruce's Tornado Truck Stop.... it would've been the latter half of '96, since I started with USX in July. I believe the truck stop damage occurred a few years earlier, maybe sharp-eyed site members can spot a date on the papers.
Edit: A quick web check supplied the date of the twister---April 24, 1993. The truck stop was (and might still be) right off I-44 in Tulsa.
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Windy with gusts up to 38 m.p.h. today, 30% chance of rain... with rain in the forecast from now until Tuesday night.
We got about 3" of rain yesterday. I guess the 8th consecutive rain event will be headed our way, and drop another inch of rain before we get clearing skies for the next week. The rain we have received is a blessing. My city is now up 28" this season, and is great in filling our aquifers and lots of snow in the mountains. Maybe the drought will be over for a few years?
Sunny 40s and a little breeze. Good day to be out workin
Warm and very windy. 70° with a wind advisory!
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It's absolutely bucketing down like mad.
It's still the coldest wet season we've had but the amount of rain we're having is like a traditional wet season.
Roads and bridges are washed out and under over 10 foot of water.
All the mending jobs the shire councils did on the roads and bridges after the last lot of flooding has now been destroyed and has to be redone.
No supply trucks for the grocery chains can get through and stock at the grocery stores is limited from what I can see on their on-line shopping sites.
You learn not to trust the "in stock" label on their on-line stores and it's a hope and pray situation when putting anything in your on-line cart because you've got a better than average chance of sending you a e-mail (after excepting your money) with a whole laundry list of grocery items that somehow, magically became out of stock.
The grass was jumping out of the ground with all the rain and I'm glad the mower guy came in yesterday and cut it.
We've got more bad weather slated for the next two weeks.
It's still the coldest wet season we've had but the amount of rain we're having is like a traditional wet season.
Roads and bridges are washed out and under over 10 foot of water.
All the mending jobs the shire councils did on the roads and bridges after the last lot of flooding has now been destroyed and has to be redone.
No supply trucks for the grocery chains can get through and stock at the grocery stores is limited from what I can see on their on-line shopping sites.
You learn not to trust the "in stock" label on their on-line stores and it's a hope and pray situation when putting anything in your on-line cart because you've got a better than average chance of sending you a e-mail (after excepting your money) with a whole laundry list of grocery items that somehow, magically became out of stock.
The grass was jumping out of the ground with all the rain and I'm glad the mower guy came in yesterday and cut it.
We've got more bad weather slated for the next two weeks.
Weather? What weather? I can't see any weather through the fog.
Actually the sunrise was beautiful this morning: sun rising over the snow-capped mountains. Then the fog rolled in like a drunkard to a jail cell!
Actually the sunrise was beautiful this morning: sun rising over the snow-capped mountains. Then the fog rolled in like a drunkard to a jail cell!
Continued WARM'ISH winter.
We had .72" this am. Another .08 later this morning. 41 this am, 61 on my way home.
77° today, beautiful!!
1.55" of rain in 1-1/2 hr. Fortunately, very little CTG lightening 
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Fortunately, very little CTG lightening .
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