Weather WTF

[Caliga]

I can't get out of this hellhole soon enough.

"Little if any frozen precip" in Brownsville, Texas?  Wow, that's surprising. 

Map sucks.

[Razgovory]

Decided to resurrect this old thread.  Looks like hell over around Cal and Ed's area.  Heard they let schools out in the Louisville area.  That struck me as strange, but whatever.

[Admiral Yi]

Can't ever recall seeing snowfall after the first tornadoes of the season.  We just got an inch or two.

2012.

[Razgovory]

We've had really weird weather.  Winter just skipped us.  It's been light jacket weather most of last month.  A lot of days you could outside in just a pair of jeans and a short sleeve shirt.  Leaves didn't even fall off the trees till like November.  It's been really weird.  Still, can't complain.  I'd rather have a mild winter then the dig out three feet of snow.

[Eddie Teach]

2012.

Guess it's time to move to Africa. 

[Ed Anger]

It is supposed to snow this weekend.

[Ed Anger]

Decided to resurrect this old thread.  Looks like hell over around Cal and Ed's area.  Heard they let schools out in the Louisville area.  That struck me as strange, but whatever.

They are likely basing decisions on this:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/daily-torcon-forecast_2011-07-11

[Razgovory]

Never got out of school for a Tornado.  We'd just shove our heads between our legs and practice kissing our asses goodbye.

[Ed Anger]

Everybody into the halls! Against the lockers!

[Caliga]

We're ok.  Got hail the size of gumballs.  I have a friend who lives in Henryville, IN (been to his house and was just up in Salem, IN last weekend)... he's not ok.  He just posted on Facebook that he was injured by hail and his house got a moderate amount of damage.  Henryville got its ass totally kicked... the high school was flattened and a bunch of gas stations along I-65 have ceased to exist.

Supposedly a tornado hit Ft. Knox but I haven't heard as much about that one since a bunch of people were killed up in Henryville and other places in Scott County.

[Caliga]

Just heard that in some parts of my county the hail was so large that it punched holes in buildings.  Better go out and take a look at my roof.

[Admiral Yi]

What does it feel like to get clonked with hail?  Like getting pegged with a rock?

[MadBurgerMaker]

What does it feel like to get clonked with hail?  Like getting pegged with a rock?

Cold rocks.  Until it gets to a certain size, I guess, where you don't really feel it when it crushes your skull.

[Caliga]

Roof is fine.

I've never gotten hit by hail that I can recall.  I've driven through it (as recently as this morning on my way into work ) but never actually been impacted by myself.  I guess I could ask my friend Kevin, but might wait a little bit to pose the question to him.

Also, another neat thing with tornadic fronts: usually it's pretty warm as they approach, and it always gets progressively warmer till they impact and then the temperature drops rapidly.  Before this one hit, it was actually hot outside, and I've also experienced that in late January once when we got hit by one.  I was lucky (or foolish?) enough to be outside when this one hit and you can really feel the temperature drop... there's also always this very low rumble that's just barely perceptible, almost like a distant train or something.  I always wonder if that's just approaching thunder or some sound that tornadoes make that can travel long distances or something.

[Caliga]

Also, even though this hail was very large--biggest I've ever personally seen--it all melted within like a minute of falling.