May 14, 20232 yr Oh my "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 23, 20232 yr always take care because the cowboys will try to come for your water great lakes compacters!
June 1, 20232 yr this is an awesome leap ahead in weather forecasting! New airborne radar could revolutionize hurricane forecasting Andrew Freedman Next-generation radar technology capable of taking 3D slices of hurricanes and other storms is poised to move ahead, after years of fits and starts. Driving the news: The National Science Foundation announced $91.8 million in funding this morning — the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season — for the National Center for Atmospheric Research to design, build and test an airborne phased array radar. The technology consists of thousands of transmitters and receivers on horizontal plates mounted at different points on a plane. Together, they would scan storms in unprecedented detail, from storms' overall organization to the type, shape and direction of movement of droplets within the clouds. more: https://www.axios.com/2023/06/01/hurricane-forecasting-radar-funding Closeup of Hurricane Ian's eye seen from space as the storm struck Sanibel Island, Fla., on Sept. 18, 2022. Image: NASA
June 10, 20232 yr the apocalyptic canadian fires sky over nyc — seen as a wes anderson movie — 😂🔥 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtNLrAMP-mP/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
June 23, 20231 yr wow — a scary storm popped up on a cruise ship at port canaveral, fla — https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct0dkz_supG/?igshid=MTI1ZDU5ODQ3Yw==
July 12, 20231 yr I hope all the people I know who moved to Arizona are enjoying the heat. https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2023/07/12-straight-days-over-110-and-counting-extreme-heat-in-phoenix-southwest-us-dangerous-unrelenting-spreading.html
July 14, 20231 yr On 7/12/2023 at 7:32 PM, TBideon said: Beats extreme colds, but still abysmal weather. Typically NE Ohio only get a few days of extreme cold during the winter. I can handle that. I'm not sure I could handle baking in an oven for several months in Arizona.
July 24, 20231 yr Just wrapping up reading Fire Weather by John Vaillant. Excellent read about a major fire in Ft. McMurray Canada and how climate change is affecting us all more generally.
August 15, 20231 yr Cincinnati has had a perfect summer. 7 inches of rain in July and almost zero days over 90F.
August 17, 20231 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 18, 20231 yr It's such a shame that most of that much-needed water will end up back in the Pacific. California really needs to up it's reservoir game.
August 18, 20231 yr 9 hours ago, Cleburger said: It's such a shame that most of that much-needed water will end up back in the Pacific. California really needs to up it's reservoir game. The hilly streets in my SD hood turn into raging rivers that literally rush down the pavement straight into the ocean. This is just another reason it's a really bad idea to build right up to the waters edge. Same thing happens in the Flats too. All that urban runoff going straight into the Cuyahoga.
August 18, 20231 yr I took a wrong turn yesterday and spent 30 minutes driving farm roads near Xenia and Yellow Springs. The corn and other crops are absolutely perfect this year. The national media is never, ever going to report on a perfect growing season in Ohio.
August 18, 20231 yr On 8/15/2023 at 1:07 AM, Lazarus said: Cincinnati has had a perfect summer. 7 inches of rain in July and almost zero days over 90F. Cleveland is similar. I think 1 day at 90 all year, and perfect amount of rain to keep things green!
August 19, 20231 yr 10 hours ago, TheCOV said: I've lived 40+ years of my life in Ohio. Our weather has never been better. The air was hazy all summer long when I was a kid. At some point toward the late 90s, the summer smog disappeared thanks to the Clean Air Act.
August 21, 20231 yr On 8/19/2023 at 12:53 AM, Lazarus said: The air was hazy all summer long when I was a kid. At some point toward the late 90s, the summer smog disappeared thanks to the Clean Air Act. Been pointing this out to the twenty-somethings I work with this year. I have had a bit of nostalgia driving around the city and seeing hazy vistas of the skyline like I remember from way back when. Edited August 21, 20231 yr by Rabbit Hash
August 21, 20231 yr 38 minutes ago, Rabbit Hash said: Been pointing this out to the twenty-somethings I work with this year. I have had a bit of nostalgia driving around the city and seeing hazy vistas of the skyline like I remember from way back when. I remember a lot of national reporting on LA's smog, but for whatever reason I only thought it was there. I thought that the summer haze in Ohio was natural.
August 25, 20231 yr I’m sure we weren’t the only people woken up at midnight last night with the emergency tornado warning. It was wild downtown for a good 10-15 minutes. I see there was a confirmed EF-1 touched down between E71st and E89th and ran between Chester and Euclid. As it happens, we’d already planned to take the HeathLine today to go out to UC and visit the CMA (Royal Udaipur, Medieval liturgical textiles and Kyoto ceramics all well worth seeing BTW). Lots of BIG trees uprooted along the way. That Baptist church got badly damaged and has been well covered in the news. What I was surprised to see and hasn’t been mentioned anywhere, is that Dunham Tavern got badly damaged too, with its front porch seemingly ripped off. My hovercraft is full of eels
August 25, 20231 yr On 8/18/2023 at 2:40 PM, TheCOV said: I've lived 40+ years of my life in Ohio. Our weather has never been better. Same for columbus. I don’t like to run when it’s above 90 and haven’t missed any runs this summer:)
August 25, 20231 yr 22 minutes ago, roman totale XVII said: I’m sure we weren’t the only people woken up at midnight last night with the emergency tornado warning. It was wild downtown for a good 10-15 minutes. I see there was a confirmed EF-1 touched down between E71st and E89th and ran between Chester and Euclid. As it happens, we’d already planned to take the HeathLine today to go out to UC and visit the CMA (Royal Udaipur, Medieval liturgical textiles and Kyoto ceramics all well worth seeing BTW). Lots of BIG trees uprooted along the way. That Baptist church got badly damaged and has been well covered in the news. What I was surprised to see and hasn’t been mentioned anywhere, is that Dunham Tavern got badly damaged too, with its front porch seemingly ripped off. Brazil Street is often my shortcut between Lakeshore and Neff heading towards 90. It wasn't this morning approx 5:30am it was blocked with a really big tree.
September 10, 20231 yr aliens?! 👽 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctn9bPMIbPz/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
October 29, 20231 yr Incredible devastation. The worst part is that Otis intensified faster than any hurricane in recorded history, from a 65 mph tropical storm to a 145-mph monster hurricane in just 12 hours. No one had any warning how strong it would be. Acapulco took a direct hit... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 30, 20231 yr Bye bye growing season. I appreciated the tomatoes, squash, and pears. picked the last tomatoes today. See ya next year.
November 2, 20231 yr chicago winter — https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyDBAknuwJU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
November 8, 20231 yr wild tornado comp — 🙀 https://www.instagram.com/p/CzOfnwvNdtf/?igshid=eWN6YzkzMjhlcDI5
November 17, 20231 yr Major storm brewing on the Great Lakes for Thanksgiving! Check updates as the forecast is refined. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 28, 20231 yr Incredible videos from Ukraine and ruzzia "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 5, 20241 yr Temperatures across Northern Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania for Winter 2023-2024 were considerably above normal while precipitation was a little below normal and snowfall well below normal. A couple of record-high temps from yesterday... Toledo, OH reached 78F, breaking the previous record of 76F in 1983 Erie, PA reached 76F, breaking the previous record of 70F in 1966. More details here - https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=RER&issuedby=CLE "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 5, 20241 yr High of 75 today folks in Beachwood, 75! Taking the folks for a long drive. Geauga County here we come before tomorrow's 30 degree drop.
March 5, 20241 yr And another year with no ice on the lake. We're sure to get a few more lake effect dumpings!
March 6, 20241 yr On 3/5/2024 at 9:54 AM, Cleburger said: And another year with no ice on the lake. We're sure to get a few more lake effect dumpings! You sure? We've had one solid week of winter this season and a couple of days where the newly fallen snow melted before the end of the day. This is the kind of winter Tennessee had when I was a kid in the 70s. Earth had warmest February on record as this year trends hotter than 2023 https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/weather-heat-climate-change "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 6, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, KJP said: You sure? We've had one solid week of winter this season and a couple of days where the newly fallen snow melted before the end of the day. This is the kind of winter Tennessee had when I was a kid in the 70s. I'm positive. March came in like a lamb.... We'll get one more cold blast across the lake around easter that will remind us what winter is like.
March 7, 20241 yr The old fairytales of a Cleveland winter don't apply as rules of thumb anymore. Everything is being rewritten. The only thing that's guaranteed is a trend toward less cold and snow. When I reach my 80s (I'm 56 now), Cleveland kids are going to ask me what was winter like in the 1970s and 80s and they're not going to believe me. 60s tomorrow. Looks like several inches of snow on Sunday. Will be melted on Monday. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 30, 20241 yr "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 6, 20241 yr Did Columbus overreact or act wisely with proactive precautions for forecasted storms? With two tornado outbreaks in Ohio earlier this year still fresh on the mind, including one that killed three in Logan County, some in the Columbus area battened down the hatches Tuesday when severe storms with possible tornadoes were forecast. Some schools closed early or canceled after-school activities, Columbus Metropolitan library branches and the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium closed early, the city put up flood walls in Franklinton and the Columbus Clippers canceled their scheduled home opener against, ironically, the Omaha Storm Chasers... ... So were the precautions central Ohioans took an overreaction or prudent? Some local social media users on Reddit and X, formerly known as Twitter, made jokes Wednesday about weather forecasters being incorrect and Tuesday's storms being largely anticlimactic. https://www.dispatch.com/story/weather/2024/04/03/columbus-weather-forecast-storms-flooding-ohio-tornado-watch/73192214007/ Columbus media coverage of the weather is considered alarmist by many, especially among the sizable portion of the local population who did not grow up here and grew up with less heavy-handed weather coverage and more extreme weather. Also, younger people tend to get their weather information from apps that coldly frame things in terms of hourly percentage chances and when the rain is going to start or stop in their exact location rather than the TV which goes on about possible rotation seven counties away from the individual's location. 15 years ago, the rabbit ears got a big boost from the digital TV switch which added a lot of channels to people's TVs and cord-cutting (enabled at the time as much by the additional rabbit ears channels as early streaming). Also, in a lot of cases the rabbit ears had a better picture than cable TV and streaming. Once COVID, which glued seniors and the elderly to their TVs for hours and hours a day, started winding down the rabbit ears were left with only the elderly. The good news for the rabbit ears is that means lots of pill commercials! TV weather coverage is riveting to the elderly. If that's your market you give them as much weather as you can. And if you haven't tuned into the rabbit ears during the day lately prepare to see how hard they make these local TV newspeople work. The only time they really get off is during the 10-11 hour, 1-2, and 3-4. And that means the weather 30-40 times a day. Remember when you could only get it like 5 times a day? And that means even more pill commercials. On the weekends at least the rabbit ears have live sports. But during the rest of the weekend it's infomercials and cheap animal shows. Edited April 6, 20241 yr by GCrites
April 8, 20241 yr the nyc earthquake x neighborhood - 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Y7aqVubnF/?igsh=OGZrZG04YmZ6cmY1
April 9, 20241 yr Can we all stop and appreciate the miraculous turnaround of the weather for the eclipse? As recently as Friday it was saying rain with maybe some partial clearing. Today was about as good as it gets!
April 11, 20241 yr On 4/6/2024 at 11:57 AM, GCrites said: Did Columbus overreact or act wisely with proactive precautions for forecasted storms? With two tornado outbreaks in Ohio earlier this year still fresh on the mind, including one that killed three in Logan County, some in the Columbus area battened down the hatches Tuesday when severe storms with possible tornadoes were forecast. Some schools closed early or canceled after-school activities, Columbus Metropolitan library branches and the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium closed early, the city put up flood walls in Franklinton and the Columbus Clippers canceled their scheduled home opener against, ironically, the Omaha Storm Chasers... ... So were the precautions central Ohioans took an overreaction or prudent? Some local social media users on Reddit and X, formerly known as Twitter, made jokes Wednesday about weather forecasters being incorrect and Tuesday's storms being largely anticlimactic. https://www.dispatch.com/story/weather/2024/04/03/columbus-weather-forecast-storms-flooding-ohio-tornado-watch/73192214007/ Columbus media coverage of the weather is considered alarmist by many, especially among the sizable portion of the local population who did not grow up here and grew up with less heavy-handed weather coverage and more extreme weather. Also, younger people tend to get their weather information from apps that coldly frame things in terms of hourly percentage chances and when the rain is going to start or stop in their exact location rather than the TV which goes on about possible rotation seven counties away from the individual's location. 15 years ago, the rabbit ears got a big boost from the digital TV switch which added a lot of channels to people's TVs and cord-cutting (enabled at the time as much by the additional rabbit ears channels as early streaming). Also, in a lot of cases the rabbit ears had a better picture than cable TV and streaming. Once COVID, which glued seniors and the elderly to their TVs for hours and hours a day, started winding down the rabbit ears were left with only the elderly. The good news for the rabbit ears is that means lots of pill commercials! TV weather coverage is riveting to the elderly. If that's your market you give them as much weather as you can. And if you haven't tuned into the rabbit ears during the day lately prepare to see how hard they make these local TV newspeople work. The only time they really get off is during the 10-11 hour, 1-2, and 3-4. And that means the weather 30-40 times a day. Remember when you could only get it like 5 times a day? And that means even more pill commercials. On the weekends at least the rabbit ears have live sports. But during the rest of the weekend it's infomercials and cheap animal shows. It may be alarmist but just a few weeks ago a awoke to my phone going off and the sirens blaring after 4am. A tornado destroyed most of Madison County airport and lifted just 2 miles short of my home. Ohio is either first or second in the number of tornadoes so far this season-right up there with Florida. This is an active severe weather season and people have already been killed in Ohio. So I really think for right now, better safe than sorry. *if the tornado did not lift, it could have gotten me-by the time the sirens and phone went off with the NWS alert, it was delayed and the storm that had the tornado was right over me. Such is life.
April 11, 20241 yr The development of night tornadoes that used to be limited to the South certainly is concerning.
May 11, 20241 yr Is the aurora weather? Anyway, just got back from the lakefront at Voinovich. Very cool and a decent crowd on hand that was growing by the minute. My hovercraft is full of eels
May 11, 20241 yr I stepped outside around 10:10 not really expecting to see much, or maybe a faint glow at most. The sky was very pink in every direction, even with all the lights in town, no need for the help of a camera. That seemed to be about the peak intensity, but it definitely continued for at least 45 minutes. Tried to wake the kid (who loves all things natural sciences), but he was completely out. Looks like there is a good chance for a repeat even tonight, and clouds are supposed be clearing.
May 11, 20241 yr I couldn't figure out when the peak was supposed to be. I had heard 2 AM, then 12:30, then just before leaving to go to Geneva State Park (I had heard it was essential to get away from city lights to see it) that the peak had already past earlier in the day. I couldn't see anything as I traveled through the city. And the peak apparently was past when we got to the beach at midnight, as we didn't see any of these pink/purple colors, just a green haze. It was still pretty amazing.
May 12, 20241 yr drone view of the auroras over the lake — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61XYDlA9rI/?igsh=MWZtb3IzMXMzeXp1eA==
May 23, 20241 yr The Atlantic Ocean has a lot to say right now. And none of it is particularly good. My take on the deep Atlantic heat – which blows May 2005 out of the water – how it could impact hurricane season, and how it's affecting us today via @CC_Yale https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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