Significant Severe Weather Expected Into Friday
All,
Well as many of you know I get riled up about severe weather. The past 10 days, severe weather has plagued the Midwest and the past two nights tornadoes have gone up and down a front from northern Colorado to Illinois to the mid-Atlantic. That included tornado warnings for Champaign on Tuesday and tornado warnings for LaSalle County on Wednesday. Now, today, that front will shoot northward bringing 90's to Illinois. It will also increase and bring the tornado threat northward to Minnesota. In five years in the NWS this is one of the best setups I have seen for the forecast area I am in. There is a marked potential for long-lived violent tornadoes today from southeast South Dakota and northwest Iowa into southern and central Minnesota including the Twin Cities. Gonna be a long afternoon and night tonight as I will be working that time. I am listening to the "Twister" soundtrack as I compose this getting the juices going.
It's a complicated thing, saying one is "excited" for severe weather. Obviously in 2008 we have seen what tornadoes can do and not a single meteorologist out there, I guarantee you, wants to see houses torn to shreds. Surveying that is the major downside of my job. But meteorologists do prepare for months, sometimes years for major events. You plan with your staff for it, you gear your equipment for it, you learn and better the science in anticipation of it, and you prepare your mind for the battle against it. So in a sense we can't help but get "excited" about the opportunity to protect people from Mother Nature's once unpredictable wrath.
This system will shunt eastward on Friday and bring severe weather chances to Illinois. Maybe a break Saturday, but the heat and thunderstorms quickly return after that. It could be a looooooooooooong summer.
Eye on the sky from the 'Sota to the 'Dota,
MTF
Well as many of you know I get riled up about severe weather. The past 10 days, severe weather has plagued the Midwest and the past two nights tornadoes have gone up and down a front from northern Colorado to Illinois to the mid-Atlantic. That included tornado warnings for Champaign on Tuesday and tornado warnings for LaSalle County on Wednesday. Now, today, that front will shoot northward bringing 90's to Illinois. It will also increase and bring the tornado threat northward to Minnesota. In five years in the NWS this is one of the best setups I have seen for the forecast area I am in. There is a marked potential for long-lived violent tornadoes today from southeast South Dakota and northwest Iowa into southern and central Minnesota including the Twin Cities. Gonna be a long afternoon and night tonight as I will be working that time. I am listening to the "Twister" soundtrack as I compose this getting the juices going.
It's a complicated thing, saying one is "excited" for severe weather. Obviously in 2008 we have seen what tornadoes can do and not a single meteorologist out there, I guarantee you, wants to see houses torn to shreds. Surveying that is the major downside of my job. But meteorologists do prepare for months, sometimes years for major events. You plan with your staff for it, you gear your equipment for it, you learn and better the science in anticipation of it, and you prepare your mind for the battle against it. So in a sense we can't help but get "excited" about the opportunity to protect people from Mother Nature's once unpredictable wrath.
This system will shunt eastward on Friday and bring severe weather chances to Illinois. Maybe a break Saturday, but the heat and thunderstorms quickly return after that. It could be a looooooooooooong summer.
Eye on the sky from the 'Sota to the 'Dota,
MTF
Todd, I'm not sure how I feel about your comment that the Midwest has been "plagued" by severe weather. You have a quote on your page that says there is no such thing as bad weather, only different types of good weather. I think you meant to say that we've been "blessed".
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Scruff - True, "blessed" is what I meant. There was a tornado last night near your old stomping grounds of Pella. They are still doing the damage assessment down there. Most of the action remained in Iowa, although we did have some wind damage and hail. mmmboo mmmyah mmmbooyah
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Will the Severe Weather Warning E-Mails be back for the summer of 08
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Guider, you know it! I think Kim should be on the e-mail list too? Does she desire to be a V.I.P.?!
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I saw the return of the e-mails. Yes Kim has caught the SCF.COM fever and the only cure is VIP status
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Joriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiel
I checked myself...
Scoooooooaroooo
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I'm not quite sure I even know what "shunt" means.
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Shunt - v. To push; to move.
Used in sentences:
Miles, will you shunt the Bacardi Razz down the bar please?
The angry man, known as Miles, shunted OBrien and Mammen aside.
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Correction: The angry man, known as Niles, ATTEMPTED to shunt OBrien and Mammen aside. His tiny arms proved to be too weak, however, causing him to collapse while yelling drunken obscenities.
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I do not care, nor support, being the basis of jokes based on this "verb," which, frankly, I still believe is made up. Also, I am not a fan of Mammen referring to me as Miles, it was much better when he kept asking "Who's Miles?" The more people realize and are aware of the fact Mammen has no business acknowledging me, the better for all involved. But the bottom line is, and the point I'm trying to prove here, is that I cannot tolerate O'Brien further.
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