Tell me the "weather" where you live.

[jbrostek]

Took advantage of the 60F day to wash all the salt and caked on sand from this winters road treatments. It might have also been blowing 25-35mph, just meant sometimes I mist the target. At least all the cars look their correct colors again.

Tonight gets down to 20F, then we stay in a colder pattern till end of next week. Finally, gets back to the mid 50 high mid 40 lows which is good since I dewinterize in a few weeks for the first race weekend. With any luck I wont need to run heat after that... but I can test out my new wifi thermostate I scorect directly from Coleman/Axcell for half the price of a Micro-Air

 

[bama_ed]

As a sure sign that spring has officially arrived, we are about to have our first weekend here in Alabama of a serious weather event that could bring tornadoes. The first window is Friday night into Saturday morning. The second window (more severe than the first) is Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. It was 80F here this afternoon so it's getting seriously warm which is dangerous when the cold air comes in behind it. The rest of us around the south are in the same boat but at slightly different times.

Bama Ed

 

[Teamubr]

Stay safe, Ed.

It looks like the Friday wave has a bullseye on StL, but we are in Puerto Rico right now. I guess I can watch it on the house cams.

j

 

[tiggerdad]

As a sure sign that spring has officially arrived, we are about to have our first weekend here in Alabama of a serious weather event that could bring tornadoes. The first window is Friday night into Saturday morning. The second window (more severe than the first) is Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. It was 80F here this afternoon so it's getting seriously warm which is dangerous when the cold air comes in behind it. The rest of us around the south are in the same boat but at slightly different times.

Bama Ed

It'll be tracking out of my backyard into yours Ed so if any of my belongings land in your neighborhood be a pal and hold onto them for me.

We were supposed to be traveling down to Gulfport, MS saturday for youngest DDs color guard competition but they got smart and cancelled that this morning so we'll be home which is fine by me.

They sayn it gonna be a dandy!

 

[2goofycampers]

Same here. I hope it's not near as bad as they say for all of us.

 

[team bradfield]

Stay safe you guys

 

[tiggerdad]

We have decided as family we watching Twister tonight for movie night

 

[bama_ed]

@tiggerdad,

Tonight and tomorrow I'm watching the weather fr*ckin' radar because whatever comes to my home area will be in YOUR home area about 60 minutes sooner.

I will say Universal Studios had a great Twister ride when I saw it about 10 years ago (kid's high school band marched at US). But I wouldn't want to watch it tonight. Becuz I'm a big scaredy cat!

ED

PS - seriously, tomorrow night sounds like no fun.

 

[bama_ed]

High was 89F today.

Low tonight is 66F forecasted.

Not normal. These kind of conditions haven't happened in 3 years.

Darn it. Don't like this. ED

 

[2goofycampers]

So far so good. We can hear the rumbling and see the lightning just now.

 

[Teamubr]

Ian is home and said everything is fine there. Never lost power. I checked the cameras during the height of it and didn't see much. Lots of damage in the general area though. News said 6 confirmed tornados across the area.

j

 

[friendofeeyore]

Praying the storms will go away from your areas. Mother Nature needs to take a pill & calm down.

 

[tiggerdad]

Had wind constant all morning then it seemed to die off about an hour ago. I mean dead still.

Line of storms coming through northern MS now, about another hour or two until we see it.

 

[bama_ed]

Well the State of Mississippi sent us some BAD weather this afternoon but it was travelling northeast faster than it was 'sliding' to the east so central Alabama avoided the worst of the weather (a few tornadoes in the northern, less populated part of Tuscaloosa County). In other words, the bad stuff passed 'over my head' (to the north of us). The intense part was about 1pm to 5pm but by 5pm temps had cooled as the sun started going down from mid-70s to 70 by 5pm which takes some of the energy out of the storms.

The weather front will push some rain/red storm lines over us tonight but by 8pm/9pm it will become east Alabama & Georgia's problem.

Big sigh of relief.

Ed

 

[tiggerdad]

In total, we had 5 separate tornado warnings here in Lauderdale county. The only storm damage i am aware of locally was a restaurant about 3 miles away got struck by lightening and caught on fire.

Oh, and in the middle of all this Magee, MS had a 3.0 magnitude earthquake as well

What was weird, we were sitting out on the patio and things were literally falling out of the sky. some landed in the backyard. turned out it was roofing felt, apparently had been torn off somewhere south and west of us and carried on the winds.

 

[2goofycampers]

A tornado went by to the north. We did get a straight-line wind from it. Blew over our wood pile and bent the neighbor's flagpole. When the sun comes up will check for any other damage. I'm glad it seems everyone got by with little to no damage.

 

[Teamubr]

Weather is good here. 82 and sunny. I'm just not sure where "here" is.



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