Posted on 06/27/2005 3:23:03 PM PDT by raygun
On this day in:
1993: Hail fell to several inches deep in IN's NE Parke Country; drifts to several feet deep. A county highway department 4-wheel-drive truck had to be pulled out of a hail drift by another 4-wheel-drive. Dense forg formed over the hail-covered areas.
1997: Hail up to 2.75" broke windows/damaged rooofs in most of the 190 homes of Michigan, ND. Many dents in vehicles. The town's 2 implement dealers also suffered significant damage to their inventories. Total damage: $10 million.
Thunderstorms can be lethal even without floods, lightning or tornadoes or massive downbursts. In August 1994, 143 people died in Brazzavile, Congo. A large crowd attending a church service panicked at the onset of a cloudburst. The victims were trampled to death by the churchgoers stampede for shelter. Always have a towel handy. And above all, Don't panic.
ping
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Hail drifts ... Geez!
It is supposed to be 85 today. It might be although it has taken all day to get there. There is smoke, so much that it is hard to see if there are clouds above.
Smoke is a lithometeor.
PAFA 280053Z 00000KT 7SM FEW120 OVC200 23/06 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP110 FU ALQDS T02330061
Observation at 1653 UTC (ATD +8) from Fairbanks automated station with precipitation descriminator, winds calm, smoke all quadrants, 7 statute mile visibility, few clouds at FL120 and overcast at FL200. T02330061 is the hourly temperatures group (23.3 Deg. C. temp, dew point 6.1 Deg. C.) which are also noted in the message text body. That works out to THI 67 @ 74 Deg. F.
In contrast I had THI 83.2 @ 93 Deg. F. this afternoon at 4 P.M.
They have been promising 85 for a couple days. We got 73 because of the smoke. Probably no clouds now, but it's hard to tell with the entire sky still smoked over.
As of 30 minutes ago, still overcast at 20,000 (and still smoke all quadrants). What's up with the smoke? Did Crankshaft fire up the BBQ again?
Hurricane Audry killed 390 people but that is not the record. The 1900 Galveston storm killed 6000 and possibly as many as 10,000 people.
Huh. Planned burns or what?
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Not likely. Going to employ many able-bodied smokejumpers, especially if villages are threatened.
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