Posted on 06/30/2005 9:30:46 PM PDT by raygun
On this day in:
1997: 4" of rain fell within 90 minutes on a 4-square mile area near Pitcairn, PA. Water from the flash flooding over flowed the Dirty Run. The elemetary school's lower-legel windows were inundated, and 13 buildings were swept away. $10 million in damage was assessed.
Isn't it interesting how the earths's surface "slows" winds down? On this day a wake low produced measurements of 77mph (33' height) at Moonhead, MN and 81 mph @ 91' and 131 mph at 131'.
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Ben!
Well the Akron/Canton (OH) airport weather data put this as the 3rd driest June since records have been kept (late 1800s)...my lawn certainly can tell you that. The last week there were thunderstorms all over the state but they always seemed to veer north or south of us...Columbus got deluged last night and we didn't get so much as a sneeze.
On a weather note here in Kansas City, the forecast for Thursday was for a few sprinkles if any amount of rain fell.
The Downtown KC airport recorded just over 2" of rain from about 6am to 6pm and the Kansas City Internatioanl airport had over 3" of rain which was a new 24 hour record.
Ahhh, life in the Midwest
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Whoops, forgot one:
Also in 1997:
4" of rain fell within 90 minutes on a 4-square mile area near Pitcairn, PA and water from the flash flooding over flowed the Dirty Camp Run inundating the elemetary school there through its lower-level windows, and sweeping 13 buildings of their foundations. $10 million in damage was assessed.
The region around Pittsburgh is deep and long valleys. Many of the valleys are stopped at one end by dams. Usually the reservoir behind the dam is near empty, but a good rain day could fill the valley to the top of the dam overnight. The flooding before the dams were installed must have been heroic. Even with the dams, Pittsburgh gets wet now and then.
On today's date in 2005: Weather bureau hit by lightning -- twice (Des Moines, Iowa)
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=93014&cat=World
I wonder if that's a record number of times a weather bureau was struck by lightning.
My question is whether the impact will be visible to the naked eye and whether the brightness would be mostly due to reflected sunlight or to the ionization caused by the release of kinetic energy. The projectile is about 800 pounds and it will be == > m o v i n g == > relative to the comet.
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