^^ I guess lightning just seemed a lot less significant to me than a tornado touching down and killing a few people.

I used to live right outside of Springfield, so I've been watching all my friends/neighbors posting trees on houses and whatnot. Anything else going on in the state seems kind of insignificant, but I guess if you live in Boston atm it might be a different story.

6/1/2011 10:10:12 PM

^ sorry to hear that, hopefully all your friends and family are okay. We haven't had anything other than a good thunderstorm.

6/1/2011 10:14:08 PM

6/2/2011 12:34:27 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NchH55X9Dc8

6/2/2011 8:39:11 PM

This is beyond ridiculous

6/2/2011 8:41:49 PM

Had 10-15 minutes of 3/4 golf ball sized hail here in Gastonia

6/2/2011 8:46:08 PM

^^^

I'm guessing that's a webcam someone is remotely controlling?

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM. Reason : w]

6/2/2011 8:46:54 PM

hopefully... i know I wouldn't want to be up there filming that

6/2/2011 8:51:37 PM

That tornado crossed the Connecticut less than a mile before the basketball hall of fame. I had friends ready to loot if it went a tad further south .

While overall the tornado might not have been strong as the storms down here, a lot of the buildings in western mass are a LOT older, thus a lot more susceptible to a tornado. We had several in my town that were 200+ years old. Almost every building along our main road through town (Main Street...) was at least 100.

Also, I hate to see the property damage for obvious reasons, but honestly, maybe this will be the spark that is needed to not make Springfield a completely shitty city. Hopefully they'll rebuild, and rebuild it without all the...shittyness.

6/2/2011 8:56:13 PM

Tornado Rampage 2011 on Discovery.

6/2/2011 9:10:30 PM

I can't really remember a time in my life that there were this many tornadoes.

6/2/2011 9:11:45 PM

It's been since the '50s. Now we know you're less than 60 years old

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ]

6/2/2011 9:12:28 PM

hahaha

6/2/2011 9:13:02 PM

^^i've been thinking the same thing. maybe the world really is ending...

6/2/2011 9:13:22 PM

There's no doubt that this year is exceptional. But the trend is discern because there are more people around now to report tornadoes. Technology to forecast and detect tornadoes has also vastly improved since the 50s.

6/3/2011 12:23:04 AM

Plus there have been a lot that have hit major population centers this year. If they were all strolling through corn fields no one would even notice the increased numbers.

6/3/2011 9:28:03 AM

^i was gonna post the exact same thing.

Raleigh, NC
Springfield, MA
Joplin, MO
Tuscaloosa, AL
Birmingham, AL

not to mention all of the smaller cities, but still population areas that took direct hits. Just amazing

6/3/2011 12:59:22 PM

t-storms popping up in the triad

6/9/2011 3:13:37 PM

just as i click this thread and see a lil red dot just north of charlotte i hear a lil clap of thunder. greaaaaat

6/9/2011 3:47:26 PM

We need a term to say "it's exactly the same as 20 years ago - it's just that you find out faster via your twitter feed or we have a better method of detecting the phenomenon - it's not actually getting worse"

6/9/2011 3:49:05 PM

turmoil being created in virginia beach

6/10/2011 4:39:46 PM

Lol... it looks like we are having severe storms here.


There isn't a drop of rain anywhere.

6/10/2011 7:19:28 PM

Quote :

"Temperature soars to 102 after midnight Thursday in 'heat burst' Jerilyn Billings thought she had been teleported from Wichita to the desert. "It was like I was in Phoenix," she said in a Facebook post. It was no wonder — the temperature as 1 a.m. neared on Thursday had climbed to 102. Readings surged 17 degrees in 20 minutes — from 85 at 12:22 a.m. to 102 at 12:42 a.m. It's almost certainly the first time the temperature has soared into triple digits after midnight in Wichita, weather officials said. The spike was the result of a heat burst, which occurs when dry air plummets to the Earth's surface as a thunderstorm collapses, meteorologists said. As the air nears the ground, it heats dramatically."

http://www.kansas.com/2011/06/10/1886046/temperature-soars-to-102-after.html

6/10/2011 8:38:30 PM

THUNDER AND HEAVY RAIN.

OFF KAPLAN.

OFF BLUE RIDGE.

6/10/2011 11:25:37 PM

those storm cells seem like they have been sitting in the same spot since about 5:00 tonight

6/10/2011 11:35:23 PM

I thought I heard thunder and I immediately came to check if a storm was a brewin

6/11/2011 12:13:34 AM

^^ For the most part, they were.

Quote :

"As the air nears the ground, it heats dramatically.""

I love you, dry adiabatic lapse rate.

6/11/2011 12:40:39 AM

getting rough in person county

[Edited on June 11, 2011 at 6:25 PM. Reason : little bit of hail in there too]

6/11/2011 6:23:35 PM

Itsa brewin, Mario!

6/11/2011 6:45:53 PM

was thinking of going out tonight but i don't know with the storms. the hourly forecast says 7-8 high chance and then like 11-12 high chance. and i wanted to wear a maxi dress. ugh.

6/11/2011 6:46:42 PM

First world problems. ITT

6/11/2011 6:49:37 PM

well I was supposed to meet a fraannnn at charlie goodnights at 9pm

I would rather stay home and finish this wedding program if it's gonna storm

WHAT DO I DO?

6/11/2011 6:50:50 PM

^^ I KNOW RIGHT

^ hmmmmm. well it IS saturday night. brave the storm!!!

6/11/2011 6:51:45 PM

but I need to have it done by tomorrow

6/11/2011 6:52:39 PM

I drove through the storm that's about to come through Raleigh as it went through Greensboro. It poured like hell and there was a little bit of hail. Was very very close to pulling over.

6/11/2011 7:30:11 PM

It's my caffeine, and I need it now!

Seriously I have a massive headache and can't tell whether I'm fighting the hangover or the caffeine withdrawal. I can fix one of these with a quick trip to the store during a thunderstorm! *flee*

6/11/2011 7:36:49 PM

You should always have multiple sources of caffiene on hand at all times.

6/11/2011 7:45:39 PM

I've got mints but they aren't acceptable.

My journey in the weaksauce rain involved:

* People driving 10 under the speed limit because it was wet outside.

* Parking in a large puddle of child puke.

* Fixing one of the battery terminals in the rain so the car would start.

* Encountering one of the whiniest little tv-obsessed shitheads I've seen in weeks.

But I have caffeine.

6/11/2011 9:01:36 PM

THUNDERRRRRRRRRR

and wind

and darkness

6/12/2011 7:19:03 PM

everytime it looks stormy outside i have the urge to drink. it just seems right.

6/12/2011 7:20:30 PM

I could dig a big ass thunderstorm tonight

6/12/2011 7:24:44 PM

humm my room just got cooler by a good 5-8 degrees in the last few mins, I think its about to rain

6/12/2011 7:30:46 PM

seemed like it was going to storm big here in N Ral

its already going away though it seems like. never really got close. rained some big drops for a few mins, still dripping (maybe) a little right now. but the thunder is going away and it isn't as dark/windy as it was a few mins ago

WHAT A RIP

6/12/2011 7:33:57 PM

THUNDER AND DARK CLOUDS

OFF BLUE RIDGE

6/12/2011 7:40:49 PM

That's it??? That was WEAK SON, WEAK!

6/12/2011 8:06:41 PM

i love this thread

that is all

[Edited on June 12, 2011 at 8:36 PM. Reason : i too have heard thunder and see dark clouds off Blue Ridge rd ]

6/12/2011 8:31:45 PM

WEAK indeed

roads are already drying up

I was hoping for a rainy bike ride :/

6/12/2011 8:34:15 PM

I thought wes was gonna get raped but then ~

6/12/2011 9:43:45 PM

yea that was like... < ~

that was like

not even worthy of a storm prediction at all. like don't throw a thunder cloud on my weather forecast unless you mean it. k, THOR?

6/12/2011 9:45:03 PM

Coming in strong

6/18/2011 6:56:30 PM