The pictures above were from just south of Joliet yesterday afternoon. It was pretty wild
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I am so much more frightened of storms now than I ever was then.
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Fair enough. As I grow (much) older, I have a bit more fear than I used to, mainly because I understand more of what they can do and have, unfortunately, been through bad one and their effects.
In general, in most parts of the US, you’ll be safe through anything classified as a “storm”. Tornados are, of course, a whole other thing, but with a little bit of preparation, you should be able to understand what to do in them. I’ve got several members of my family with storm anxiety and one of the best things I’ve found to help is education - understanding what is happening and why. The other most useful thing is getting them (and me, at times) to accept it; after all, you cannot move the storm. If something happens, then you can plan and take action after. No one that I know can simply turn off the storm so you have to instead think past it.
I realize all of that is FAR easier to type and read than do, but it’s ok. Storms do feel stronger than they were before, and I personally believe the evidence that this is driven by climate change, which also suggests that it will continue to happen and likely get worse, barring our actions to counter. Will we? Only time will tell.
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Sunny with a high around 90°/32° today.
Some rain moving through now.
Tomorrow should be 10° cooler.
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Currently 93, feels like 104.
We had a little rain in the afternoon. Rather than bringing the humidity down and cooling things off, it just made things extra swampy for a bit – our house’s windows fogged up solid white.
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Got up to about 93°/34° today, but thunderstorms are headed this way, predicted to cover 70% of the area.
Supposed to be 76°/24° tomorrow! Nice.
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I have just realized, through practical observation, that the white circles emanating from the lightning strikes is meant to represent the sound wave i.e. thunder. A very useful feature.
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All excellent advice. I believe we’re around the same age, and like you, my awareness of climate change and having had to deal with the aftermath of storms is what puts me on edge now, unlike when I was a child. When we have guests from other parts of the country/world, I make a point to tell them what to do, in general and in our home, just in case, because I know that kind of knowledge is regional rather than universal.
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It’s been a really weird August out here. Cooler temps, but it feels hotter because we’ve had unusually high humidity. Like it’s late afternoon right now and the humidity is over 50%. In the mornings, it’s been 70%. That may not sound high, but it’s really, really high for the Willamette & Columbia valleys. It’s 76 and I’m sweating my ass off. A couple of weeks ago it was 90 and quite pleasant.
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right now, hurrican Erin is out there on the other side of us by hundreds of miles.
we will not get anything from this storm, not even big swells or waves - the Bahamian shallows and our barrier reef will still any residual wake from this storm.
we will be going out from Islamorada for tuna next week. i expect smooth water and good conditions at that time, as Erin will be far to the east and north of us by then.
i see a fortunate return.
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Still looking like Erin will miss most of the Bahamas. The eastern and northern Bahamas are still nervous (post Dorian PTSD). Watching carefully though. I have people there.
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Forecast went from no rain today (yesterday’s forecast), to on and of thunderstorms (mid day and morning forecast), to 2.75 inches in the next 3 hours. No idea what we’ll actually get.
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I left a case of Coke Zero in the car last night when we got home from the grocery store. It’s usually considerably cooler in the garage than outside, so I figured this would be fine, and I’d just grab the box and put it on the basement stairs before driving to work and…
…I did not remember to grab the box and put it on the basement stairs before driving to work. I did park in the parking garage at work,but it was still 96 degrees according to the car’s thermometer.
One can actually burst open, and lost 4.1 ounces of soda (I weighed all the cans to make sure there weren’t any others that lost anything). Five others were threatening to burst but hadn’t yet.
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I’m sorry. But also I just put on wool socks and a flannel shirt and my world just feels a little better. I’m sorry!
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I’m sorry
Canadian proximity detection alert!
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That sucks… I guess at least it wasn’t milk?
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