You'd want to catch it in your glass rather than pick it up from the ground.
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Yeah, we didn't let Master dglh eat the piece I brought in for him. It was a good storm though - I am trying to locate a picture that was on NBC of one of the funnels someone caught on camera. It is definitively "shit - that is big".Comment
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So, in like a lion where you are this morning?Comment
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I realise that this isn't going to come as a massive surprise, but: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68435197Comment
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That follows on from the driest every February last year followed by the wettest ever March also in 2023. I wonder what March 2024 will bring for us.Comment
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Originally posted by Paul S View Post
Well, if the forecasts are accurate, the first half of the month is looking pretty wet in the SE though interspersed with a few sunny days.Comment
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It's sunny, the palm trees are looking pretty but it's hazy this morning and I can only just see the mountains.
But there are showers forecast for the evening and through the night, so we are seeing part of this storm. Further north things are different. The latest forecast now talks of up to 12 feet of snow in places. For those of you who don't speak 19th century, that 3.5 meters of snow. In a single storm. And up at the crest of the hills at the Palisades resort in Tahoe, they seem to have recorded a 145mph gust. I hope nobody is stupid enough to think they should still be enjoying their ski trip this weekend and they all stayed home instead.Comment
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Just reading about 174mph wind gusts up there yesterday, wind speed expected to increase today...
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Yeah. It's worth remembering, though, that while these are hurricane strength gusts, it's not really hurricane force winds - it's high-ish winds that then get funneled up the valleys which accelerates up near the crest. Meanwhile, the UC Berkeley snow lab are reporting 101cm of snow so far from this storm, with another 2 days of storm to go. It might not actually hit the 10 foot forecast, but it's going to be a lot.Originally posted by Moonlight Shadow View PostComment
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Our nephew and his girlfriend went up to Tahoe earlier this week "to experience the storm".
Young people are built different.Comment
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I hope they're OK. And I hope they stocked up their cabin/hotel room with several days worth of snacks.Comment
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They are and haveComment
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TV has just reported rain rates in the area of 5 inches an hour. It’s very wet. This is the storm that fucked me on my travel 2 days ago.Comment
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How much rain fallsComment
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I don't think that graphic represents the past 12 months - it was the comment about water in the atmosphere that I was more interested inComment
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
Ah, OK. The graphic made no sense when taking about annual precipitation, which was why I wondered if "rainfall accumulation" was some measure that I'd previously been unaware of.Comment
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Yeah, looking at the replies on Twitter someone queried the graphic.
EDIT - among lots of denialists taking the piss. "I thought we were supposed to be having droughts. Make your mind up LOL"Comment
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The poster appears to be using the term as a reference to the degree of saturation in the atmosphere, which is not a use I have encountered before (nor one that appears on a quick Google).Comment
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I liked it when it didn't rain for 4 months.Comment
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According to an article in today's Graun, despite all this rain we're going to have hosepipe bans etc this Summer. And that wasn't yesterday's April Fool.Comment
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It was a very clickbaity but the article only said we could still have droughts this summer, as we're not properly conserving winter rainfall.Comment
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