Severe Weather?

[Ally-Ann]

We got some nasty weather here yesterday. Allow me to elaborate.

First of all, let me explain, to an extent, where I live. I literally live on the beach. I just have to walk down a hill in my backyard and there it is. Yesterday, we had a terrible storm. My mom woke me up from my nap and I walked downstairs to where she, my brother, and a friend who's staying here was. The winds were 58 mph, and we could see stuff blowing everywhere. And then out the back door window, we saw two funnel clouds forming over the water, one of which turned into a tornado when it went further inland. I didn't get to see the tornado, though, because my mom put the outside storm windows down. I didn't even get a picture of the funnel clouds. So that was the big scare of the week! Oddly enough, when I was napping and before the storm started at all, I had been dreaming about bad weather. I wish the funnel cloud(s) had turned into a water spout!:waah!: I kind of want to see something like this happen again so I can see another funnel cloud or tornado... as long as the tornado isn't severe. Yeah. I'm half crazy. Anywho~ What's the weather been like for the rest of you?

[Okami]

Weather's been bad here, too. I'm currently in the midst of a thunderstorm. By 5pm it's going to turn to 100% thunderstorms, by 9pm to 90%, by midnight 80%, and it's supposed to storm tomorrow, too. I love this kind of weather!

[aliveinHim]

We're having hot and humid weather. Blegh.

[Maledicte]

Windy. Lots of tornado warnings. Random strong and sporadic rain and thunderstorms.

I just moved out to Kansas.

Help.

[Ally-Ann]

Windy. Lots of tornado warnings. Random strong and sporadic rain and thunderstorms.

I just moved out to Kansas.

Help.

Oh my. Praying for you.

[Maledicte]

Oh my. Praying for you.

It's not that bad. I'm just not used to it, and the tornadoes don't touch down for the most part.

I'm used to the earth's crust shaking under me uncontrollably, haha. Somehow I find that more tolerable than any weather. (I'm from California originally.)

[Scarecrow]

Just hot here like it always is. When we have a "storm", some wind and sprinkles. The sprinkles may turn into like actual rain for about 5 minutes but even this rain would be laughed at in other places where they actually do have bad weather. The most exciting thing we ever get is extreme fog and the fog days are long past. It has been unusual for these light showers in may though but still... I don't really call this severe weather. If it gets real window or moderate showers, people freak out at the "bad weather" >.>

Oh, and I would love to see a tornado. Or a thunderstorm... or some lightning. Maybe not a tornado in town but off in the boonies somewhere. The closest thing I've ever got to seeing a tornado was a spinning dust cloud moving through a dirt field.

[Nate]

We got a pretty awful storm with some strong winds yesterday/last night. I can't say if we're getting more or less severe weather this year than we have the past few years, although I will say none of them are as strong as some of the past ones.

[ShiroiHikari]

Yesterday in Oklahoma, there was a line of massive storms from the north edge of the state down to the south edge, and it just kinda swept all the way across the state. There were some tornadoes, but we've had much worse. My immediate area didn't get hit by anything but rain and a little bit of hail, so thank God for that. The weather is beautiful today.

[Atria35]

Flipping miserable.

Last week, we had flooding. If the river behind my apartments had risen another 5 feet, I would have been flooded out. Then it's been thunderstorming almost every night- and sometimes in the morning, with a tornado warning/tornado watch every other day. In fact, right now there's a tornado watch, but I'm at my parent's right now.

[ashfire]

I would suggest with the weather like it has been to go buy a weather alert radio. It can be a life saver in the middle of the night when you don't have a TV or AM/FM radio on. I bought one years ago after a tornado struck a town south of where my anime club use to meet at the community college.
I have 3 working radios in the house in the bedrooms. They are loud when they alert. Two of them are portable run on batteries or AC adapters and one is a table model.
You can get them at Radio Shack, Target, even Sports Authority in the camp supplies.
They are also good to alert for other emergencies by Homeland Security.

[TopazRaven]

The weather has surprisingly enough been very hot the past two days, around 80 degrees. It was even sunny today. It's supposed to be cloudy and maybe a little colder tomorrow, but so far they aren't predicting rain. We're supposed to get hit with thunderstorms on Friday and maybe over the weekend with the possability of a tornado if it gets really bad. In least that's the last the news told me.

[Darth_Kirby]

It's been very nice where I am. It's in the mid-to-high 70s here. lol The tornado people are going to hate me for enjoying such blissful weather. T.T jk

[Tsukuyomi]

We had a series of thunderstorms earlier and more to come.. Pretty calm right now though ^__^ I'm cold though :\ xD

[TopazRaven]

Well, I certainly wish everyone having severe weather problems good luck. Especially if you live in tornado range. I really rather enjoy living in the mid-Atlantic right now. Haven't had a tornado in my state since 1994 if I'm correct even though we have gotten a warning this year, the worst it did was tear the roof off a barn in another county.

[Rewin]

Just hot here like it always is. When we have a "storm", some wind and sprinkles. The sprinkles may turn into like actual rain for about 5 minutes but even this rain would be laughed at in other places where they actually do have bad weather. The most exciting thing we ever get is extreme fog and the fog days are long past. It has been unusual for these light showers in may though but still... I don't really call this severe weather. If it gets real window or moderate showers, people freak out at the "bad weather" >.>

Oh, and I would love to see a tornado. Or a thunderstorm... or some lightning. Maybe not a tornado in town but off in the boonies somewhere. The closest thing I've ever got to seeing a tornado was a spinning dust cloud moving through a dirt field.

You must live in the same area as me. Mid 80's right now, but we've got a nice breeze going so it's nice out.
btw Scarecrow, we have had tornadoes out in the country by me although they very very rarely touch down. A couple years ago one of our hay barn roof's got blown off and we're guessing it was a tornado that got close to touching down but don't think it actually did. Oh, and I'd happily trade our awful fog for some real rain and thunderstorms, just no tornadoes please

[FllMtl Novelist]

Umm... I've been loving the weather, where I live. It was rainy for days, and now it's sunny and warming up delightfully again.

[ChristianKitsune]

Yah, Kansas residencee here. I'm praying for may to get over with quickly so that the "peak Tornado" producing season can go away. I love rain, I love thunderstorms but I despise tornadoes with a passion.

Although for the most part our county has gotten "Tornado Warnings." but they never hit my town, nor did those tornadoes ever do any major damage. Not like those in Joplin or Tuscaloosa anyway. (The idea of those frighten me though and I do get shivers down my spine whenever I hear the "T" Word. Thus annoying my roomies and keeping them updated with "Everything's okay, it won't hit us." because it makes me feel better XD

I guess here in KS we are used to false alarms so a lot of people actually GO OUTSIDE and watch the suckers. D8

Bunch of sillies if you ask me.

[Sheenar]

Supposed to be near record-high temperatures for this time of the year today (high of 96.) Had a big lightning storm last night, but only a small sprinkling of rain. But there was a tornado warning last night for the east part of my county and the county east of us (a tornado was spotted 7 miles from a town in that county.) But nothing happened as far as I know --the warning was lifted at 12:15 am. Tornadoes terrify me even though I've never actually been through one (though it's been close before.)

We usually get a lot of rain each year (being near the gulf), but this has been an unusually dry year so far here in the Houston area. We had wildfires last month because of that (not in Houston, but farther north and west.)

Could really use some good, hard rainfall here. But no tornadoes.

[ShiroiHikari]

People go outside to look for them in Oklahoma too. Actually, what I do is leave the TV tuned to Oklahoma City TV stations and pay close attention, because those meteorologists are really on their game around here. I wish other states had awesome weather coverage like we do. It saves lives.

[ChristianKitsune]

Yah the meterologists here in KS are pretty good too, and are actually very comforting when they go into the detail of the storm and are like "Yah there's not a lot of velocity with with this storm, and we aren't REALLY seeing a lot of rotation, but we want everyone to be safe." Sort of deal. (of course I don't have cable so I Was watching this online which I'm thankful that the channel has this ability)

What's weirding me out is this crazy pattern of severe thunderstorms after the sun goes down and into the early morning hours. We got a severe thunderstorm at 6 AM the other day, that was very strange. In my years of living in the plains, I've always thought that storms need some heat to gather strength and the sun always helped fuel them. Lol.

[Xeno]

I live in central Oklahoma, not too far from Piedmont, which got slapped hard by a tornado on Tuesday. I was working in the 911 dispatch center the entire time the storm was going on though.

[ChristianKitsune]

In a different set of "Severity" has anyone had a lot of moths around their home? The other day I went out to my car and literally HUNDREDS of them poured out of the cracks when I opened the door. It was like a scene out of a horror film. I wonder if it's something to do with the weather?

It was apparently something that a lot of people in my town was dealing with, I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.

[Atria35]

o.O" No, but my apartment has an issue with box bugs. Those are definitely weather-related.

[TheMewster]

I recently went through a thunderstorm.

[Ally-Ann]

The weather's been pretty nice here since the big storm. I'm happy. =3

[Atria35]

Let's see... had a huge storm (though it came and passed while I was in the movies- but it caused a power surge that affected the lights and cut the sound for a bit). And there's flash flooding back at my apartment.... and the river is right behind my apartments >.>

[mechana2015]

Does seeing fog, high winds, heavy rain, hail and snow, all within 24 hours count?

[Atria35]

^ FOG! I forgot about the heavy fog we had all morning.

[Okami]

We had tornado watches and severe thuderstorm warnings most of the afternoon into the evening. Some of the clouds and lightning were really ominous. I was EXTREMELY glad, upon watching the news alerts, that I was not up at school right now, because they got hit hard. All the bad stuff went around my area...slightly disappointing (Why do I love adrenaline rushes and fear? XD) Thankfully the worst it sounds like was downed power lines and uprooted trees across state...I can imagine cleanup will be needed in a lot of the hard hit areas.