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- Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:00 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
I got clobbered here in the New Boston area. I took video of some of the strong winds tearing off small limbs. The sky color was fairly ominous as well. Without power now, but running a gas generator so not too bad all things considered. This was quite the storm!
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:51 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
Definitely keeping an eye on the convergence of the two lines just northeast of Ann Arbor. That could also potentially produce a brief tornado in eastern Washtenaw and western Wayne county. That's also coinciding where the strongest updrafts are according to the latest satellite imagery.
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:39 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/2021/md1344.html Heads up for anyone in southern Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, and potentially even Lenawee and Monroe counties.. as well as southwest ontario including Windsor and Essex. The most intense band of convection continues to be the activity movin...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:13 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
NWS Pontiac has finally issued a severe tstorm warning for Oakland. Alexa and AAA both notified me instantly within a microsecond of each other. :) Livingston County is also included. The "tornado possible" verbiage that has been quite common with today's warnings is included. The velocity data wit...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:39 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
One really useful tool I like to use to assess the evolution of the strength of the updrafts is the really high resolution GOES-16 near infrared satellite imagery. The convection is higher in the atmosphere where there are colder brightness temperatures, and you can see the strong updrafts moving in...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:13 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
Those storms have meant business today. Bad things can definitely happen when you mix this kind of wind shear with a deeply tropical environment. The completely saturated troposphere over southern Michigan has a higher specific heat capacity than a typical airmass, so it will take longer for things ...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:26 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/2021/md1343.html Looks like Metro Detroit has been added to the watch now. The CAPE is sufficient for deep convection and this tropically moist airmass should slow cooling tonight, so the SPC has enough confidence to suspect these storms could make it here before...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:27 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
Thanks MW -- I appreciate your compliments and enjoy the conversation. There was a tornado warning for a confirmed tornado near Port Austin and moved east across Huron County in the thumb. A funnel cloud was also spotted in Saginaw. The Marine Warnings in Saginaw Bay all include mentions of possible...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
- Replies: 300
- Views: 40595
Re: I disagree with our weather forecasters on TV
I'm in overall agreement with your assessment, MW. There's a nice boundary in mid-Michigan from this morning's MCS in Northern Lower with thick cloud cover that's kept temps in the lower 70s to the north and 80s to the south. This boundary is lessentially traversing in an east-west line from Saginaw...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:16 pm
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: Maybe the time has come
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2893
Re: Maybe the time has come
Is there any single thread here where someone hasn't discredited someone by name-calling?
- Fri Jul 23, 2021 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Stadium
- Topic: Cleveland Indians now Cleveland Guardians
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2704
Re: Cleveland Indians now Cleveland Guardians
The name is tolerable, but ripoff winged Gs have to go...
- Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:17 pm
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1218
Re: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
I agree with what jadednihilist said. But how many folks would be glued to the Boob Tube if the newscaster and weatherman wasn't talking Gloom and Doom? Storm of the Century? 500 year event? Etc. You've hit the essence as to why I chose research over broadcasting. Hysteria certainly sells, but tele...
- Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1218
Re: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
Can you provide a tldr version of the above post? My bad... may I present myself as Exhibit A. Long story short, my reply is in response to the notion that Fauci or the scientific community has been committing fraud. I think that's a byproduct of the big disconnect in how we are all taught that sci...
- Thu Jul 22, 2021 4:37 pm
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: Mainstream media OBSESSED with Delta variant of Covid
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3550
Re: Mainstream media OBSESSED with Delta variant of Covid
I would personally strongly recommend vaccination as early indications show a higher degree of coincident antibodies in vaccinated individuals than in those with prior COVID infections. Show me a study that suggests that people with past Covid infections (ie, natural immunity) are getting re-infect...
- Thu Jul 22, 2021 10:47 am
- Forum: Political Potpourri - U.S. and World
- Topic: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1218
Re: Another Virus Has Been Exported To The US
Scientists (and I'm also guilty of this) have this bad habit of patronizingly communicating science-based recommendations to the public without the appropriate caveats. Part of this has to do with how easily distorted these caveats can become inside certain echo chambers; i.e. people hear only what ...