hurricane season 2022

lizardlady · Jun 03, 2022 at 05:49 PM

Hurricane season started June 1st. First storm of the season is headed for us. Angela crossed Mexico from the Pacific. The remnants are in the Gulf and expected to build back up to storm level. It's been horribly dry here. A couple of days of rain would be nice. We can do without the winds though.

I haven't done much storm prep outside since we aren't supposed to get anything other than rain. I did go outside this afternoon and take down all my orchids I have hanging in the yard. I don't anticipate enough wind to turn them into projectiles, but they could get blown down and damaged.

Anyone else out there have to deal with hurricanes?

downandlonely · Jun 03, 2022 at 06:07 PM

Yes, I'm in Houston so we get them from the Gulf. But where I am, the wind is not usually an issue. It's a rain that causes major flooding. I was here for Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but luckily my apartment complex didn't flood and I didn't lose power, water, or Internet.

Nammu · Jun 03, 2022 at 06:26 PM

No hurricanes here, just tornadoes and blizzards. Seems like less blizzards but we’re getting winter thunderstorms and tornadoes 🌪 more frequently. A small town was pretty much wiped out a month and a half ago. It’s early to be getting such storms.

unaluna · Jun 03, 2022 at 10:51 PM

We did have a storm with straight line winds up to 68 mph just the week about 20 miles away. I was like, isnt 70 mph an EF1? I will google.

Ef0 is 65 - 87. Its the exanded fujita scale adopted this century, they added the zero category. I should inform our local meteorologists!

eskielover · Jun 04, 2022 at 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Nammu

No hurricanes here, just tornadoes and blizzards. Seems like less blizzards but we’re getting winter thunderstorms and tornadoes 🌪 more frequently. A small town was pretty much wiped out a month and a half ago. It’s early to be getting such storms.

I always thought there was a tornado season just like hurricane BUT....obviously not cause our W Ky got hit by many tornadoes in that storm right before Christmas. We get mostly straight line winds where I live but one night we were on tornado watch just after one of the foals was born on the TB farm right next to mine where I was working. We were caring for the foal & keeping an eye on the weather app for our area. Got home at 5am that morning & huge branches had broken out of the tree next to my driveway & across the fencing for my neighbors cows. A chair was blown all the way across my front deck along with other things I had just setting out there.

We don't get the amount of warning as with hurricanes & sometimes we get things picked up just as the storm starts hitting then fly inside & wait to see what damage it causes in the next 30+ minutes as the storm buldozes through.

We had my first HUGE hail, hail storm in my 15 years living here the other night. One hail stone was the size of the palm of my hand, most golf ball size.

Lol....we just got wind & blowing sand where I lived in Calif

Nammu · Jun 04, 2022 at 09:29 AM

We also get derechos, straight light winds of over 100 mph that are accompanied by thunderstorms and often produce tornadoes too. They are pretty rare but our neighbors, Iowa just recently had one. They are theories that with climate change there’s gonna be more of them.

MuseumGhost · Jun 04, 2022 at 10:20 AM

We just endured a very frightening day here in Ontario (May 21, two weeks ago), with those derecho winds wreaking havoc for a very long stretch, north and east of us. We were spared. But it was a rare phenomenon for here. Our worst weather normally comes with the arrival of Winter. However, this storm knocked out power to over 300,000, took the roofs off of whole buildings, and killed 8 people, last I heard.

downandlonely · Jun 04, 2022 at 10:33 AM

Hope you are ok @MuseumGhost

MuseumGhost · Jun 04, 2022 at 10:38 AM

Thanks, downandlonely. We are alright. Like I said, we were spared. But watching that afternoon's weather unfold (via the news, out of our North-facing windows, and online for awhile) was a strange mixture of worrying and terrifying.

The big weather reporting people here in Canada missed it; so people weren't prepared to evacuate or do any prep for that storm. We were only told it would be heavy thunderstorms, and some wind gusts, which of course we are used to. (If we get tornadoes in this part of the world, they are one-offs, and normally happen years apart.)

The net effect was like a line of tornadoes that stretched for something like 600+ miles. It did an awful lot of damage. It was like the destruction you see in the Midwest during tornado season.

destruction in Ontario from derechos, May 2022 - Google Search

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downandlonely Legendary Member Since Mar 2018 Location: United States Posts: 10,760 (SuperPoster!) 6 10.6k hugs given	Jun 03, 2022 at 06:07 PM #2 Yes, I'm in Houston so we get them from the Gulf. But where I am, the wind is not usually an issue. It's a rain that causes major flooding. I was here for Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but luckily my apartment complex didn't flood and I didn't lose power, water, or Internet.
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 39,843 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.3k hugs given	Jun 03, 2022 at 10:51 PM #4 We did have a storm with straight line winds up to 68 mph just the week about 20 miles away. I was like, isnt 70 mph an EF1? I will google. Ef0 is 65 - 87. Its the exanded fujita scale adopted this century, they added the zero category. I should inform our local meteorologists!
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downandlonely Legendary Member Since Mar 2018 Location: United States Posts: 10,760 (SuperPoster!) 6 10.6k hugs given	Jun 04, 2022 at 10:33 AM #8 Hope you are ok @MuseumGhost
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