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A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/natio ... rnado.html

22 Wholey moley!!!

Foggy Hamilton wrote:A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22

Apparently temperatures in the Ohio River Valley had been a good 5 to 10
degrees above normal all through October. (That would be 5 to 10 degrees Farenheit, I think.)

Funny how difficult these things are to check out. I would have thought people would be watching out for extreme reactions to extreme weather.

There you go. Nought as queer as folk.

The upper trough crossed the upper North Island overnight. Had some patchy rain here in Auckland. Still overcast and cool this morning (15C).
May see a few afternoon showers again, depending on how quickly the instability clears today.

a stiff E breese this morning woke to a heavy shower at 7 30 am dropped 5mm heavy rain on the radar this morning from about welsford north moving in a west direction can see that it is very dark to my east so could possibly be in for some good falls 2day I saw that clip on th enews last night about the tornado in the USA holy moly alright

Cool,overcast,Easterly,16C.
One fine day would be very nice.

A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22

A lot of people live in Caravan parks over there in the USA, no protection if a Tornado comes through.

spwill wrote:A lot of people live in caravan parks over there in the USA, no protection if a Tornado comes through.

One of the strongest in decades or something... most deadly?

In winter... at that.

Apart from the fact that building controls in most of the USA are "somewhat" lax, there is a tendency to place trailer parks in regions no-one in their right minds would build an house for themselves.

All grist to the mill for people who propound the theory that the world is getting warmer (than whatever it is supposed to do or be.)

So what explains the series of extreme events that should ultimately cause cooling as witnessed by all the supertyphoons and hurricanes in the last few months?

And it isn't over yet. In 2 or 3 weeks the USA or somewhere nearby is due another one.

Some nice Cj is bubbling up in the western skies atm.. 21c, dewpoint 14c, almost calm

THSW indices soaring here.. and has lead to a few showers across the great basin this afternoon.

Mostly sunny over the city, 22c, dewpoint 15c with hardly a breath of wind

You and your fancy language Foggy!

What does Cj mean? I'm guessing some type of Cumulus cloud.

And what does THSW indices mean? lol

Cheers

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:What does Cj mean? I'm guessing some type of Cumulus cloud.

And what does THSW indices mean? lol

The THSW Index uses humidity and temperature like the Heat Index, but also includes the heating effects of sunshine and the cooling effects of wind (like Wind chill) to calculate an apparent temperature of what it “feels” like out in the sun.

It gets calculated by the Davis VP2 station

Cj is the abbreviation for cumulus conjestus.. or is it a g?

Cheers

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Cj is the abbreviation for cumulus conjestus.. or is it a g?

Cheers

Its a 'g'. No wonder I hadnt the foggiest what you were on about

TonyT wrote:

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Cj is the abbreviation for cumulus conjestus.. or is it a g?

Cheers

Its a 'g'. No wonder I hadnt the foggiest what you were on about

hmm well, actually it's both according to WZ, originally it was a j.. from the word jest (Latin), which means to make a remark intended to make someone laugh.. so what it means is 'cumulus with jest' or cumulus with humour

So this has been turned into a 'g' somewhere down the line..

No sorry, nice try but no points there. Congestus comes from the same Latin root as congestion, and means a sky which has become congested with clouds, ie many cumulus all sprouting upwards and obscuring the blue.

Edit: It seems congestus means piled up, so the sky is not so much congested with clouds, as having clouds which have piled up, ie got taller than they are wide.

Been 10c above normal there

Weatherlawyer wrote:

Foggy Hamilton wrote:A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22

Apparently temperatures in the Ohio River Valley had been a good 5 to 10
degrees above normal all through October. (That would be 5 to 10 degrees Farenheit, I think.)

Funny how difficult these things are to check out. I would have thought people would be watching out for extreme reactions to extreme weather.

There you go. Nought as queer as folk.

...that's nice
Lovely day here today. some wind and cloud.
should be more of the same tomorrow

JohnGaul
NZTS

Thanks for that Foggy, look here:

http://downunderchase.com/miscellaneous ... onary.html

Just remembered that part of his site.

Cheers

One of the strongest in decades or something... most deadly?

Most deadly since May 1999.

There has not been an F5 recorded in USA since the May1999.

By looking at this radar looks like something beafy and heavy off Taranaki lots of pink .
Doesnt seem to be any electrical activity so i think its just a local convergence zone.
Cheers
JASON.

By looking at this radar looks like something beafy and heavy off Taranaki lots of pink .
Doesnt seem to be any electrical activity so i think its just a local convergence zone.

Short forecast for all New Zealand

Short forecast for all New Zealand to midnight Thursday 10-Nov-2005

Issued by MetService at 08:05pm 09-Nov-2005

Northland
Cloudy periods, with isolated showers tomorrow afternoon and evening, mainly in the north.

For the remainder of the North Island, also Nelson
Fine, apart from some cloudy periods from Taranaki to Wellington.


MetService hasn't predicted it, so must be some unexpected disturbance or convergence zone

a flock of seagulls perhaps?

All those echoes on the Wellington radar picture are another example of anomalous propagation, where the radar beam is getting bent back onto the ground (from a low-level temperature inversion). In this case the beam is hitting the hills of South Taranaki and Wanganui, which provides a very strong signal. These types of false radar echoes are very difficult to remove.

a flock of seagulls perhaps?

Or new volcanic activity? - but I think that'd be in the news by now.

did you see that hearld article about how mt egmont/taranaki is overdue to go off....it does regularly...