I’ve been busy mixing at the moment, and completely out of touch, with no time for following up on matters blogospheric (comment-thread rebuttals, etc.). Back in harness shortly, insh’Allah.
One thing I have seen is the utter devastation in Joplin, MO — and tonight I heard a meteorologist saying something like: “those were little tornadoes, but tomorrow, when the sun boils up all that moisture and a disturbance comes down out of the Rockies, there are likely to be big tornadoes all over the Midwest.”
That’s horrifying. This whole tornado thing is getting really out of hand, I have to say; we even had one here in Brooklyn last year. It’s getting almost, well, Biblical.
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Yes. It’s been bad. Personally, I’ve seen more lightning in the past oh, 40 days and 40 nights than in the past 40 years. Looks like tonight and tomorrow, there may be some more.
At the top of the map on this link, there’s a tab for “Reports” – scroll back in time to early April. April showers do bring May flowers – the problem this year is the flowers are probably somewhere over the North Atlantic.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/yesterday.html
Well. My friend out in Norman just called and told me they’d “expanded the zone” – earlier this am ‘the zone’ was limited to TX & OK. Since I can’t give my precise coordinates on a publicly accessible blogsite, here’s the next best thing – should anything show up (like a red dot) between Lat: 36.37 Lon: -92.47 and Lat: 35.73 Lon: -91.65, I’ll probably be offline. [Tho’ still underground.]
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/
Good luck, JK. I recall my own tornado, which I looked up at directly overhead. It was small but scary, and put deep fear into me.
I saw the Joplin tornado on video. It looked massive despite being ‘only’ a mile wide or so. Bigger ones have been recorded, and bigger are yet to come.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks Jeff, my head is down. Just hope the folks in Joplin are right now.
http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/USMO0457:1?phenomena=TO&significance=W&areaid=MOC097&office=KSGF&etn=0045