2011 Spring/Summer/Fall Weather Thread

[brettac1]

This has been a horribly overrated storm in the Wausau area. Not even a drop of rain. Just some wind.

[dadofandrew]

My wife had to stop at a gas station in Plainfield on her way home from Milwaukee, hail and rain incredibly hard. Merrill got hit hard. It split Wausau.

[TooLiveBrew]

Judging by the radar, that storm near Appleton has some huge hail and probably a tornado.

 

Edit: tornado and baseball sized hail now officially reported with that storm. Look out.

No hail of any real size for me in Appleton. I think I heard some hitting against the windows, but I didn't see any. The lightning was impressive. I've never seen so much lighting with a storm before -- it was almost literally constant.

[Hammer]

No hail of any real size for me in Appleton. I think I heard some hitting against the windows, but I didn't see any. The lightning was impressive. I've never seen so much lighting with a storm before -- it was almost literally constant.

We had brutal winds, heavy sideways rain and as TLB said, constant lightning in Omro. What a crazy storm!

[jazzytrav]

At the 9:55 mark, I was almost certain the world was about to end.

 

[TooLiveBrew]

Great video, & thanks for posting that, jazzy.

[brettac1]

I'm happy we didn't get the rain in Wausau. The river is already ridiculously high and I want to fish on it this week. I believe it was supposed to crest today. Though I guess they got about 2" of rain in the Merrill area, so it doesn't matter all that much.

[crewcrazy]

Some of the hail stones from the La Crosse area, from WKBT's online gallery.

 

http://slideshows.embtv.com/upload/photos/2011/04/10/ce9ceb489991b2c70ba6481ba995896b_mid.jpg

 

http://slideshows.embtv.com/upload/photos/2011/04/11/52487b135eaf2e40f1219d854f859177_mid.jpg

 

http://slideshows.embtv.com/upload/photos/2011/04/10/a3215b215822a9c107e73d9e339378f9_mid.jpg

 

Luckily nothing that bad where I was, but still scary to think about.

[owbc]

Amazing hailstones. Saw some like that in Missouri once, they looked like missiles falling from the sky.

 

One of the storm chasers got some good video of the Merrill tornado:

 

[pitchleague]

question about your video, jazzy. Was this just a lightning show? No thunder? I've seen those but I thought it was more of a desert phenomenon. Thanks for sharing, though.

[PlayerHader]

I doubt if this is the same, but in the summer we often get heat lightning. Amazing light shows, but no booms.

EDIT: After some research, I'm not so sure that what I'm talking about is officially "heat" lightning. That's what I've always called it, though.

[RyDogg66]

In Oshkosh it was just like jazzy's video with no thunder to speak of. It was non stop lightning though.

[dadofandrew]

A few years ago, we were at my sister's in Boscobel, it was so stormy, the thunder was constant for about 10 minutes...no silence, some rumbles, some cracks. Lightning was closer than in the video above, but also nonstop. Never experienced that before or since.

[kestrel79]

Jazzy where was that video taken Neenah?

 

Looks very similar to what I saw here in Oshkosh. Constant lightning, minimal thunder...it was really cool as it moved in, but the majority of the actual storm missed me here. I didn't see any large hail like others claimed it must of been hit or miss. I wouldn't want one of those things hitting me anyways so not a bad thing http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[jazzytrav]

It was on the south side of Neenah. I'm just off the no longer existing Breezewood Ln exit. We were basically just south of where most of the damage happened in Neenah.

 

Pitch, it seemed like there was a low rumble throughout. It was almost hard to pick out because at some point it just becomes a drone. It started to pick up a bit later when the streaks started.

[NeedMoreFans]

I'm sure everyone has seen what the south has gone through this week. Wow. They said there were over 150 tornadoes yesterday, and the average April has 116, nationwide. It is really unfortunate so many people have lost their lives in these storms.

[hawing]

That is crazy bad. The death toll is currently around 300 - more like there used to be back before Doppler radar and improved forecasting. Of course, if a super monstrous tornado hits your neighborhood directly, it kind of doesn't matter how much notice you get.

This outbreak is being compared to the April 1974 outbreak, which I barely remember (I was 8 at the time).

[Invader3K]

OK, I hate to whine about the weather...but it's May 3rd, and it's 40 degrees out. Feels colder than that. I could really go for some nice temperatures in the 50s and 60s. We've had a couple decent days recently, but by and large this has been a pretty miserable "spring."

[adamb100]

Bumping this thread for how beautiful it is outside today.

[hawing]

Bumping this thread for how beautiful it is outside today.

So you probably don't want to know that the library's weather radio just sounded the alarm for another severe thunderstorm watch. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif

[adamb100]

I think we were under one yesterday and never saw any rain. :P

[trwi7]

Had a ton of rain and hail yesterday. This was a couple minutes after the hail started, it lasted about 10 more minutes.

 

http://oi54.tinypic.com/2w4iibl.jpg

 

 

[hawing]

So, Madison's got radar indicated rotation by the Beltline as I write this on a laptop from our basement. Watch out if you're to the east.

[radman12484]

Was getting pretty nasty last time I looked out my window in Butler here. Had the siren go off before, but nothing came of it.

[1992casey]

Twice is the last two days in Milwaukee, there's been thunder so strong that it knocked stuff out of place. One clap knocked a picture off the wall. Another knocked a stack of stuff off of the top of a freezer.