What's the equivalent of a French Toast alert for hailstones the size of golf balls?
By adamg - Tue, 05/27/2008 - 2:30pm.
Working at home today, I get to enjoy StormPanic 5 roughly every 90 seconds alerting us to the fact that Palmer or Springfield will be wiped off the face of the earth in 19 minutes. At one point, I swear Dick Albert said something like "If it gets really dark out there, better come inside."
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The Sporting Equipment Equivalency Level?
From "the size of shotgun pellets" up to "the size of softballs"?
Suldog
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Baseballs
Long, long ago, an editor at the paper where I was just starting out ran a banner front-page headline:
HAIL THIS BIG
Atop a photo of a baseball.
The hail was in Texas, the paper was in Framingham, but dammit, how often do you get to run something like that?
Pretty crazy line of storms
Haven't seen any pictures or video from the storm yet, but the radar looks evil. Hasn't hailed here for quite a while, it will be interesting if it does.
rain but no hail here
One of these big bad storms just rolled overtop Acton.
My car is now full of water. Not because of fictitious
hail smashing in the windows. Instead, jackass that I am,
I left them open.
porch umbrellas HAVE to be worked in somewhere
Perhaps we can do a scale of the size of the hail... pebble, golf, tennis, baseball, softball, basketball. Or, the threat to your open porch furniture umbrella. Minimal gustage will wiggle the umbrella... etc... all the way up to Dorothy holding the umbrella as the house is lifted out of kansas.
Packy Alerts!
I think I may have suggested this earlier in the year, but maybe a "packy alert" system for summer storms is in order.
It could start at 1 six-pack for an evening of thundershowers and work up to multiple cases for that fabled hurricane hunker-down.
For hailstorms? I like the sporting index - golf ball up to basketball. Or something like that.
Radar images
Channel 5, with the ultimate zoominess.
National Weather Service - less zoominess, but also less annoying-icons-all-over-the-place-ness.
Ooops
Hmmm, maybe I should have looked at the weather before biking in to work this morning. The bike helmet might come in handy as a hail protector.
Careful...
The last time someone posted something on this
site about bicycling to work, Adam had to buy
a small EMC storage array to store the resultant
comments, and flame-retardant in 55-gallon drums.
Nearly made the same error
#1 Son and I had planned on finally heading to his school together, which is on my way to work. Fortunately, he checked the weather and told me this morning that there could be trouble.
He might have barely made it home, except the wind would have been an issue. From the ominous sky outside, I'd be at risk of lightening, if not wind, hail, downpour ... SMOG!
Actually, the rail will take care of today's smog ...
planning ahead
ride it out! (pun intended)
the weathermen say it very well could be out of boston by 5.
As for all those people who planned ahead, I always think they look kind of silly walking around with umbrellas when the sun's back out.
inflexible schedule
When you absolutely positively need to be somewhere at 6pm and look presentable it isn't so easy.
Usually, I'd agree with you on waiting it out. I've done my share of dashing out between storm bands over the years, and planning routes that have coffee shops or other safe zones in case I "misunderestimate" the weather.
Same here!
I've got fenders on the bike I rode today, but maybe I should've brought a flak jacket!?
Looks like a pretty normal,
Looks like a pretty normal, mundane T-Storm to me...
Only unusual thing is it normally drys up before hitting Boston, or wraps around the city.
Check out Weather Underground
You can even zoom in on a region and get a full-color animated map!
Wunderground!
Check out the Red Blobs! Red = "very bad", not just garden variety.
Very localized
It looks very localized.
I'm wondering if I should've run the sprinkler this morning in Roslindale. Dry as a bone here.
Oops.. spoke too soon. There's the first rumbling of thunder.
Up here along the Hyde Park frontier
The sky is ominous and the wind is no longer freshening (love that word), which often means trouble, or at least, it did that time last year when I drove to the top of Millennium Park to see if I could get some good storm photos (yes, in hindsight, that was probably not the smartest thing I've ever done).
My eyes must be going
Because I've zoomed right into my street on the Channel 5 weather radar and it shows it's raining outside our house, and yet when I go to the window, I see only dry sidewalks (it is dark, though).
is there a delay?
is it "LIVE" doppler or is there a 10 minute delay on it (which is common)?
It is Raining / Lightning out in Downtown Boston
Photo Here
http://flickr.com/photos/gmack24/2529074292/
Storm just ended here in the North End
It's down to light rain now, and the sky has brightened back to a normal overcast color. Don't know if we're getting another wave later, though.
OK, now it's raining
But where's all the Apocalyptic Hail of Doom? Seems more like your basic spring rain storm.
seriously!
How disappointing.
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
Damn
Now that I don't have a car to worry about, I was actually hoping to see some hail for a change.
Total overkill
It was a nice storm but not a cataclysmic one, as the weather folks would have us believe.
I got to the beach about an
I got to the beach about an hour before it hit, got back on the T when it did, and by the time I got home (allston) its sunny again. Must have been a helluva storm though, the streets are like rivers. Fun in sandals...
Out here in t-storm alley
There isn't much going on in Hopkinton. A little rain, some noise. My window looks out south and west and there's nothing scary yet.
Man, I love summer t-storms. Years ago, I lived in a house in Westwood that had a great porch looking over a large open area, watching and listening to all the action.