We had record heat the past couple days, and then today we had a microburst rip about 100 yard wide path of destruction through town. No one was hurt and no structural damage, but we had trees uprooted and 100 year old trees snapped in half. It was insane.
I didn’t lose any trees, but my red maple out front looks like someone sat on it.
cathyx
I’m having absolutely beautiful weather here. 70’s and sunny.
The Dangerman
Dead red, right down the middle.
/tunch-tease
kindness
Yea…but that global warming and the people who think it actually affects our weather….Jesus.
Libby
Yikes. Glad no one was hurt. Have to say though that downed tree looks fairly rotted in the core. Sad when they go, but I think of it as Mother Nature’s pruning the dead wood. Better it goes now without hurting someone than later when it’s bigger and more lethal.
Linda Featheringill
Good that no one was hurt.
But it is scary when the weather just turns loose with something, isn’t it?
Humans, masters of the universe. Yeah, right.
BGinCHI
Thanks Obama.
Clark Stooksbury
And Al Gore is fat.
the Conster
Could use some wind to blow the pine pollen away here. The whole Boston area looks like the dust bowl – never seen anything like it.
lorimakesquilts
Same system just came through Jefferson County. Must have lost some force along the way, plenty of rain and noise but just locust tree branches laying around here and there.
Martin
I thought you only let Tunch out in the back yard?
Stuck in the Funhouse
What happens when the pack of right wing jackals go on the hunt for a liberal terrorist? (of decades ago, and has served his time).
Sometimes the top right wing jackal gets frog marched his self for “incitement” WARNING : Robert Stacy Mccain link
We may have our firebaggers on the center left, but can feel relieved that they are not near as stupid as these motherfuckers from the right.
Hint to our nutters. “Free Speech does not go past incitement to violence, when you can’t control the worst crazies from your side making death threats, simply because you decided on a target ‘to be exposed’ by your so called citizen journalists, a target that does not deserve it in the here and now.
RossinDetroit
Apparently while I slept there were major storms around here last night. And I’m a light sleeper. A cell about a mile wide ripped hell out of an area 10,000 yards from us and power’s still out 16 hours later. I had no idea until this morning when a friend complained on FB that her car was at a dealership that got a lightning hit and caught fire.
PeakVT
The same system pushed three separate thunderstorms through town here, though there’s no damage that I know of. Now it’s disgustingly humid and the joint compound I applied earlier still isn’t dry enough to sand.
David Koch
This is DWS’ fault!
Violet
Wow. Glad there wasn’t worse damage. That tree does look sort of rotten. Not surprised it went, but glad it didn’t hurt anyone or their property when it fell.
It’s hot and miserable here. We’ve got four months of it to look forward too. Ugh. I hate summer.
red dog
From the cement slab next to the tree, I would guess a well or septic tank, with constant moisture at ground level, caused this tree to be toppled with just a good wind.
bemused
Northern Minnesotans shouldn’t pack away their long undies yet. It was a high of 51 today, rainy, windy, 43 last night and it may drop to below 40 tonight. Sigh.
Maude
The sky is getting dark in NJ. It has been very hot and muggy for a few days.
We may get a storm or it may pass by.
jharp
I wonder when I see trees that downed. I’ve got 3 oaks, 2 ashes, and a maple tree, big ones, that would crush my house if toppled like that.
currants
In VT for summer, moved here Saturday to a cottage on the first branch of the White River, gorgeous sunny weekend. Midnight last night the thunderstorms started: 3-4 inches of rain so far, and we’re still in severe thunderstorm, flash flood, and tornado warnings. River is RAGING, rain/lightning/thunder just doesn’t quit, and it’s looked like dusk since 3pm. The end is near.
(Did I mention we’re living near the birthplace of Joseph Smith, Mecca of Mormons?)
MikeBoyScout
God hates red maples.
PurpleGirl
@Maude: Thanks for your comment; it reminded me to go close the bedroom windows before any rain comes over Queens.
PurpleGirl
@currants: One of the posters at Making Light had an entry recently with pictures of the area and the historical markers and such. (They were passing through the area and had some extra time and took advantage of it to tour the monuments.)
Fluke bucket
I pity the folks that have to clean that mess up. I hate dragging limbs. But there will be some good firewood in it for somebody.
Canuckistani Tom
On Friday night I was up at my astronomy club’s observatory near Collingwood, ON. We were watching lightning flashes on the south horizon for several hours after sunset. Someone checked the weather radar to find out where the storm was, and we were all surprised to learn that we were watching a t-storm near Erie, PA, about 250 km to the south
quannlace
Here in Jersey we’re about to get smacked by a massive thunder/squall line coming in from PA. My dog, Kate, has been a basket case for the past two hours. Those rip or squall lines are pretty scary. The odd thing about them is when they hit, as Cole noted, the casualties are usually just trees. I mean, thank goodness, homes aren’t damaged, but I wonder how it works that way.
Anoniminous
Warmer temperatures means more moisture in the air means more energy for storms. “Where and If those storms hit is up to little butterflies flapping their little wings in India.” (Also Sprach Lorenz. (Edward not Konrad))
To ‘get’ what this implies you’d have to have followed developments in mathematics since 1873 which, of course, puts a crimper on the scientifically ignorami*: Conservatives, Glibertarians, God Botherers, & etc.
* Ignoramamooses?
Heliopause
All the anthropogenic effed-up weather is happening in conservative states, which is fine with this Washington State resident.
NotMax
White-nose syndrome spreading, bats in peril.
PurpleGirl
@Anoniminous: Did you know that a pair of mathematicians in England were working with the Lorenz Manifold and one partner decided the computer description reminded her of a crochet pattern and she crocheted a manifold.
from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtOX6Aeybl8
Dr Hinke Osinga and Professor Bernd Krauskopf have turned the famous Lorenz equations that describe the nature of chaotic systems into a beautiful real-life object, by crocheting computer-generated instructions. Together all the stitches define a complicated surface, called the Lorenz manifold.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
Soooo…..
wingnut harasses ‘leftist terrorist’; ‘leftist terrorist’ gets restraining order against wingnut; wingnut violates said order and incites other crazy wingers; ‘leftist terrorist’ complains to court about receiving death threats by wingnut’s supporters as a result of the wingnut violating said order; court charges wingnut with “Incitement”; wingnut is arrested and released; fundraising to “defend” wingnut commences.
Did I get it right?
General Stuck
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
LOL, I think so. I’ve been reading and reading wingnut sites today, trying to sort through the puke funneling of crazy, but for whatever reason, this wingnut “Walker” guy decided he was going to destroy the once lefty terrorist, for reasons unknown, but likely do to lefty terrrorist work on outing Diebold and other electronic voting problems.
It is murky after that, as to what happened, but then the Malkin/Stacey Mccain rage virus mob got involved, mostly because Kimberlin filed for a “Peace Order” to stop this Walker guy from blog stalking him. And then other right wing bloggers started making charges of threats and SWATTing and threats to them, from who they believed just had to be Kimberlin, why? cause he’s a lefty terrorist still, or something. And they don’t like him.
So they had a hearing today, and wingnut Walker, who is also a Yale Law graduate, went wingnutty on the judge and with no real evidence that Kimberlin had done anything other than exist, and be a former lefty terrorist, arrested the moron wingnut for “incitement, or contempt”, hard to say.
But here is a very good synopsis of the hearing by someone not insane, that lays out what happened in a cogent manner.
No one on the left is writing about this case, mostly, I suspect, because it’s insane. But I think important, to address the growing phenom.anon of blog based “swarming” from the right wing mostly, targeting people they don’t like in a vicious way that also brings out the crazy violent element making threats. It is a free speech issue, along the lines when speech becomes a malicious weapon, concentrated by the internet toward people who somebody thinks ‘deserves it’ for no current reason, as a political statement. And in this case, a judge drew a line on when it goes over the line.
Seems this Kimberlin guy learned the law while he was in prison, and caught the wingnuts with their dicks hanging out.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@General Stuck:
He kicked a wingnut in the balls, legally, and now the wingnut’s posse is out for blood. You’re right about being concerned with this ‘blogswarming’ going on by the right, especially in the way it’s being done to this poor guy. Anyone who has a following of crazy people on the internet has the power to put that crazy to ‘work’ for them in some vendetta against someone they are obsessing about without any cause. The right is reaping a bitter harvest because of the seeds of hate and intolerance that they have sown and nurtured.
Now they want to feed it to the rest of us, forcefully if needed.
Mary Jane Leach
From upstate NY, near Troy. Tree through my kitchen window, electrical wiring ripped off building, no electricity (all before the storm really started). And the bat in my basement that I thought was dead, that I put a container over (with holes just in case) has started to move. Wake me when it’s over. On the bright side, I live in an old church, and at least it wasn’t one of the stained glass windows broken.
Anoniminous
@PurpleGirl:
Vaguely. I don’t follow Chaos as closely as I used to 25 years ago. I’ve taken what I’ve needed for the stuff I’m interested in and working on and now pretty much off to other things.
(Most of which I can’t talk about as I’m NDA’ed up the wahzoo. :-)
Linnaeus
The way it’s looking here in Washington, summer won’t arrive until July and if this year is like last year, it won’t even get here then.
Susan S
I,m sorry but what is a “microburst”..Never heard the term in Seattle?
Mnemosyne
@Susan S:
A microburst is kind of similar to a tornado, except that the winds come straight down (or so says Wikipedia, anyway).
Yet another of those bizarre weather happenings that we can expect more and more of as global warming continues.