Just seen on the news over here that tornadoes are ripping across parts of the states, just hoping you fellows are keeping safe over there, looks pretty scary
Thanks for the concern and check-in!
Can't speak for the whole region affected, but NW Arkansas and SW Missouri Ozarks got a lot of wind and blown-in dust from out west. News says east got several tornadoes. Perhaps Mountain View, Arkansas area where they are holding the folk festival.
In my opinion, nothing out of the standard March weather pattern: very windy, then snows that blanket forlorn daffodils--a prelude to April and May severe storms--our spring is very violent. More so than Vivaldi composed in Four Seasons Concerto No. 1.
What is your March like?
Edited by - Flat_the_3rd_n7th on 03/15/2025 16:39:58
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Originally posted by Flat_the_3rd_n7thThanks for the concern and check-in!
Can't speak for the whole region affected, but NW Arkansas and SW Missouri Ozarks got a lot of wind and blown-in dust from out west. News says east got several tornadoes. Perhaps Mountain View, Arkansas area where they are holding the folk festival.
In my opinion, nothing out of the standard March weather pattern: very windy, then snows that blanket forlorn daffodils--a prelude to April and May severe storms--our spring is very violent. More so than Vivaldi composed in Four Seasons Concerto No. 1.
What is your March like?
This is worse than our standard March weather. This is a bad, bad, bad storm system that is having severe impacts on people across multiple southern states and will last until midday tomorrow (Sunday) at least.
Twenty-six people have died so far from this storm. This is just horrible.
Edited by - MikeVB on 03/15/2025 16:54:19
Yeah, you all in the South got it pretty bad, and don't usually get that sort of thing, right?
In Iowa, basically center of the country for those across the ocean, we get tornadoes often enough. This latest batch missed but we had high winds with thunderstorms and the winds have lingered.
I hope those affected recover quickly.
Edited by - ChickenMan on 03/15/2025 18:37:26
Our March is cold, but then again its cold nearly all year, if it gets to 24 degrees in summer thwy warn people to try to keep cool.
Hope they are ok at the festival, that would be a real s...t show, I thought it must be bad because it made our main news over here which doesnt happen that often.
Really sorry for the deaths that have happened, didnt know about that, and also for those whos homes have been destroyed, dont know how they will get insurance in the future. In parts of the UK we have fairly regular floods, and insurers charge ridiculous premiums,. But its the thought of having my own home destroyed which gets me, when you see interviews with people who have basically lost everything
I lost one greenhouse, and panels off of another. Steel barrels blown over.
Years passed we had a chicken coop blow over the top of a two story steel building. One either has to overbuild stuff, or build stuff that's easy to replace.
I suppose there's a reason why I'm surrounded by 300 wind turbines.
Edited by - farmerjones on 03/15/2025 19:01:42
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Originally posted by ChickenManYeah, you all in the South got it pretty bad, and don't usually get that sort of thing, right?
In Iowa, basically center of the country for those across the ocean, we get tornadoes often enough. This latest batch missed but we had high winds with thunderstorms and the winds have lingered.
I hope those affected recover quickly.
We've been getting more outbreaks and more severe tornadoes the last 25 years or so. I read an article recently that said the traditional tornado alley has migrated east and south over the last few decades.
Update: At least 34 people dead from this storm system. Over 40 tornadoes in 8 states.
I agree the tornado alley pathway has changed considerably. Kentucky never used to be a target of many tornadoes...in recent years there have been a ton of very violent tornadoes across this state. Same with violent flash flooding that destroys everything and kills. We've always been prone to flooding, but now it takes down hillsides and structures and really devastates communities. Weather patterns, jet streams and such are off course and all that drill baby drill stuff ain't gonna help. It's well beyond time to try to work with nature instead of against it.
Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 03/16/2025 05:29:05
There has definitely been a change over the last couple decades. Until 2012, the only tornado I'd actually seen was when I was in the army at Ft Sill, OK, in 1985. Then I had a near miss in south MS in 2012, a direct hit in 2017 (an EF-3 disassembled a firehouse from around me), another in 2021 (hid under an overpass as an EF-4 rocked my world), then yesterday watched two pass my house within 30 minutes, the first one killing a neighbor a couple miles away.
You midwestern folks can take these things back. We've already got our hurricanes to deal with!
We had a warning here in PA all day and night. Just a bad storm in the end but still...
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