Todays Weather where you live?

[Ken Gilliland]

Brace yourself Ken! I'll be praying everything will be okay!

While we're only about 25-30 mi from the beaches, we are protected by two small mountain ranges, so apart from a lot of rain, we should be okay. Also, we're use to our infamous Santa Ana winds (which gust 40-100+ mph here), so we'll just batten down the hatches. The reason for me even posting this here is because its so unexpected for our area and neighbors/friends had no idea its coming so I thought I'd alert the SoCal people that frequent this thread.

 

[JOdel]

It's an El Nino. A tropical storm is perfectly in character. We've had them off and on over the years, but they rarely make landfall.

I had to go downtown for a doctor appointment yesterday. First time I'd been outside this week. There were enormous flat-bottomed, puffy white clouds to the north. Maybe over the valley, maybe farther up towards the grapevine.

It would have been warm but reasonably comfortable indoors. Outdoors it was at the far edge of comfortable, and humid as all get out. Weather to melt in if you had to do anything strenuous.

 

[Alisa]

Stay safe!

 

[DanaTA]

We've had our share of 100 year storms in New England! Stay safe!

Dana

 

[Miss B]

I tell you, no matter where in the U.S. we live, the weather this summer has been very strange.

 

[Stezza]

we've had about ten 1 in 100 events in the past year and a couple of 1 in 1,000 year events to top them off....

never a dull moment in these climactic days of mayhem.... a saying here during a windy event is that it's strong enough to blow a brown dog off it's chain...
well, unbelievably on one such day you wouldn't believe it a brown dog was running down the street with the wind with a chain dangling behind it... I kid you not!
I'm just glad we don't have any volcanoes

 

[Alisa]

We have those, though the last to blow was Mt St Helens way back in 1980. We were almost 200 miles away and heard it blow.

 

[Miss B]

OK, well we had another storm last night, though different than the one we had on Sunday.

This time it didn't seem right overhead, but more like 1 or 2 blocks away, but very loud. It happened around 2:00am, and it started with pounding rain on the windows. The thunder didn't start right away, and when it did, it was more like a deep sound, rather than the high pitched thunder we had on Sunday. The storm, again, lasted about 1/2 hour though the thunder, and the pouring rain, didn't last continuously the whole time. As far as lightning goes, I only saw it twice, and it wasn't nearly as bright as last time, so I guess you could say this storm was much calmer than Sunday's.

 

[xyer0]

I tell you, no matter where in the U.S. we live, the weather this summer has been very strange.

geoengineeringwatch dot org

 

[DanaTA]

OK, it's getting scary, now!

Today (Friday) there was a tornado in Stoughton, MA. Another in Mansfield and No. Attleboro (sounds like that may have been the same one hitting both). Another in Weymouth. And an F2 in Johnston, RI! All in one day!

Dana

 

[JOdel]

Lovely. Sounds like we're going to be hammered from both coasts.

 

[Alisa]

Yikes, everyone please stay safe!

 

[Ken Gilliland]

The edge of Hillary (which still a Cat 1 and in northern Baja at last check) just arrived... raining pretty hard here (3/4" per hour). Being sandwiched between the Verdugo and San Gabriel mountains ranges we tend to get quite a bit more rain than Los Angeles proper. Starting a noon to late afternoon, there's something I've never seen before in our forecast... squalls. Don't you have to be a sea for those?

Added: Looking up the definition for a squall, it's an extremely heavy, but short, band of rain.

 

[Alisa]

You'd think so! Hope it's over soon!

 

[Miss B]

 

[Flint_Hawk]

Stay safe Ken & all!

 

[JOdel]

Here in inner city we have a lovely rainy Sunday. So far. No significant wind at ground level yet. But give it time...

 

[JOdel]

Well. What we were NOT expecting was an earthquake in the middle of it.
Quite a small one. But noticeable.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

we didn't feel it but got the emergency alert... it was 6km ese of Ojai

 

[JOdel]

Like I say it was not much of one. It went on shivering for a while afterwards, so it had been traveling for a while. I'd probably not have felt it as much if I'd been on the ground floor.