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Here in Maine we get some fucked up weather,( i.e. Hurricanes). What are your most weird, scary, zany, etc, weather experiences?
I'll start it off: I was once in the middle of a huge ass thunderstorm when a huge microburst sent lake water up into a big spiral. We later found fish on the lawn. Discuss.
I was backpacking a few weeks ago and right as I was about to fall asleep, lightning explodes. It struck like 50 yards away from us. We were on a hill that night too, so some of my friends got washed away.
Well right now it is 100 degrees outside and it isn't even 2 pm. Still getting hotter and the forecast is for 106. I know it is July but this is the Willamette valley WTF.
When I was on a plane during a lightning storm, before we took off we could see it crashing on the horizon and then in the air we could see bolts flash down hundreds of feet from us.
I dont remember this happening but when I was a young child in southern nh we got snow in late May which wouldve got me hard as a diamond in an ice storm if it had happened when I was older.
Hurricane Irene was pretty gnarly here in Vermont. My hometown basically became an island. All the roads in or out of town were either completely washed out or underwater. Lots of businesses and homes got swallowed up. Hurricane Sandy followed up a year later. Definitely the biggest one-two punch Vermont has gotten in a very long time.
The only time I've seen the northern lights over VT it was incredible. It was full on, like a dense ocean of light in the sky, in varying colors. Pictures will never do the northern lights even a fraction of justice. It was kinda mind blowing...
Charlie*Hurricane Irene was pretty gnarly here in Vermont. My hometown basically became an island. All the roads in or out of town were either completely washed out or underwater. Lots of businesses and homes got swallowed up. Hurricane Sandy followed up a year later. Definitely the biggest one-two punch Vermont has gotten in a very long time.
The only time I've seen the northern lights over VT it was incredible. It was full on, like a dense ocean of light in the sky, in varying colors. Pictures will never do the northern lights even a fraction of justice. It was kinda mind blowing...
I forgot about the hurricane, everytime I go to Killington on the twisty backroads along the river I still see a ton of damage.
Another experience for me was on mothersday about 6-7 years ago with a massive flood and on my road, which is dirt there is a river that goes under the road and somehow there was enough damage that the road collapsed above where the water went through the corrugated pipe 4 feet under the dirt.
Charlie*The only time I've seen the northern lights over VT it was incredible. It was full on, like a dense ocean of light in the sky, in varying colors. Pictures will never do the northern lights even a fraction of justice. It was kinda mind blowing...
Any tips on good places to spot the northern lights on the East Coast?
watched a stage collapse at a festival from a microburst.
also the Ice Storm. Was the best 3 weeks off school I remember. We had so much fun. skating on the driveway, listening to trees collapse in the forest, not having to go to school.
another cool one was in September being up at Spray Lakes in the mountains near Calgary and it being +20's C and sunny and short/tee weather then driving down back to Calgary and by the time we got through town it was like -5 and a blizzard. Fucking prairies.
ck0belskiAny tips on good places to spot the northern lights on the East Coast?
Anywhere dark (really dark).
We had an F-1 tornado go through our hay field a couple years back. It picked up some dirt from a near by field and was really black which made it look scary AF. We also almost got stranded on the side of the road in a blizzard in southern MN on are way back from Jackson. We ended up somehow making it to a truck stop where we ended up sleeping in the car inside the car wash. That was probably the coldest I have ever been.
THEDIRTYBUBBLEWe were on a hill that night too, so some of my friends got washed away.
Elaborate!
My first time driving cross country, we got stuck in a gnarly storm outside of Omaha, Nebraska. It was raining so hard I couldn't see ten feet in front of me. I was driving 10 mph on the highway, hazards on - it was that bad. Then it started hailing. I had a Thule on my car covering the right half, but the left half of the roof and the hood were exposed and now have a bunch of little dents. Then it was over. Whole thing took about 10 minutes start to finish.
Got a couple others - hurricane weather at Rhode Island beaches, driving down the I80 pass in CA in a blizzard with no snow tires...etc. Weather is fucking crazy.
In 2004 one little storm that went over my area dropped 8.5 inches of rain in a half hour. There was water flowing everywhere. That was the highest I have ever seen the lake I live on. The people who live down stream of the dam thought it broke. The little hamlet off the Pine kill Creek was put into a state of emergency. Houses and cars were destroyed in this one isolated area.
We were playing a baseball game i got immediately canceled when a storm rolled in, within 2 minutes of everyone leaving the field a lightning bolt struck straight-away center, it would've hit the center fielder if he was playing out there.
the earthquake a couple years ago!! I was near a garage so I didn't feel anything since I was outside. I heard everything in the garage start rattling and I ran into the house to make sure everyone was okay and felt the house shaking. we all ran outside and everyone ran out into the street and we finally found out it was an earthquake lol experience I will never forget
ck0belskiAny tips on good places to spot the northern lights on the East Coast?
There are websites dedicated to tracking solar activity that predict auroras but they tend to be more optimistic than realistic...at least here on the east coast. The reality is that its just super rare to get a decent aurora this far south.
The good news is we currently are at solar maximum (when the sun is most active, lots of sunspots and highest likelihood for a solar flare) which is an ideal time to expect to see the northern lights. Apparently back in 1859, we were hit with a solar flare (during solar maximum) that produced auroras that could be seen as far south as Hawaii. Though if that happened today I'm pretty sure it would fuck up our power grid, and fry a bunch of technology and we'd be screwed.
on my flight down to Chile for a summer ski trip (opposite seasons..), i found myself looking out the window to see some gnarly lightning storms in the distance. it was night time so i basically got this epic lightning storm show to myself while everyone slept
Nothing too crazy for me. Once when I was a kid out on my dad's boat a good sized tornado/water spout formed on the water maybe a mile or so away from us. It was more cool than scary but we got out of dodge.
Also it's kind of strange seeing it "snowing" ash when wild fires are nearby, I've seen that a few times
almost got hit by lightning with my cousin once when we were like 10 because we thought because hockey pucks were rubber we could run around in the middle of a super low thunderstorm.
Lightning hit a car like 20 feet away from us and we got scared and went inside.
robbinJAHoodthe earthquake a couple years ago!! I was near a garage so I didn't feel anything since I was outside. I heard everything in the garage start rattling and I ran into the house to make sure everyone was okay and felt the house shaking. we all ran outside and everyone ran out into the street and we finally found out it was an earthquake lol experience I will never forget
I slept through an earthquake like 4 summers ago /claim
Up on hood this winter with some friends and it was pretty clear and then a really thick cloud rolled in and visibility was like 20 ft max. You couldn't see any of the bumps on the snow and you couldn't tell where the horizon was. I skied lift tower to lift tower so I wouldn't get lost. Some of my friends tried to get from the top of mile to the top of the park lift (normally pretty simple), and they traversed too far and went down too far and by the time they realized that they went way too far they basically just decided to ski down to govy instead.
I'm convinced shitty weather follows me wherever I go
live 21 years in toronto with shitty old winters with minimal snowfall, scorching summers with no rain; move to BC to finally live the good weather life, no snow all winter, scorching summer with no rain.
to everyone on the west coast, I'm sorry. I ruined the weather for everyone
Some gnarly cloud to ground lightening popping off into my neighbourhood right now. I was down in our half basement, and heard this taser like noise and seen some static sparking on my window then this monster explosion noise.
We also get some good Tornados going on here in Manitoba. This went down on Monday, about 50 minutes from where I live.
Winnipeg Beach also had a really cool waterspout a few weeks ago.
OregonDeadWell right now it is 100 degrees outside and it isn't even 2 pm. Still getting hotter and the forecast is for 106. I know it is July but this is the Willamette valley WTF.
I just got back from San Diego yesterday and this weather is already killing me.
A massive thunderstorm knocked out the power in most of the town on my birthday. The next day was one of the hottest days in years. 95-98℉ with 90% humidity. Still didn't have air conditioning, couldn't shower, stores were closed. That shit lasted for like 3 days.