CoolHandMike

I bet you did! It'll be interesting to catch up on storm reports later

My mom just confirmed pea-sized hail in Oxford, near Lincoln University:

And just like that:

Nifty little downpour here. Lots of thunder. A little more is coming soon.

I think there's room for improvement there, then. Decades ago when I worked on a naval air station, a severe thunderstorm warning was treated very differently from an extreme wind event. While the two may share some similarities, they were not equal in terms of protocol. These days I'm just some Joe Schmoe behind a keyboard with a worried wife from SoCal and a mom who wants to know if she needs to put the horses in because of lightning. When something doesn't make sense to me, I complain about it on the internet. We do this for fun and I don't envy the job our mets actually have to perform. I guess I'll just take everything I learned here tonight and apply that going forward. Thanks for your service and your replies. Down to 37°F and I'm hearing pingers on the windows. An interesting day and night all around, regardless.

Yeah PECO is gonna have an interesting night. Been there and done that. Stay safe, everyone. https://www.peco.com/outages/experiencing-an-outage/outage-map

Doesn't the NWS have a warning specifically for extreme winds? Look, I realize this is getting semantical. A warning is a warning and as long as it serves to warn the public to a hazardous condition, I get it. I just don't think we should have been warned for thunderstorms when there weren't any. My weather radio went off, twice. Once before, and once after, telling me to seek shelter in an innermost room in my house because of severe thunderstorms. This wasn't that.

It certainly was entertaining for about 5 minutes. Granted, we have a pretty robust electrical grid up where I live. However; definitely not worthy of a "Severe Thunderstorm Warning!!! Go to the inner most room in your house and take cover now!" alert. Broadcasting the wrong message, even with the right intent, does not inspire confidence. That's what made me wonder if it was AI driven or not.

Our temps just dropped 20°F in ten minutes... Neat!

I really wish I could mount my little anemometer someplace away from houses. We still recorded 27mph here though, and that's something here in dense suburbia.

Interesting. Thunderstorms means convective, while convective does not always mean thunderstorms... I get why they have to word it that way at least because we're not exactly "general public" in here lol. Well it was an entertaining couple of minutes while it swept through at least. Power flickered but is still on.

Why am I being warned (weather radio and texts) for severe thunderstorms when there is literally no lightning? It's a squall line. Warn for that, if anything. It's been a weird weather day with the warnings. Are they all relying on AI too much or something? It's giving my mother fits.

.59" here. The wind never really kicked up, either. Currently 63°F

.34" from the first storm cell in like 5 minutes. Nice to see an early spring storm I guess.

Pouring now. Looked iffy before but now it's just looking like a gully-washer.