SharonA

TOG now - 498 WFUS54 KJAN 292133 TORJAN MSC019-097-105-155-292230- /O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0084.221129T2133Z-221129T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Tornado Warning National Weather Service Jackson MS 333 PM CST Tue Nov 29 2022 The National Weather Service in Jackson has issued a * Tornado Warning for... Northern Choctaw County in central Mississippi... Northwestern Oktibbeha County in northeastern Mississippi... Webster County in north central Mississippi... Southeastern Montgomery County in north central Mississippi... * Until 430 PM CST. * At 332 PM CST, a confirmed tornado was located near Poplar Creek, or 12 miles southeast of Winona, moving northeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...Damaging tornado and tennis ball size hail. SOURCE...Weather spotters confirmed tornado. IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. * The tornado will be near... Eupora around 400 PM CST. Sherwood and Reform around 405 PM CST. Maben, Mathiston and Clarkson around 410 PM CST. Cumberland around 415 PM CST. Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Mantee and Walthall.

Lots of little algo-flags being triggered along the leading edge, but nothing kicking in hard yet other than storm. Hail 2 days before December is still generally not welcomed by the people underneath it.

I'm keeping an eye on this, some of the activity is/will be impacting the NW AL area where I've got connections. But, since the rest of y'all have tons more actual meteorological knowledge than I do, I'm mostly just a lurker on these threads. As are several coworkers and friends whom I direct to this site for information to supplement their watching more official sources. Unfortunately this lack of activity it gets taken for "lack of interest by the SouthEastern group", but we're watching. Cells in NW AL have been showing hints of rotation but nothing seems to stick around enough (yet) to merit a warning.

Temp on the raised back deck is 97F, after 95F in the last two days. I suspect it may be a bit high. Popping a probe into the soil of the poor wilting deck plants showed temps at the roots from 91-115F. The ones in dark-colored pots with no mulch are really unhappy with their life right now. All of the soil temps below 95F were in pots that were either white colored, heavily mulched, or had not been in the blasting sun until a few minutes prior. I've been using a chopped/shredded coir for mulch, which ends up being a mottled brown-red after it dries out. Black-Eyed-Susan vine (Thunbergia alata) is just loving this heat. It wants lots of water, but if it's kept watered, it will climb over everything at 2+ feet of growth per week. There was a small popup storm nearby that gave us some great thunder and gusty breezes - but the breezes were hot. Not a hint of cooling moisture. Harumph. If you're not going to give us rain relief you could at least give us outflow relief.

Hey @phil882Where is "here"? Not Doral, Florida if you're getting snow You'd mentioned Five Forks near 85, is that Five Forks in Lilburn Georgia or one of the other Five Forks that comes up on a websearch?

Ooooops. Life got Super Busy and I forgot about this thread. Also didn't have much time for the garden. My home office, where I work full-time, overlooks part of the back deck that is full of planters. One is 130qt capacity and gets a dozen blue hyacinth and scarlet runner beans clambering up a wire trellis to make a living wall. It was a huge success - again - and provided tons of entertainment. I had picked up some Coral Sage (S. coccinea, an Iowa-sourced pink version of the Georgia native Scarlet Sage) and had a 90qt planter with some of that, plus several pots. It took off and was a huge hit with the hummingbirds and bees. Also with the Jojo spiders, which took over this year. I had zero native garden-orb spiders, just Jojos everywhere. The mild fall and weird winter left a lot of plants confused. On Christmas Day I still had three different Salvia still with flowers, including Pineapple Sage which is not noted for surviving Zone7 - last summer was the first time I've had it successfully overwinter outside. Thunbergia alata (Black-Eyed-Susan Vine) still had a flower and several buds. One Gerber daisy that the deer had somehow missed, and a couple of marigold flowers completed the out-of-season blooming experience. The owner here hired a yard guy for the front yard, and the wood mulch he put around the trees sprouted up a huge colony of stinkhorn. The bearded iris had a dozen bugs killed by the last freeze. I hope that wasn't this spring's allotment coming in early.

Still light rain w/some sleet mixed in. I'm not seeing any flakes now. S Forsyth County/South Cumming/far-north-Alpharetta

Rain started ~15 minutes ago (south Forsyth County/Cumming), some flakes but mostly rain and here and there some sleet.

Got a late start to the season yet again, mitigated in part by lots of stuff coming back. Since this is a rental with severe HOA restrictions on what's visible from the street, we're limited to what can be grown in the itty-bitty backyard that's 75% deck and 25% deer, with a couple of small terrace-retaining-wall spots, one of which is in afternoon scorcher full sun and the other in "gets a little slice of morning" sun. The morning-sun plot is right up against the deck and the drippage aka "water puddles here forever" spot near the faucet. It is home to the happiest clustered mountain mint the world has ever seen. Last year I put in a 4" stem cutting that had just started to root, and ended up the season with a 3x4 shrub that was THE party place for every pollinator around. It died back, I pruned it hard, and it's come back across a 2'x2' patch, is already a foot tall and ready to rumble. Thankfully it's a Georgia native so I'm not too stressed if it gets out of the terrace area. Pineapple sage overwintered despite zero protection from the cold. I didn't even try to overwinter it, but the house/microclime-bubble/genetics/SOMETHING protected it enough during the hard freezes. Fingers crossed that this year it will bloom BEFORE the hummingbirds head south for winter. It's a beautiful shrub with huge gorgeous sprays of flowers, with blooming triggered by day shortening. Maybe starting out with a large established root system will prompt it to bloom earlier rather than work that leaf growth? Please? This year the container obstacle course outside the door and along the walk is already established ... sedums, hyacinths, Stokesia, catmint, fuschia, Sciabosa, black-and-blue sage & another pineapple sage (this one overwintered indoors and it never went dormant), all came back and are joined by echinacea, dragon's tail radish, daffodils, dwarf & full-size sweet peas, nasturtiums, native hibiscus, red hot poker, canary creeper, black-eyed susan vine, catnip, indian pinks, and half a dozen others. The passionflowers looks like they'll come back again, despite a couple still being in their original little 1-gallon pot and only one of them being Z7 hardy. The sweet peas have been a nightmare of dampoff and slow-to-grow, and the nasturtiums are leggy as all get-out. My plan had been to have both of these in bloom for when the hummingbirds returned from migration, but they're weeks away. Inside the seed start mat is packed full and the block tray has literally A-to-Z: alyssum, bachelor buttons, basil ... zinnia. This weekend is starting a few dozen more of other flowers,and uppotting the coral honeysuckle I picked up at the Chattahootchie Nature Center's native plant sale yesterday. Plan is for some friends to take extras off my hands, and whatever they don't want gets hauled over to the community gardens and donated. I ended up 2020 with gobs of excess seed. This year's goal is getting rid of it.

Betcha they got that phrasing from some article that compared the winds of a tornado to hurricane. Although I wouldn't put it past some outlet or person to come up with their own set of ratings and write as if it was already known and accepted in hopes of getting their wording adopted.

That house was built in 2003, if you're curious about timeframe for construction standards. The houses on that road, and adjacent culdesacs in damage videos, are all from about that timeframe and a straight line to the school. The houses on that side of the road are cut into a hill with lots of trees left for backyards. I'm pretty familiar with that area. It's been a bummer of a day seeing chewed-up familiar places in the damage videos being posted.

Lots of timber and farmland in Franklin but Newnan and points east are Atlanta's outlying bedroom communities and suburbs. Not good at all.

30 seconds of pea-to-dime hail in south Cumming/south Forsyth county, then torrential rain. 5 minutes later it's no longer torrential, just steady. No more hail, thankfully. I'm out of space for protecting any more of the container and hardening-off plants.

Glad to be getting nice soaking rains in spring, but we could do without the tornados, OK? After missing the first couple of months of the pre-last-date-of-average-frost seed starts period, I'm playing catchup. The garden centers are being stripped bare of seeds that normally languish until they go on 75%-off in October to be snatched up by people willing to risk they won't be viable for spring 2021. And I'm getting the usual frustrations: Salvia coccinea at $1 for a ten-year-supply of seeds is popping up at near-100% germination, meanwhile 30-some Scarlet Runner Beans are *zero* .. suspecting both bean packets (from different suppliers, but same store of purchase) got left out in a seriously-freezing-cold night or something grrrr. Of course, it's the Scarlet Runners that can't be found at any local store and the online suppliers have 2-6 week delays because they're overloaded.

Last night around midnight it had tapered off here (Freeport) ... now it's snowing again. Not heavily, but at about the same clip as the early stages yesterday morning. Hard to guesttimate the snowfall considering the high winds we had for a bunch of it. Lots of scouring of areas then huge drifts at the edges.