buckeye

29 minutes ago, Floydbuster said:

 

Looks like the action should weaken by central and eastern Ohio by 2-3am, thankfully. The most high quality stuff should be impacting Indiana currently and the next couple hours.

2am is 8 hours away.  Who cares what’s happening at 2am, we need to worry about what’s happening in 3 hrs(central Ohio).  Hard to imagine much weakening is going to happen in that time…probably the opposite.

12 hours ago, IWXwx said:

I'm eating KFC as I am reading this.

One other thing about kfc, they have the best damn cole slaw ever.   I don't usually like mayonnaise-based slaw, but theirs's is awesome.    I literally stopped there once for lunch, went thru the drive-thru and ordered 2 family-sized slaw tubs, (I was kinda embarrassed so I ordered 3 drinks so they wouldn't think it was all for me).    I ate both entire tubs.     Next day was brutal though....felt bad for my wife.

here we go again

1 hour ago, SolidIcewx said:

Hey now as a Michigander I love the basic style of the meal. Last summer I spent a few months in columbus and had raising canes every week. But now I heard there is one opening soon in Canton MI so I’m excited as hell lol

Lol....I get it.   My son-in-laws parents live up in extreme NW Ohio.   Every time they come down here they never miss a chance to go there.    I'm more of a KFC fan myself 

30 minutes ago, Stebo said:

I was going to stop at the Raising Cain's on US-20 on the way home, there was a line 100 deep out the door when I passed by.

I don't know what it is about that place.  I have one about 5 mins from me and I never go.   It's fcking chicken fingers with a dip that's basically ranch and ketchup mixed.

On 3/21/2024 at 5:19 PM, Ji said:

Super nice guy in person though lol. 

That's what I've heard.   His balls descend when he logs on and ascend when he logs off.

13 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

 

Looking forward to the next two total eclipse opportunities in 2044 (Montana/Canada) and 2045 (Western/Southern US).

 

 

You're not doing Egypt?   j/k, but that would be pretty damn cool too.

I know it's not in our sub but I don't ever recall seeing a day 6 30% threat....chasers must be drooling

Totally lucked out.    Blue sky with some wispy cirrus   Had 45 seconds of total where you could look without glasses.  It sounds obvious but it got much darker than I expected probably because I had only seen partial eclipses in the past and always expected those to be darker.  Crickets started chirping street lights came on and you could hear people cheering in the distance.   Bucket list checked without having to leave my yard.       

3 hours ago, King James said:

Enjoy all the occult rituals today boys

thanks,   one more sheep to tie up and was able to score a fresh chicken spleen this morning....   only snag is I've gained some weight since 2017 so my robe and hood is a little tight.

20 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said:

With razor thin margins like that you may want to reconsider. The exact borders of the eclipse path are hard to ascertain for sure. This article may interest you, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/03/30/why-your-total-solar-eclipse-map-is-suddenly-wrong/?sh=a1b40e43d7d4

Also here is the map by John Irwin with the slightly altered eclipse path parameters. Whether he's correct, who knows.
https://www.besselianelements.com/path-of-the-2024-april-8th-total-solar-eclips/

awesome info....thank you.

So according to my exact gps location, I'll have 100% totality for 48.4 seconds.      That's good enough for me.    Cooler in the back yard it is!

1200 feet inside line of totality.   Still debating whether to head a few miles nw or just get drunk in my backyard.

22 minutes ago, IWXwx said:

I'm in the same boat, but about 5 miles from totality. I'm staying put, the back yard is good enough for me. I've told everyone that will listen that it's gonna be cloudy anyway, just because that's the odds.

with my luck the damn thing will defy all laws of astro-physics and trend NW.   That's how we roll in central Ohio

5 hours ago, OHweather said:

Overall, severe weather risks that have a ceiling of a regional tornado outbreak but legitimate bust potential are a challenge to message and there's room to get better at it. 

Kind of damned if you do…damned if you don’t.    I thought ILN did a good job with balancing everything,  their discussions were very matter of fact and included the mention of what could impede the threat.

8 minutes ago, Floydbuster said:

I know this seems unlikely, but is there a chance that the moderate risk was issued out of pressure from the social media freakout and the overperformance of the March Western Ohio tornado event?

 In June of 1990 a flash flood from a thunderstorm killed 26 people in shadyside ohio.  The nws was ravaged for not having any kind of watch up.   For what seemed like the rest of that summer…every time storms were in the forecast they issued flood watches.   It was definitely cya.  Maybe a little of that today as well?

On 4/1/2024 at 7:35 PM, buckeye said:

So I'll have to see if my anecdotal theory holds.   I've always said the most hyped events around here tend to fall apart while the most significant events, (ie the one a couple weeks back) come out of nowhere.

Yep, it held 

8 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

Bust of a moderate for sure. Simply too many storms firing up on top of each other and too much rain this morning in OH/IN for severe north of Cincy

yea, it was frustrating.   When we got that clearing around 11:30 I thought it's game on.   Then that garbage rolled in around 2  and I think that was the nail in the coffin.   

One cool thing, the sky has been a show this evening.   Strange cloud formations, colors, and the most amazing rainbow I've ever seen.   I'll upload a pic when I get a chance.

11 minutes ago, OHweather said:

The stuff currently developing from central IN into KY (and anything that fires immediately ahead of it) will be “the show”. We’ll see what the show ends up being. Airmass recovery attempting to occur ahead of that activity but it’s a short window to do it. The low is deepening so wind fields will be extremely robust. We’ll find out quite a bit about if much will happen in the next few hours. 

yup... ingredients are there, let's see what gets baked

so far things seem discombobulated.    The blue skies here are now clouding up as some garden variety showers and thunderstorms get ready to move thru.    After that it looks like another period of clearing/drying and then we wait and see if things start growing out of the southern IL/w. KY  area.      Not super impressive yet.   

HRRR not exactly stellar.   Where is all the convection showing up on radar in sw IN?

35 minutes ago, Floydbuster said:

I'm trying to sift through wishcasters and forecasters on Twitter. Forecasters seem to think the moisture is lacking and the recovery time isn't as long as it could have been. Wishcasters seem to think it's going to be the 1974 Super Outbreak. Unfortunately, they're scaring the heck out of people.

 

Literally a PHD tries to say it could be sporadically nasty, and then we get people talking about 1974.

 

 

welcome to the fusion of social media and meterology.

My daughter, who has zero interest in weather sent me a text asking how worried she should be because it's all over social media that 'we're gonna have a bad tornado today'....  lol

clearing coming in from sw.    We'll see if it holds

3 minutes ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said:

Skies look to be clearing from Kentucky into Central Ohio

It'll be interesting to see what kind of clearing can make it here in the next couple of hours.   Still heavily overcast but noticed some breaks to the north and south earlier.   Looks like we still have a round of showers the next hour or so.   I would imagine in this setup we're not going to need several hours of blaring sun to get things rocking...even just a few breaks should help light the fuse.   

1 hour ago, King James said:

Ease up on the solar farms plz. Ugly ass things are popping up everywhere. 

amen!

that and those damn windmills too.    Poor birds, if they manage not to get sliced and diced, they have to hope they don't get fried in mid flight now.

5 minutes ago, TheWeatherPimp said:

Not sure I can ever remember in the course of two day 2 outlooks, areas going from 0% tornado risk to hatched 15% tornado risk. Pretty remarkable change. 

 

 

I was thinking the same thing.   Usually you see adjustments 25 or 50 miles this way or that way....  but that change is like an entirely different forecast.   

So I'll have to see if my anecdotal theory holds.   I've always said the most hyped events around here tend to fall apart while the most significant events, (ie the one a couple weeks back) come out of nowhere.