What’s moving toward us right now is called a “derecho.” It’s a line of intense fast-moving windstorms that travel across great distances and blow the living daylights out of the Midwest about once a year, say freaked-out meteorologists nationwide.
Today “might be the worst severe weather outbreak for this part of the country for the year,” says Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground.
Remember last year’s historic derecho? It busted across the region and caused $1 billion-plus in damage from Chi-town to Washington, killing 13 people.
Weathermen in the know are saying that this year’s won’t be that bad, but they’re speculating about possible tornadoes and hurricane-force winds.
Cleveland might be just north of the “eye,” so to speak, but Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus can all expect some rarified apocalypse photo ops. The chance of severe weather is 45 times more likely than an ordinary June day in those cities.
Shit will hit the fan in Northeast Ohio later this afternoon.
Here’s a taste from last year’s havoc in West Virginia.
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2013.
Grab your blenders and drink, er hunker down – breaking weather reports all day.
People enjoy being scared and the corporate weather services know this…they are making millions off of “fear of weather”…notice how that are all saying “Millions of people are in the path of…whatever” (blizzards, tornado outbreaks, storms, etc.) Just ratchets up the fear factor when they can say “XX million Americans are in danger”…I think today’s figure is 64 million.
The farther east the threat, the higher the total. ABC started this trend, but now everybody’s jumping on the quantifying bandwagon…NBC and TWC (same outfit, actually) and all the other networks. They know that the sheeple will tune into all the wide-eyed airheads like Ginger Zee, who bought her credentials when she purchased a Cracker Jack box in Michigan.
Keep scaring people and crying wolf enough times, and when another Sandy hits, people won’t take anything seriously…and more of them will pay the price…some with their lives. I stick to the NWS…they don’t panic and they don’t try to scare people…they just give the weather straight. And they are a lot more accurate than all the other clowns…combined.
Oh no! It’s the end of the world snowstorm!!! Run for the hills! Wait, what? It was a light dusting? Oops.
Oh no! It’s the end of the world windstorm!!! Run for the hills! Wait, what? It was 5 minutes of lightning and thunder? Oops.
Not meteorologists, they are Weather-Guessers, as Dick Goddard terms it.