Weather Questions and Answers Thread

Okay, this is for the impending tornado season. Let's all put on our thinking caps, class! Now the difference between a watch and a warning is elementary. A watch means conditions are favorable for a thunderstorm, or a tornado, or any other weather euphemism of your choice. The cloud formations are also very important. A thunderstorm with an "anvil" shape on the top is a potent thunderstorm. Also, mammatus clouds do NOT mean a tornado is coming. This has been debunked by several scientific organizations.

To continue our lesson, let's look at other myths: Opening your windows will equalize pressure inside your house and allow the tornado to pass without doing much damage. WRONG! Opening the wrong windows will cause even more damage by letting in air, which will totally fuck up the nice paint job you wasted half your summer on. If there's a window that needs to be opened, let the tornado do it. It's perfectly capable. If any of you think the 'Red sky at night, sailor's delight...' etcetera is true, then you're perfectly right. The red sky at morning is the high pressure air moving away.

Let's look at some good weather items to keep handy.
PINE CONE: Simple, yes. Crude, yes. Reliable? Yes. Pine cones close up when wet weather comes. (Supposedly. I imagine the effect wears off after awhile, but pine cones are abundant.

BAROMETER: Shows you the pressure by a guage. Hang it outside, and watch the fun begin! The fancier ones also tell the time, temperature, and humidity.

WEATHERVANE: Yeah, the stupid things that retards put on their roofs. You can actually make a pretty festive one, or to make it simpler, and show a bit of patriotism, hang a flag on the front part of your house, preferably the part that sticks out and isn't blocked by anything. (For us, the garage housing would work great.)

TV/INTERNET/RADIO: WOOO!!! Entertainment and information in a tiny, electronic package! 'Nuff said.

SURGE PROTECTOR: Hook one of these babies up to anything that's worth money to you. Just because your house has a lighting rod doesn't mean your applianced can't get zapped. My great-grandma who lives in the middle of nowhere in western Kansas has an aluminum roof, and a lighting rod, and she was walking into the living room when a bolt hit, and sparks shot across the living room.

That's about it. If you have any other questions, feel free to drop them in this section, and I'll answer usually within 72 hours.

god help us .. sticky is a freaking weatherman

How do you know all that stuff Sticky?

I got a Tornado watch where I live and its all going to hell atm. I'm not kidding btw.

Edited by: TheDebonairNomad

Fitz720 wrote: How do you know all that stuff Sticky?

Interested in a young age. I was awed since I was about 5.

Ah sticky be a funny man after all

i swear ive been learning bout tornadoes and the like for the last 5 years in geography :o ah well best of luck wwith the paint job

i remember learning this stuff in 6th grade

forgot nearly everything by now.

no tornadoes where i am, but i'd love to see one xD

Well, I'd like to get to the questions now. All extemporaneous stuff WILL be deleted, as this is primarily a Q and A thread.

Sticky is gonna be one of those crazy people that chase tornadoes for a living ..

I'll be his partner.

Also if the sky has a greenish tint to it...get down... learned that the hard way in the F3 tornado that hit Lawreceville about six years ago.

Yeah, hatel, hammy-bob says the whole view outside goes green when a thunderstorm is about to form (which could possible turn into a tornado)

The only weather we have to worry about here is 100*F+ temperatures during the summer.

We got all kind of weird wether down here in Australia. One minute is a warm day, next its bucketting down like heaven spung a leak or something.

or other days itll go for a week of 30+ degrees non frikin stop!

i was reading this article and apparently that water spinning the other way in southern hemisphere is a lie and been proven wrong.

sticky is this teh tr00?

That is actually not true. Take a good look, and download some .gifs of toilets flushing and stuff. They really do flow the opposite direction.

Also, yes, the sky generally goes green during a supercell-spawned storm, because of a myriad of different factors inlcuding air pressure, wind, and what's inside the cloud.

Rofl .. what kind of sicko would want to see a toilet flush?! .. =p

Like, at the American Embessay here, they have a machine that makes it turn the otherway, so tanks feel at home.

lawl-z0rz. That's stupid.

Yet so hilarious.

So...does anyone have any WEATHER RELATED QUESTIONS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Southern California owns. All we get is rain. and heat.

Speaking of which, I think 16 people died from the heavy rain this season. Talk about darwinism at work