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Minnesotans Arguing About the Weather III: Storm's a comin'

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They just issued a tornado warning for Chicago proper.

On top of that, they just issued a severe thunderstorm warning with straightline wind advisories of 80 mph and quarter-size hail. Again, in the city proper.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
They just issued a tornado warning for Chicago proper.
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I'm surprised no really big city has ever been hit. Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and St. Louis are all at risk if the maps are right. Gotta figure there'd have been one triple 6 rolled in 150 years.

Edit: looks like St. Louis and Chicago were each hit by an F3 in the 1870s. F3s suck but they aint F5s.
 
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Trees down everywhere in Central Iowa. I'm guessing we're gonna be out of power for a couple days. Even my cell phone internet just started working again after being down all day.
 
There are dozens of trees down throughout the neighborhood. Two in my yard... Thankfully it seems that a crunched gutter and a decent amount of cleanup work are all that came of this....
 
Kepler said:
I'm surprised no really big city has ever been hit. Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and St. Louis are all at risk if the maps are right. Gotta figure there'd have been one triple 6 rolled in 150 years.

Edit: looks like St. Louis and Chicago were each hit by an F3 in the 1870s. F3s suck but they aint F5s.
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Heat island. I've watch so many severe storms roll in from the west and completely dissipate by the time they get to GDO. THough, a while back, a friend's house in Minneapolis was destroyed by a tornado. They wrote a book about the rebuilding effort. All around good people. Side note, her recipes are great too.

Anecdotally I feel like the worst storms we get come from the southwest or northwest. A few weeks ago we had a bizarro cell pop up over GDO and dump like 4" of rain in less than an hour. I saved the satellite because it basically just "bloomed" and didn't move. Looked a lot like a huge fire from satellite. I watched white caps form in the gutters and through my back yard.
 
RaceBoarder said:
There are dozens of trees down throughout the neighborhood. Two in my yard... Thankfully it seems that a crunched gutter and a decent amount of cleanup work are all that came of this....
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unofan said:
Trees down everywhere in Central Iowa. I'm guessing we're gonna be out of power for a couple days. Even my cell phone internet just started working again after being down all day.
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Oof... glad you're both ok. SOunds like the last 24 have been awful for the midwest.


https://twitter.com/MPRweather/status/1292704707882954752?s=20
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Holy ****. I've never heard of this before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August...idwest_derecho
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This is fine.

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I'm pretty sure craziness like this is where our god myths came from.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Heat island. I've watch so many severe storms roll in from the west and completely dissipate by the time they get to GDO. THough, a while back, a friend's house in Minneapolis was destroyed by a tornado. They wrote a book about the rebuilding effort. All around good people. Side note, her recipes are great too.
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Every break room in two office buildings where I'm located (during non-COVID times) has a 4'x15'x6" table built using wood taken from trees that fell during that storm. At least one of the tables was made using a single piece of wood.
 
I think every tree is down in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The ImOn Ice arena, where the Cedar Rapids Roughriders of the USHL play, lost part of a wall and part of its roof.
 
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God d—ned Oakdale.
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Oh right, I think that's been mentioned before. A sort of downriver backwater, right? Did I do that right? Or is "downriver" Detroit? I really have trouble telling flyover cities apart.

I have been to Omaha, though. And Detroit, come to think of it. The reminded me of the Binghamton Greyhound depot.
 
It has been hot enough here since at least March that we haven't run the A/C at least partially during a single day more than 2-3 times. June was uncharacteristically dry here as was most of June, but the rains have finally come but the typicaly resulting drop in temps haven't been as consistent and therefore the A/C is still getting too much action for my liking. We'll see if the expected average highs of 30-32C from here until January ever materialize with or without the rain, which normally dries up by November. Ugh.
 
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Oh right, I think that's been mentioned before. A sort of downriver backwater, right? Did I do that right? Or is "downriver" Detroit? I really have trouble telling flyover cities apart.

I have been to Omaha, though. And Detroit, come to think of it. The reminded me of the Binghamton Greyhound depot.
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Oakdale is a suburb of St. Paul, only about 3 miles from the city limits.
 
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