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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMASSIVE TORNDO OUTBREAK - IL, IA, WI...
So many are springing up that they aren't able to put up warnings fast enough!
Brenda
(2,077 posts)I have lived through two horrific, historic tornado outbreaks in my life so far: one in Ohio, one in the Deep South.
Hope people take the warnings seriously and prepare, follow the local weather news and live through it.
SheltieLover
(81,198 posts)Maninacan
(317 posts)I am right in the path east of Janesville WI. keeping an eye on it.
2naSalit
(103,260 posts)Either side of there. Was in Algonquin, IL when I was married decades ago and Madison, WI & Mt Horeb, WI when I got single afterward. I remember bad storm days like this but they might not have been this bad.
Stay Safe!
2naSalit
(103,260 posts)Take shelter!
Maninacan
(317 posts)Very close, took the pups down to the basement. A pine tree snapped and fell across the driveway.
Got it cleared with the battery chainsaw.
2naSalit
(103,260 posts)It was only that. Last time I was in the vicinity of a twister, I actually wasn't there but my vehicle was and though there was a lot of damage done to the buildings and many trees where it was parked, four tall trees laid down around it and didn't touch it. I did have to wait for the guys with the saws to cut them up so I could leave. Truly surreal.
Passages
(4,264 posts)Horrifying.
2naSalit
(103,260 posts)That this sort of thing may become more common with climate change.
Passages
(4,264 posts)Emile
(42,583 posts)Passages
(4,264 posts)canetoad
(20,816 posts)For everyone's safety.
2naSalit
(103,260 posts)Haven't seen tornado outbreaks like this since the mid 1970s. I used to live in that area in Wisconsin and Illinois.
This is really bad and is the third or fourth day this week that these kind of storms have been happening. Glad I went further east for my last move! We'll get some of the rain but the tornado stuff will not be coming this far east, at least not likely.
malaise
(296,840 posts)wnylib
(26,220 posts)for today in the Midwest when checking yesterday for any threatening weather in my region (eastern Great Lakes). There was a tornado warning Wednesday not far from me and we've had some bad thunderstorms here this past week so I've been checking weather to the West of us since westerly winds often bring storms this way.
Hope people stay safe. From what I read, It was expected to get really bad in the Midwest today.
NickB79
(20,386 posts)When the air gets too thin, the balloons pop and fall back to Earth with little parachutes mission complete.
Data from the balloons feeds into weather models that are the backbone of forecasts across the United States, whether theyre delivered by a local television broadcaster or on your iPhone.
But many of the release sites at least 10 in the continental United States have suspended or limited launches because of the Trump administrations cuts to the National Weather Service staff.
Expect a lot more "unforeseen" extreme weather events to occur, with much less warning.