Severe Weather Forecast, Live Updates: Destructive Hail, Tornadoes, Widespread Wind Damage Threaten
Source: weather.com
Saturday looks to be one of the more active days in a string of active severe weather days this month. Parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri hard hit by giant hail driven by 70- to 100-mph winds June 3 are facing a similar threat again today. Several other areas are also in play for thunderstorms well above severe-weather thresholds.
Friday was the 11th consecutive day with at least 100 reports of severe weather nationwide, according to data collected by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. Strong to severe storms moving into New York City created flight delays - some as long as four hours. Trees and wires were downed by 60-mph gusts in northern New Jersey.
A smattering of severe weather reports came in from the South and the Plains on Friday, as well, bringing the total to 102 severe weather reports as of 5:45 a.m. EDT Saturday. (NOAA's storm days start and end at 8 a.m. EDT.)
FULL story, updates, and video at link.
FULL title: Severe Weather Forecast, Live Updates: Destructive Hail, Tornadoes, Widespread Wind Damage Threaten Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri
Read more: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tracker-page
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Wouldn't be fun with all that. Stay safe
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The Koch brothers paid me to say that.
xocet
(3,870 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)you apparently don't have to deal with the pesky effects of climate change that the rest of us poor schmucks do. I don't get it. The impacts of climate change affect ALL of us ... and we are all less likely to have the lovely beach-front homes.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)On a thread by kpete in the General Discussions Forum.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025098179
Brat: "Rich" nations don't have to fear climate change."
Brat has called for slashing Social Security, Medicare, and education spending and says "rich" nations don't have to fear climate change.
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ladym55
(2,577 posts)He is making Louie Gohmert look sorta sane and well-informed. This is not a good thing.
I've read enough quotes from the Brat over the past few days to make me think he was dropped on his head once too often as a child. Unfortunately, that makes him a prime candidate for Tea Party Republicans.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)of global warming climate change.
On a thread by babylonsister in the General Discussion Forum.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025099085
First off all, the characterization of Cantors opponent, Dave Brat, as an outsider who sprung from the grassroots to slay Goliath is a reflection of the shallowness of the research conducted by the mainstream media. Thom Hartmann went deeper and discovered that Brat was on the radar of the billionaire Koch brothers long before he launched his allegedly underdog campaign. Koch-affiliated financiers endowed Randolph-Macon College with half a million dollars to seat the Ayn Rand disciple as a trickle-down economics professor. Then, when the campaign commenced, radio talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin took the baton and fervently promoted Brats candidacy. Ingraham and Levin are just a couple of the radio talkers who are sponsored by Koch front groups like Americans for Prosperity.
This brings us to the second point. The media repeatedly cast a spotlight on the campaign spending differential between Cantor and Brat. Cantor raised more than $5,000,000 compared to Brats $200,000. Many reporters latched onto the amusing anecdote that Cantor spent more on steak dinners than Brat spent in total. However, what they failed to take into consideration was the value of the airtime contributed by the likes of Ingraham, Levin, Beck, Limbaugh, Fox News, et al. It could cost a couple of hundred dollars for a thirty second spot on a high performing radio program. Extrapolate that to twenty or thirty minutes of direct advocacy by the the programs host every day for a month or two and you could easily have exceeded Cantors budget for broadcast advertising.
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So Dave Brat won a peculiar contest in Virginia where he had hidden support from billionaires and an opponent who was widely disliked. Then he disappears and refuses to speak to the voters he hopes will be his constituents. Its been three days and he hasnt held a post election press conference. And yet the press continues to misrepresent the realities that produced the results of this election. Its a state of affairs that proves that Cantor wasnt the only loser last week. The voters and others who rely on the media to provide useful information and analysis also lost. But they should be used to that by now.
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Great info!
Omaha Steve
(99,073 posts)The College World Series attendance was 23,625 at yesterday's night game. My good friend Jeff lucked out and stayed dry. The rain is pouring in metro Omaha now.
http://www.omaha.com/news/as-cws-fans-soaked-up-series-storms-loomed-over-omaha/article_73a8a4a2-f3d7-11e3-9a2c-0017a43b2370.html
Photos: Saturday's storms: http://odc.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=5335
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College World Series fans were able to dodge the rough weather Saturday in downtown Omaha, but the region wasn't spared altogether from the threat of severe weather.
Most of eastern Nebraska remains under a severe thunderstorm watch as storms continue to move across the state.
The National Weather Service issued the watch for a wide swath of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, including for Douglas, Sarpy and Pottawattamie Counties. The watch is in effect until 5 a.m.
The Weather Service in Hastings had not confirmed any tornadoes at midnight, but meteorologists were still working to put out preliminary reports.
Strong winds were reported in central Nebraska. The Hastings airport reported a 79 mph gust, and near Kearney the Fire Department reported 60 mph winds and several downed tree limbs, according to storm reports from the National Weather Service.
FULL story and updates at link.