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I love Storms
Ricci.Wright
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As far back as I can remember I have always loved storms, especially those with lots of thunder and lightning. We are having a bit of a blow today with rain and right now 30 mph gusts and I have a nice window side seat in my giant comfy office chair with a giant cup of good coffee and a wagu egg McMuffin. Just a few guns to ship and some checks to deposit so I have an easy day planed. Like the bumper sticker reads, "Life Is Good" but you gotta enjoy it cause you know it can change at any time. Do something nice for someone today.
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Do storms weigh less because they have "lightening"? (Typo, I hope.)
I enjoy them a lot more now that I no longer fly airplanes.
LIGHTNING
Thank you for your input. I have corrected my grievous mistake in my original post.
"...with a giant cup of good coffee and a wagu egg McMuffin."
I can't believe you fell for that pricing ($27.00 egg McMuffin with wagyu beef)! 😁😉
Now, the giant cup of finely brewed coffee is an excellent way to watch the approaching storm.
I was supposed to fly to Ohio but they are expecting a huge storm dropping 12 - 18 inches of snow by Wednesday! Not me, no sir. Too much frozen wet stuff and I hate sitting while they de-ice a plane... There isn't enough coffee in the whole world to get me to sit through that again!
Best.
I’ll take a light in’ storm over a winter storm. Two years ago we had a “winter storm on December 13. A week before actual winter.
You guys down south ever hear of "Thunder Snow?" 😮 YUP! It is real and we seem to get it around here at least twice or so during the cold winter months in Michigan. Lightning is brighter with a white background at night too!
Yep, had one Saturday night, . Got the possum yagoo broth with Ritz crackers and a Whistle orange soda and watched through the glass the rain, wind and lightning. Awesome is not he word.
I like storms too Ricci. We are having a little blow here but no lightening yet.
Ricci, see...Sam did it, also. I suspect it's an "auto complete" thing. Kinda like a silly censor in reverse.
I've seen that a few times here in NE Oregon. VERY impressive. Like bein' inside a flash cube.
I think our ancestors invented it.....except down here we call it "white lightning"
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Re: Thundersnow- used to work at a place that had 4 large AM antennas about 100 yards away on adjoining property. Times we could watch lightning go UP from them- with no noise. One night we had light snow, complete with thunder- was like being INSIDE a flash bulb.
Thundersnow is not uncommon high up in the Rockies here. It's just a winter T'storm with the deluge of rain turned to snow.
And it is indeed like being inside a flash bulb. With cannons going off.
How high up in the mountains are you?
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I live at 4850' MSL. Right at the base of a mountain that goes up that much again. When surface winds hit that, they go straight up and generate T'storms.
When I was a Ranger Instructor in N GA at Camp Merrill we would get some bad storms in the mountains. I remember being on a ridge moving along and it was raining with a thunder and lightning. We got the call to turn off radios put weapons in a pile away from the soldiers and get under cover/ponchos. So I get the Ranger students all squared away and I am sitting on my ruck with my poncho on and here comes the wind and hard rain with lots of lightning.
Well lightning hit a tree about 50 meters away. It was awesome. I was watching off that ridge and the low ground below was getting pounded with rain and lightning it was like the clouds were at my level. It was crazy and cool.
I have seen some real serious storms all over the world but a lightning storm out west, with fork-tail lightning is the most awesome followed by a haboob sand storm where a wall of sand is coming right at you. We were driving in the desert once when a haboob came up. We kept going but we couldn't see each others vehicles. One guy got separated and asked where we were over the radio. I sent him a grid coordinate of my location and he said he was 20 meters to my west, visibility was maybe 1 meter.
My experience around thundersnow has always been when the temps are on the warm side of freezing and the snow coming down is wet and heavy. Never seen it when temps are colder and the air is drier.
I remember a few years back in Virginia, early morning fog so thick you could drink it, and two of us leaving a hotel on the Blue Ridge Parkway on motorcycles. I could just see the headlights from my buddy's Road King just behind me and really nothing farther than maybe 20 yards in front of me. Suddenly came to a small clearing in the fog and there were several large mountain white tails standing in the on coming lane just a few feet from us. I was happy to get off that mountain that morning.
I was returning from a solo mission over Cambodia in my Cessna O-2. Massive T'storms all along the Vietnam Border, and what looked like about a mere 100 feet between two * monster storms. Low on fuel (meaning highly explosive vapors in all tanks) and fourteen live rockets under the wings. I just knew what would happen when I threaded my way between them.
KABOOM! Blue-white lightning used me as its "wire" between clouds.
Nothing blew up, nothing went off, and I made it home with little worse than ruined night vision and ringing ears.
DAMN!!!
Ricci, I have had my plane hit by lightning something like seven times. Twice in commercial jets. Never an issue, but there is danger if your fuel tanks are nearly empty because the vapors can be ignited. Military planes use a light foam-like sponge inside tanks that keeps flame from propagating, and commercial jets use a nitrogen flush to keep oxygen out of emptying tanks.
Tanks that simply take in outside air as they empty, however, can go kablooie with a spark.
I've also been "hit" by lightning twice on the ground - or at least close enough to get burned and shocked all to heck.
My wife says I'm an attractive guy. She's funny.
I believe there was a large commercial airliner which blew up because of an empty fuel tank which somehow sparked off.
I looked it up; TWA Flight 800.
My wife says I'm an attractive guy.
Conductive might be a better term.