Thursday, October 18, 2007

Real weather threats

None of that mamby-pamby San Diego 1/8th of an inch crap. And sKILLy didn't write this either...

The National Weather Service is warning of the "moderate risk" of large hail and damaging thunderstorms this afternoon with wind gusts of up to 80 m.p.h.

Severe weather most likely will reappear in the area after 3 p.m., the weather service said in a hazardous weather outlook.

And isolated tornadoes could form in the mid- to late-afternoon hours, forecasters said.

A wind advisory is in effect until 7 p.m. South winds will gust to 45 m.p.h. in advance of the coming frontal system, but are expected to diminish to 30 m.p.h. afterward, the weather service said.

The severe weather is likely to shift into Northwest Indiana early this evening.The forecast follows this morning's heavy showers and thunderstorms that swept through the Chicago area, causing a number of traffic accidents that slowed commuters on expressways.

5 comments:

Fungster said...

As if to confirm, I can hear that annoying Weather Bug chirp all around the office. I should really ban that application...

k-mad said...

I can has hailstones?

Current conditchens: dee-lightful.

Smiff said...

Current Weather: Fair 68°F

Fungster said...

So far, nuttin. Haven't been outside since 1:30, but like K-Mad says, looks dee-lightful. Twas windy though...

Fungster said...

Spoke too soon - we just had a 5 min bout of high wind, sideways rain, hail going upwards, man, it looked like Armageddon out there! Then, just as fast as it came in, it left, and now there's two rainbows out over the lake. We're going to dive in and see if there are clients at the bottom of the rainbow...