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Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes are threatening a swath of the central United States from Iowa to parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, forecasters warned.
Chris Dolce and Jon Erdman, of weather.com, said the Midwest would be likely hit by storms and showers Saturday morning, but the “greatest concern for severe storms will be from the afternoon through evening.”
“While the primary severe threats look to be damaging straight-line winds and large hail, the degree of low-level wind shear and instability may spawn isolated tornadoes in these areas,” they added.
Weather.com said the storm system would continue moving eastward on Sunday.
“Scattered severe storms may flare again along the cold front with spotty damaging wind gusts and possibly a tornado from the southern Great Lakes southwestward to the Ohio Valley, lower-Mississippi Valley and southeastern Texas,” Dolce and Erdman added.
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the rain we need, the rest....not so much so...................
Thunderstorms in the Midwest? I'm shocked and astounded.
yep next thing ya know it will magically turn white....this pandemonium will amaze and astound many on here,
Mornin' Bill
Mornin' Scooter
You both are sure missing out on the Trpoical Depression that is blowing thru Barbados - however, I sure don't envy either of y'all - got my comfort food and comfort libations all prepped!
Gawd damned Republicans changing our weather all the time! Ohh dont you deny it either!
gm guys
note to the morons....kornfed was kiddin
The last time I was in a tropical depression was when I ran out of Bahama Mamas in Nassau.
well as mentioned previously, the bar is stocked with rum (and the rum is good any time of the year ala Harry Belafonte & Barefoot Man) and beer - ran out of wine last week.
The snowbirds start their influx late November, so a note to myself add deadbolt! LOL. Hell, if ya make it down this far, the beer will be cold....
Bill,
as from your comment of
I told you, the rum is good any time of year and always in stock at my house! Our son taught me the art of Bahama Mamas and I enjoy them quite often on a lazy Saturday afternoon! Thanks for reminding me! LOL
No. Actually, it's the Democrats trying to divert attention from Obama's piss poor record right before the election.
scales.....................Kornfed was kidding. You, on the other hand, are just an azzhole.
Hmm...
Here in Beijing the weather is (unusually) clear, the Moutai is flowing and, well, no complaints.
I do kinda like the storms in the midwest U.S. The tornados not so much. But the storms bring their own sort of mood that is strangely relaxing. Perhaps it's just me.
Did someone bring up politics? Are ass-monkeys running wild? Sheesh...
Central Kansas received 1 1/2" of rain early Saturday morning and right now the storm is moving east across the state.
All of the states mentioned in the "severe weather zone" need it ...
A gift from Mother nature..Just keep the extreme nasty stuff away.
Here in western NY, it is clear and 21 degrees at 9:00 AM.
Karl,
I'm in northern Minnesota......now you know how we feel :)
Hopefully, you're not in 'Frostbite Falls'..... ;)
I'm ion North Carolina and it is 69 here. Hate the cold.
Thats alright Karl, WNY weather is known to be fickle and very changeable. I grew up in WNY and became used to heavy snow one day, thawing to slush the next, refreezing the next and becoming absolutely balmy the next as the roads cleared. I will take Iowa weather any day, but Iowa does need the rain for next years crops.
I do miss bocces pizza and teds hot dogs though along with a good sandwich of beef on wick.
joejoe....................69 isn't cold.
Stoney.... I wish I were in Frostbite Falls, along with Bullwinkle and Rocky and the rest of the gang. Bullwinkle is my favorite, and I'm no youngster. I just turned 70.
I want to say it before someone else does, it's Obama's fault. Unless of course Romney gets elected, then it's his fault.
and the preceding comment is all Jim's fault..................
Good one Scooter!
I find it hard to find fault with someone who faults a fault finder.
I believe that PolitiFact would "Approve" your message :)
Wonder if Jim is from CA, there a a bunch of faults there - San Andreas being the primary fault! In that case, his faults are forgiven! hehe hehe
I hear that Nancy Pelosi is sponsoring a bill to rename the San Andreas Fault. The new name will be Bush's Fault.
Why does every message board turn political???? *sigh*
After the VP debate, are you sure that weather really isn't just a bunch of "malarky"?
Don't know american, but sure it's a bunch of "stuff"...
BEWARE America! This is God's punishment upon the Bible-belt for their perversion of His Holy words!!!! He hateth the hypocrite most of all!!!
Sunny and 65 in cent. GA
Well, I guess I can be part of the weather reporting too:
Here in Barbados it is 25, windy, raining and in the middle of the Tropical Depression (Depressing too because this is 2 weekends in a row!) blowing thru that usually strengthens into a TS or Hurricane - this one is expected to turn North and go up the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!
Oh yeah, the temp I gave you of 25 is correct - in Celsius! =77 Fahrenheit. However, the beer is chilled nicely!
.keep it up jack.... and i cant speak for bill here, but one day you may open your door and find a shivering Iowa snowbird on your front porch... drinkin your beer and rum...you been warned........lol........
Scooter
See Comment #1.7 with my answer and sarcastic humorous comments... about dem dam snobirds! Put de lime in de coconut and drink it all up....
Good morning Tramp,
When it comes to sitting on a porch drinking someone else's liquor, you can speak for me anytime. And the invitation extends here to the other half of the year when the flatlanders come up to escape the heat. Beer and Scotch are the order of the day, with Sazeracs thrown in for those who like rye whiskey.
Sounds like a plan Bill.
I just have to say that you guys are worth getting up for. Best laugh I have had in a while. Keep up the good work.
dont mind the heat....but hey...free booze......count me in.............
Here in central Oklahoma it's 70 degrees and insanely humid because, guess what, we're expecting severe weather..
Ah, weather.
The news that brings us all together.
cool.....PARTY AT ANNIES.......i'll bring the beer
It stormed here in Southeast Nebraska last night. Woke me up twice. Left me too tired to party, at the time. Party is on now.
well while your up might as well come to annies party
Won't be long before some climate change wacko comes on here and says this weather is extreme and attributable to climate change/global warming.
that's a given,its always a question of when not if... only surprised it hasn't happened yet...............
It's Saturday morning - "those" people have not been to Starbucks yet for their mocha grande cappucino something or other! (sarcastic humor alert!)
the lib alarm clock hasnt went off yet
Well I hear the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain, unless you are in Maine. As for this latest report some sage advice is worth noting. When the forest murmurs and the mountain roars, then close your windows and shut your doors. Keep close what's dear- follow news that's near,the sharper the blast, faster -tis past. Hope everyone will be safe and use sound judgment and not find themselves in trouble because they took the watch or warnings for granted.
Rex-1306908- It's all due to climate change/global waming! see, the sun's energy hits our blue planet, heating things up, most of the waves get deflected, but what does get absorbed by our atmosphere is captured by the oceans and reflected back.........then man came around and ......cattle give off gas and .........and the the earth goes through these cycles and ice ages so ........... samples taken from cores show that ..........so you see why.... there!
and now its here doing the job those lazy American clouds wouldn't do all summer...............
we are experiencing water actually FALLING FROM THE SKY !!!! ..along with flash's of light.....EEEEEKKKKK RUN AWAY RUN AWAY....... chicken little was right after all..............
Scooter here is a question to ponder:
Was Chicken Little a free range chicken or was he kept in a coop? I have a few roosters around my house that seem to start in quite early each morning - rain or shine!
well he was running around telling everybody so i would guess free range which is cool ....they taste better
Don't mess with lightning, and it won't give you any static. We always get a few fools up here every year who want to watch the storm clouds roll in from the top of a mountain that is the highest point for five miles in any direction. It gives the Alpine Rescue guys something to do.
Bill
It's good the Alpine Rescue guys stay in practice - even in a recovery op scraping up the "frazzled crispy critter looky-lues". Didn't Scooter said he had a tat of an 11 inch lightening bolt .... Wonder if he named it 'thor (with a lisp)
PS: many years ago, I used to be stationed in Denver area and enjoyed looking at the mountains as the sun rose and illuminated them in winter time.Since then, I have been to Denver area quite a few times and enjoy the scenery
Oh come ON! It's October! I thought this was over! Let's hope it doesn't get that bad and it stays NORTHWEST of my part of Missouri.
nope wont happen sorry besides it seems anyway that it always rains on Halloween
It's very unusal to see that type of severe weather formation this time of year at that latitude in the northern hemisphere. That looks like the intense extra tropical lows that form in mid-April through June. The surface of inner North America shouldn't be gaining so much energy through advection this far into fall.
oh the copious showers for all life!
hey, its tornado alley, what do you expect.
hey, daryl.... Wi, MN, MI are NOT part of tornado alley... espescially in mid October when everything is suppose to be starting to freeze.
denver bill2, LMAO. an oldie but goodie!
So is this the fault of past President Bush, or the fault of next President Romney?
C'mon libiots, i'm sure you all can come up with some half-assed explanation!
I will have a rack of ribs on the grill and a bottle of vodka here in Central Michigan. We don't stop for the weather. On another note, I just heard on the news that Hillary Clinton just sprouteddevil horns and is shooting fire from her mouth.
You are a flippin' genius
That Sucks! These storms never hit where you want them to.
WOW... tornado's when we should be getting frost.... it is warm and humid today in southern Wisconsin... last three summers have been hotter than hell... very little snow last winter... actually had to turn the heat off end of February.... yet, there are the weak of mind that cannot see the climate change that happens everyday... right under their ignorant noses...wow
After the extreme drought and very hot summer. It's not surprising. We need the rain.
You can't acuse Romney or Obama for this weather,, They are only guilty of Sh,it storms they produce
Being Libertarian I only think of weather in its basic sense and with that I have found the following statement always to be true. When the North wind blows, the South wind sucks. You need not to complicate your lives beyond that. Live free and prosper! ;)
I like how they don't mention Iowa at all when we are right in the middle of all of it. We are such an unrecognized state, and it makes me mad.
Who cares people It's just autumn, Autumn always has severe weather only thing I'm concerned about New York is getting severe weather that I'm probably having the round trip with, Anybody thinks New York is getting severe weather?
Have lived in KC all my life. It's not than unusual to get severe storms in the fall. We just don't get as many as we do in the spring.