It looks like Lori Summers caught a funnel cloud on camera this morning in the Willamette Valley. She was travelling on French Prairie road between Brooks and Woodburn east of I-5 and saw it hanging out of the cloud.
So how do you know if it’s really a funnel cloud and not just a regular, but funny looking segment of fog/cloud? Always look for rotation. The actual “funnel” is the result of lowering pressure in the spinning column. That allows the moist air to condense into a spinning “cloud”. Of course we don’t all walk/drive around with camcorders, but we sure do get a lot more of these pictures recently with all the fancy new phones that can take good quality photos and video.
Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen
“A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL MOVE OVER THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY.. THE BIGGEST CHANGE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN INSTABILITY…FOR SHOWERS OVER THE CASCADES…MAY EVEN NEED TO ADD A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE CASCADES. WILL NEED TO WATCH THIS. TW”
Quite the storm in Pasco…
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=pdt&sid=KPSC&num=72
Anyone think there is a chance of some T-storms Sunday afternoon/evening? Looks like temps will be close to 80 and Mark has some showers in for Monday. I just wonder if anything could fire up before the cool down?
I would say a slight chance ya…there is a low that moves in off the coast, if it goes in to our south, we can get a SE flow over the area and off the Cascades.
Looks like the bloggers all decided to *Run Run Away* which is a song song song copyrighted by The Slades Slades Slades:
56.8F and cloudy cloudy cloudy and just looking at this weather makes me bored bored bored:
Nothing exciting weatherwise ever happens in little old Silverton and when it does nobody else knows or cares cares cares:
00Z MET MOS
Hmm, latest run is showing LOW OVC till 5pm at PDX tomorrow and only low 60′s for the high.
Gosh, I really hope this model is wrong.
62.8F and blah BLAH BLAH weather!
Any sun sun sun coming coming coming?
AHEM! How is the long range models looking?
Seems we kinda have gotten off track about OREGON weather and now are contiously talking about back east not that I don’t like their weather:
Their weather can be quite exciting but what about here?
Good afternoon.
Much cloudier than I expected today, but with the shortwave over Washington it isn’t surprising. Only 58.8 here… Looking forward to the nice stretch of 70+ temps. I still have not heard from my friend in Moore, Oklahoma hoping he’s just busy or what not. Tornado Watch issued for SW and W Oklahoma, but I suspect large hail biggest threats given steeper mid-level lapse rates. Tomorrow though might be another bad severe weather day….
This is the time of year that I start getting really jealous of people living in Eastern Washington. Low clouds don’t breach the Cascades leaving them crystal clear and warm.
Temperatures ranging from 73-80 over there today.
Meanwhile.. I am locked beneath this stratus layer with 57 degrees at 3pm… blah!!!
It’s not all paradise on the east side. In particular, The Dalles (where I grew up) is notorious for its wind during the warm season, which can make an otherwise pleasant spring day quite annoying. And the trouble is that just when it gets hot enough for wind to become a welcome event, the wind machine begins to shut down for the season. However there are still enough windy hot days most summers to arouse feelings of gratitude.
September is by far the best weather month in the East Gorge from the “average person”‘s perspective. Still 90% sunny but not too windy; lack of wind no longer guarantees a miserable scorcher (though some really hot days are still possible), and you start to feel that lovely contrast between crisp mornings and summery afternoons.
….57 today, friends……
Cloudy and 52.4°F in my neck of the woods.
However, some sunny weather in Barrow, Alaska:
http://ak.aoos.org/data/webcam/latest/ABCam.jpg
Near Norman, Oklahoma yesterday:
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com
Never mind, this embedded link didn’t stay linked to the funnel cloud video.
How’s the weather looking this week in short/long term models?
Maybe weak by a “sustained category”, but not by a “gusts” category. There were unofficial gusts of over 175 + on some exposed spots on the coast. I think “gusty” winds are more damaging to trees than a sustained wind. Get a tree swaying the right way and then get smacked by a big gust and the pressure on said tree will multiply..
Just my own opinion..
Ooops!! Wrong Post!
We know someone who lost their home today in the tornado that went through Seminole, OK. They’re uninjured but it looks like they may have taken a direct hit and their home is pretty much gone. Not too many details yet.
Sorry to hear about their house. I used to live in that part of the country and their was nothing fun about it when the warnings went off.
Oh no….
I hope they’re going to be okay. I heard there were as many as 5 deaths from yesterday’s storms back there. I’m really glad we don’t have to deal with that kind of weather here in the PNW. It’s fun to dream and wish for crazy weather from time to time, but when it comes right down to it we really are quite lucky in that regard.
We just have to worry about things like earthquakes and volcanoes.
….and tsunamis.
But I agree, I’ll take our clouds and drizzle any day over subzero temps, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the 90 degree/90% humidity
Our windstorms are hurricane force.
Weak hurricanes more like. Our strongest windstorm (Oct 12 1962) was the strength of a category 3 hurricance. So I’d rather take sun/clouds/light rain over all that other crazy stuff.
Maybe weak by a “sustained category”, but not by a “gusts” category. There were unofficial gusts of over 175 + on some exposed spots on the coast. I think “gusty” winds are more damaging to trees than a sustained wind. Get a tree swaying the right way and then get smacked by a big gust and the pressure on said tree will multiply..
Just my own opinion..
I have a friend who lives near Ponca City, OK and this is the account of the tornado damage her property suffered yesterday
“House is all still there but half our roof is gone, damage inside that half, shop is gone, all the trees were up rooted and branches and power lines were down and all our vehicles were hit in some way. think my truck was the luckiest. only lost windows and some scrapes.”
So I just went up into SE Kansas to check out a storm that had a warning on it. It had weakened by the time I got to it though, but I followed some chasers for awhile and it was pretty fun. Plus the weather wasn’t really actually dangerous, at one point it looked like there was a little rotation but it didn’t last long. Looks like the main action was down south. Though chasers have some pretty sweet vehicles!
How come the SPC stopped putting EF ratings in their tornado reports?
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html
I haven’t seen them rate tornadoes in months.
That one picture I took last November of the “funnel cloud” I saw, the clouds were rotating. There wasn’t enough time to catch video, as it was seen behind trees soon after the photo.
lol, i posted all that on the old topic…grr.
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c71692/media/image/201005/php6zENfubrad4.jpg
the tornado that went through henryetta
muxpux Says:
May 10, 2010 at 5:01 pm | Reply
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c71692/media/image/201005/phpJ3YN8QBrad2.jpg
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c71692/media/image/201005/phpEQx1QvBrad3.jpg
that storm along I-40 is huge!
muxpux Says:
May 10, 2010 at 5:08 pm
that first pic is of the storm along I-40 as it rolled through seminole.
Been pouring a lot the last 10 minutes or so! Could have sworn I heard thunder, did anyone hear anything?
Here’s a link to a station in Oklahoma – they have streaming video, which looks to be a helicoptor flying over storm damage.
http://www.kfor.com/news/livestreaming/
Impressive! Sure there will be some impressive tornado footage today from Oklahoma…
That is really cool. I saw a funnel years ago right before crossing the Independence bridge coming from the Salem hills. It was right over all the blue berry fields, almost directly over the road I was driving on. It was awesome.
Wow, what time was that?!? Freaky!
First!