Potential Severe Weather tomorrow, 3-22-22 (Update: Tornadoes on ground in metro area) (1 Viewer)

[gboudx]

the wind out here is something. I dont ever recall this sort of "pre-front" wind event like this now from last week, this week and im assuming again next week.

The wind was nuts here last night. My youngest son had a high school soccer playoff game last night, on a field north-south oriented. Wind was generally from the south. The wind was a definite factor. In the 1st half, my son's team was playing with the wind and scored 3 goals, then the other team played with the wind in the 2nd half, and they also scored 3 goals. 2 10 min extra time periods yielded no scoring and my son's team lost in a PK shootout to end their season and his soccer career.

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

Hush Jim,

 

[efil4stnias]

The wind was nuts here last night. My youngest son had a high school soccer playoff game last night, on a field north-south oriented. Wind was generally from the south. The wind was a definite factor. In the 1st half, my son's team was playing with the wind and scored 3 goals, then the other team played with the wind in the 2nd half, and they also scored 3 goals. 2 10 min extra time periods yielded no scoring and my son's team lost in a PK shootout to end their season and his soccer career.

!@$@#@!# pks.

THATS why i hate em. Keep playing dammit.


Yeah we have to be seeing 20-25 sustained right now with 40 gusts. It was same last week and again in Dec when there was that major EF4 in Kentucky. ( altho not as strong that day - but still brisk and constant wind )

 

[bonnjer]

Tornado warnings absolutely flying now in Western Louisiana.

 

[gboudx]

This was below in the tweet list. Insane.

 

[bclemms]

Tornado warnings absolutely flying now in Western Louisiana.

Yup. Tornado warning outbreak underway.

 

[brandon8283]

This was below in the tweet list. Insane.

fork THAT

 

[nolaspe]

The wind is going bonkers here in da Metrys as well and the power already flickered once...

 

[EGLSShin]

Yep, had a power flicker out in Old Metairie already, bruh.

 

[bclemms]

Wind is going to get worse. Doesn’t peak for a couple more hours.

 

[buzd]

 

[Doug B]

I thought this only happened in Kansas & Midwest. We have gone from hurricane alley to tornado alley. Fingers crossed no more damage tonight.

Right with you. Did this kind of stuff never, ever happen in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, etc.? In the N.O. metro, I mean?

In the 1980s, living in Metairie within easy walking distance to Lake Pontchartrain, I can remember seeing waterspouts over the lake now and then. Maybe three or four separate occasions.

Back then, I can't ever remember a tornado touching down in the Metairie-Kenner area. I'm sure some happened at some point back then in the built-up N.O. metro area ... just don't remember the news coverage about them.

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So what's going on in 2022? Different/better forecasting tech + social media = more bad forecasts? Global warming/loss of wetlands really IS changing local climate? Something else?

 

[DaveXA]

This was below in the tweet list. Insane.

Holy greezed lightning! Never seen anything quite like that before.

 

[Doug B]

I remember twice walking home from elementary school in knee-deep flood water. Freak storm, not predicted to flood like that, but it would happen and they'd try to release kids and get everyone home early somehow.

Us kids that walked everyday were just let go. Only had a few blocks to go, thankfully, and I knew the way intimately so had little danger of falling into a hole or something.

Can you imagine that happening today? One -- the parish or school would text out a closure message the night before, because that level of flood would almost certainly be forecast (to be fair, they miss some, too). And two -- no kid would be sent to walk out into that flood water.

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Point was ... just seems like a different weather world locally. I guess if you stick around long enough, sometimes even eternal, never-changing stuff can, indeed, change.