WDRB reporter provides first-hand account of riding out tornado - WDRB 41 Louisville - News, Weather, Sports Community

Here is another video I found showing a reporter filming inside of a mini-mart in Louisville Kentucky. All I have to say is that theses folks are really lucky.

Please click on the link below to see the article and the video..

WDRB reporter provides first-hand account of riding out tornado - WDRB 41 Louisville - News, Weather, Sports Community

Hurricane Irene, Long Island NY

Here is a video I found from a group of storm chasers that I follow online.   This is a documentary of them filming the effects of Irene in Long Island NY, I think they did a really nice job of conveying the dangers of the flooding and their video shows a tree falling on wires.  The worst thing to do is to underestimate the danger of a storm, you really need to be prepared for something like this. 

For new readers, you can catch up with my earlier posts with photos regarding Irene and it's effects in our area here; http://climatedriver.blogspot.com/search?q=Irene

 

Billion Dollar Weather Disasters

Climate change is taking it's toll, every year the varying cycles or oscillations, whether it is "La Nina" or "El Nino" alternately causes floods, drought and or heightened storm activity.

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration or NOAA, has released data from years of it climate data.

Here is the first graph showing information from 1980 to the present.  (click image below to enlarge)

The next image shows number of significant events, notice that PA has 17-24 events. Looking at the previous graph you can see that the number of events has increased in the last 25 years.

Looking at this information, it would be wise not to ignore the possibility of a serious weather event.
This week alone, Scotland had category 5 hurricane force winds, we are talking of winds from 100 to 165 Miles per hour!     (Data from NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/compare.html  )


Now I would like to ask folks to take a pic of any local weather event and send them by email to us.  We would like to post the pic and give credit to our readers.  Send your weather pics  to: feedback@theweathervane.us

In the email please include the folowing;

• Your name (the photographer,)
• If you want us to post the picture with your name publicly (your permission) or anonymous
• The time and date of the weather event
• Basic location of the picture taken, (Intersection, town city, state)