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Tue, 20 May 2008 16:47:12 GMT 2008-05-20T16:47:12Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=888451 My husband took some pictures of something he saw moving in the sky over Larned August 5, 2012.  Does anyone have any idea what this could be?  Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:07:10 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=888451 smileyface 2012-08-13T04:07:10Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=876371 Is there a way to view which storm shots were shown on the news? Thanks!  Thu, 17 May 2012 12:57:13 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=876371 ColesGal 2012-05-17T12:57:13Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=870813 http://youtu.be/SWti72uwvNI  Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:11:53 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=870813 eazy_37 2012-04-16T04:11:53Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=829393 I could have sworn that I heard Cindy say on the news the other day that we could upload photos from our phones straight to the storm team 12 app and send them in that way. But I can't for the life of me see a way to do it with the app. Am I mistaken about this or is it possible? If so, please explain how to do it. Thanks, Linda Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:55:05 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=829393 Grinandbearit 2012-02-21T19:55:05Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=673207 Just thought I would share this with everyone! I took this picture last year and just saw it again, and thought everyone would like it! Let me know what you all think! Thanks in advance!Shane [image] Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:53:36 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=673207 mpax4059 2011-06-21T05:53:36Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=656970 does any one know what has been burned besides the dairy?? Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:47:15 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=656970 rclineus 2011-04-09T23:47:15Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=603090 I'm wondering if there is a chance for my photos to be on TV?  If so how do you pick which ones? Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:11:15 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=603090 Kezia45 2010-11-12T21:11:15Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=340125 What is the weather from Hays to Kansas City...tonight or tomorrow morning?What would be the better time to travel?  Considering the weather?  Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:17:32 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=340125 joyhh 2010-01-06T23:17:32Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=266088 Will Summer 2009 Bring Twisters? Wind? Hail? Flooding? Well, So Far it's Been Pretty Quiet. Spring Brought a Few Tornadoes, Minor Floods, And Microbursts, Some Downbursts. But There is Always The Autumn Season. There is More of a Chance there When it's Humid and Warm. (79-98 Degrees, 64%-100% Humidity) Remeber Back in the Fall of 04 (EARRLYY Fall) We had a Funnel Cloud Pass Over our house And it looked Pretty Good in Size. Probably EF-1 To EF-3 Sized. After the Funnel Passed, Reports of a 106 M/h Wind Gust Poured into The NWS at around 6:47 PM CST. It Caused Around 400K$ In Damage ( Pretty High Cost [image]) And Took No Lives, It Hurt 27. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:53:04 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=266088 TBolt1000T 2009-06-30T21:53:04Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=190137 A leaky roof kept students away from McPherson Middle School today. Most of the water damage is in the kitchen and back of the building. It is not known at this time if school will be held tomorrow. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:07:27 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=190137 ddc757 2009-03-30T17:07:27Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26919 An EF-4 tornado with winds of 166-175 mph swept through Oklahoma and Missouri Saturday, killing 21 people. Hardest hit were the towns of Picher, OK, where six died, and Seneca, MO, where ten died. The violent tornado was up to a mile wide. It's been an unusually early and violent tornado season in the U.S. There have been 905 tornadoes so far this year, a total usually not seen until late July (Figure 1). Saturday's deaths bring the 2008 U.S. tornado death toll up to 96--the most tornado fatalities since 1998, when 130 people died. With at least another month left in peak tornado season, 2008 ranks as the 12th deadliest year in the 59-year record. The Picher tornado was the sixth violent EF-4 tornado of the year. Amazing video: why not to take shelter in your car during a tornado If you haven't seen it, the video captured by a surveillance camera during the Leighton, Alabama tornado on May 8 is a stunning testimonial of why one should not try to escape a tornado using a car. The EF-2 tornado with winds of 111-135 mph picked up cars like toys and tossed them into the air. A large number of tornado deaths and injuries occur when people try to escape the twister in their car and get caught by the violent winds. Tue, 20 May 2008 20:18:33 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26919 WeatherGame 2008-05-20T20:18:33Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26916 We live on a dangerous planet. In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones of all time, China's worst earthquake in 32 years has struck just 12 days later. Rarely in recorded history have twin natural disasters claiming 10,000 or more lives struck so close to each other in time. The last such occurrence I could find was in China in 1931. That summer, the world's deadliest natural disaster of all time--the Yellow River Flood of 1931--killed between one and four million people. On August 10 of the same summer, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake killed 10,000 people near Fuyun, China. Another notable twin disaster occurred on September 1, 1923 when the Great Kanto earthquake hit Japan. Winds from a passing typhoon fanned fires that sprang up after the quake, and the resulting fire storm engulfed Tokyo, killing over 100,000 people. Still, with a major volcanic eruption in Chile and an unusually severe tornado season pounding the U.S. with killer tornadoes, May 2008 will long be remembered as one of the worst months for natural disasters in world history. Cyclone Nargis update A tragedy of truly epic proportions continues to unfold in Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. The United Nations now unofficially estimates that the death toll from the storm is at least 100,000, with up to 220,000 people missing. It is now 12 days since the cyclone struck, and aid efforts are only about 10-20% of what is needed to bring life-saving water, food, and medicine to the 1.5 million people affected by the storm. The death toll will now start to rise sharply, as the failure to provide adequate relief within ten days greatly increases the risk of disease and death in survivors of a cyclone. The indifference of Myanmar's leaders to the plight of its suffering people could make the death toll from Nargis the second highest in history, next to the 500,000 people killed in Bangladesh's Great Bhola Cyclone of 1970. Cyclone Nargis' unofficial death toll of 100,000 currently ranks the storm as the 10th deadliest in world history. Figure 1. Topography of Myanmar, with track of Cyclone Nargis superimposed. Image credit: NASA. Was the population warned? Many of you have expressed amazement that so many could die from a tropical cyclone in this day and age of satellites and modern communications. Why did it happen? I believe there are two main reasons: the historical lack of tropical cyclones that have hit Burma's Irrawaddy delta, and the unwillingness of Myanmar's leaders to provide adequate warnings for fear of jeopardizing their May 10 referendum to consolidate their power. According to irrawaddy.com: Appearances on Burma's state television by the country's director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Tun Lwin, always attract a large following. Viewers like his style and informative approach to weather reporting. But now those same viewers are asking: "Why did he fail to warn us of the approach of Cyclone Nargis?" According to well-informed sources close to his department, Burma's leading meteorologist passed those warnings on to the government in Naypyidaw, together with information about the cyclone's strength, expected course, and timing. Tun Lwin reportedly suggested the warning should be carried by state media, but sources said he was told by his bosses in the capital: "Don't create public panic ahead of the referendum." Warnings of the approaching cyclone were finally published in the official press, but they were buried amid news of the approaching constitutional referendum. I've been sent an image of the warning for Cyclone Nargis as it appeared on May 2 in one of Myanmar's main newspapers, "The New Light of Myanmar". The warnings for Nargis on the day it made landfall as a major cyclone were buried on page 15 of the obituaries and miscellaneous section of the newspaper. Figuring into the junta's logic for ignoring the approaching cyclone was the history of tropical cyclone strikes on the country. Since reliable records began in 1970, there have been only six hurricane-strength tropical cyclones to hit Myanmar. See the paper, "Simulation of Storm Surges Along Myanmar Coast Using a Location Specific Numerical Model" (Jain et al., Natural Hazards 39, 1, September 2006) for more information. The storms are: 1975 Pathein cyclone, Cat 1 (75 knots), hit just north of Irrawaddy Delta. An estimated 1.2 meter storm surge occurred. This storm did inundate the Irrawaddy delta, and 187 people died. 1982 Gwa cyclone, Cat 4 (120 knots), hit Gwa, north of Irrawaddy delta. An estimated 4 meter storm surge occurred. 1992 Sandoway cyclone, Cat 1 (65 knots), hit Sandoway, farther north than Gwa. An estimated 1.2 meter storm surge occurred. 1994 Sittwe cyclone, Cat 4 (125 knots), hit Sandoway/Sittwe. An estimated 1.2 meter storm surge occurred. Mala of 2006 was a Cat 4, (115 knots) and also hit north of the Irrawaddy delta. No storm surge estimate available. Nargis of 2008. In the pre-1970 years, I could find only one mention of a hurricane-force storm hitting the country, a Cat 1 cyclone in 1936 that killed 36 people. A significant cyclone hitting the Irrawaddy delta causing thousands of deaths would very likely have been recorded, had this happened any time in the past 300 years. Such events were recorded in both India and Bangladesh during that period. Nargis appears to have been the only major tropical cyclone to hit the Irrawaddy River delta in recorded history, and may be a once-in-500-year event. Comments from Chris Burt I've been in regular communication about this disaster with Chris Burt, author of the excellent book Extreme Weather . He has been visiting Myanmar every year for 30 years, and has much insight on the situation there: Anecdotally, I can say in all the time I've spent in Burma I have never heard anyone talk about or worry about tropical storms, it simply is not in their consciousness. This is why people really didn't heed the warnings. People were warned at least 48 hours in advance--I got an email from a friend two days before the storm telling me about the warnings in Rangoon. More severe weather today The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of eastern Texas and surrounding states under their "Slight Risk" category for severe weather today. The Weather Underground Severe Weather page and Tornado page are good places to go to follow today's severe weather. A slight risk of severe weather is also expected Thursday over the deep south, from eastern Texas to Alabama. [image] [image] Tue, 20 May 2008 20:11:06 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26916 Monica 2008-05-20T20:11:06Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26915 The weather in the region ravaged by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar has taken a turn for the better today, after a low pressure system that brought heavy rains and 20-30 mph winds yesterday weakened and moved off to the north. This system appeared to be a threat to develop into a tropical depression yesterday, but interaction with land is hindering its development, and the low is no longer expected to become a tropical depression. You can view the latest satellite images of the low (dubbed 96B) at the Navy/NRL web site. The monsoon is coming However, the respite from bad weather will be short-lived, as the mighty summer monsoon is almost upon the disaster area. The Southwest Monsoon (called that because the winds typically blow from the southwest) is an annual rainy period lasting from late May to mid-September in the regions surrounding the North Indian Ocean. The monsoon forms in response to the unequal summertime heating of the air over the land and oceans. The land heats up quicker than the oceans, creating low pressure and rising air over the Indian subcontinent. Moist air from the oceans is drawn in over the land areas to replace this hot, rising air, and the moist oceanic air brings heavy rains to the region. Truly prodigious rains accompany the arrival of the monsoon. The capital of Yangon averages about one inch of rain per month in the period just before the monsoon starts, and twenty inches per month thereafter. Figure 1. Current position of the Southwest Monsoon, (northernmost green line), compared to average. The northern edge of the monsoon is almost upon the region hit by Cyclone Nargis. Image credit: India Meteorological Department. As of today, the edge of the monsoon was just 100 miles south of Yangon and the Irrawaddy delta region (Figure 1). The monsoon is expected to push northwards into the region by Saturday--about one week earlier than average. The monsoon will greatly complicate relief efforts in Myanmar, which can expect flooding rains and problems with mud-choked and washed out roads. The monsoon will continue to affect the area until September. One bright side: once the monsoon arrives, it greatly reduces tropical cyclone formation in the North Indian Ocean. Major tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean are most common in May and November, just before and just after monsoon season. Was the population warned? Many of you have expressed amazement that so many could die from a tropical cyclone in this day and age of satellites and modern communications. Why did it happen? I believe there are two main reasons: the historical lack of tropical cyclones that have hit the Irrawaddy delta, and the unwillingness of Myanmar's leaders to provide adequate warnings for fear of jeopardizing their May 10 referendum to consolidate their power. I've been sent an image of the warning for Cyclone Nargis as it appeared on May 2 in one of Myanmar's main newspapers, "The New Light of Myanmar". The warnings for Nargis on the day it made landfall as a major cyclone did not make the front page, but instead were buried on page 15 of t [image]he obituaries and miscellaneous section. The story did not talk about the storm surge or the cyclone's maximum sustained winds, and only mentioned that Myanmar might experience 50 mph winds in squalls. At the time the newspaper was likely preparing this article, both the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the India Meteorology Department were calling for Nargis to be a Category 1 or Category 2 storm at landfall in Myanmar. Tue, 20 May 2008 19:59:07 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26915 Rukus 2008-05-20T19:59:07Z http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26910 For the first time since the the incredible Hurricane Season of 2005, a new set of Atlantic hurricane names has been permanently retired. Members of the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee decided to retire the names of Hurricane Dean, Hurricane Felix, and Hurricane Noel during their annual meeting in Orlando this week. These names will not be used again because of the significant death and destruction these storms caused in 2007. The names Dorian, Fernand, and Nestor will serve as replacements of the 2013 hurricane season, when the names from 2007 are scheduled to repeat. The list of retired hurricane names now features 21 storms from the decade of the 2000s, and 70 storms since 1954 The names for the coming 2008 Atlantic hurricane season are Arthur, Bertha, Christobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, and Wilfred. Looking at the latest long range GFS model forecast, there's no sign that we'll be seeing Tropical Storm Arthur during the last half of May. Wind shear remains seasonably high over the tropical Atlantic, and there is plenty of dry air evident. In the Eastern Pacific, where hurricane season began yesterday, the names for 2008 are Alma, Boris, Cristina, Douglas, Elida, Fausto, Genevieve, Hernan, Isell, Julio, Karina, Lowell, Marie, Norbert, Odile, Polo, Rachel, Simon, Trudy, Vance, Winnie, Xavier, Yolanda, and Zeke. There's nothing brewing in that ocean basin, either. April 2008: 13th warmest April on record for the globe April 2008 was the 13th warmest April for the the globe on record, according to statistics released by the National Climatic Data Center. The January-April year-to-date period ranked twelfth warmest. A weak La Niña event continues to cool ocean waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. The La Niña event weakened considerably in April, but has stabilized just above the threshold for being classified as neutral, during the first half of May. A cool April in the U.S. For the contiguous U.S., April was the coolest April in 11 years for the lower 48 United States, and fell into the lowest twenty-five percent of all Aprils based on records going back to 1895, making it the 29th coolest April on record. Precipitation was near average for the month. April arctic sea ice extent April 2008 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent was the eighth lowest on record for the month of April, 7% below its extent in 1979 when satellite measurements began, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. April was the fifth straight month that a new monthly minimum arctic sea ice record was not set, following a string of five months in a row where monthly records were set. The past four years had the least April sea ice extent since records began in 1979, with 2007 having the least April sea ice extent on record. However, while the ice extent is not at a record low this year, the volume of the arctic sea ice is probably at a record low for April. The ice is exceptionally thin across the Arctic this winter, and the edge of this thin first-year ice extends beyond the North Pole. I'll have more on Cyclone Nargis next week. The Southwest Monsoon has continued to push northward, and is expected to move into the cyclone-devastated region on Saturday, bringing heavy rains. Tue, 20 May 2008 19:41:14 GMT http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service/displayDiscussionThreads.kickAction?w=118628&as=33096&d=26910 isabella 2008-05-20T19:41:14Z