There has never been a tornado in MN during the month of December. That will change today, hopefully nothing occurs like this past Friday down south.
That Blue line is concerning that would put me pretty close to a direct hit, on the bright side I won't fret about losing trees, the view would be even better.
The blue line isn't anything more than a ruler to get a measurement estimate. Has no bearing on storm motion or anything like that.
I've spent an hour trying to figure out somebody else's mistake... Can't get him on a call either. I'm pretty sure he's about $1m off... I'm equally sure the client will tell me to pound sand regardless...sigh.
Not looking forward to it, we've already lost buildings in past Decembers that are no where near the wind velocities excepted..
It is going to be interesting to see what happens when the wind hits from the SW. There is water on top of the ice SW wind is going to get funneled between the east shore and west shore, it is a semi narrow lake with steep banks on most parts of the shore. When the water gets pushed to the north end I wonder if it will break the ice? Temp is down to 41 already wonder if that takes out the tornado chances?
Checked online the fire place will still burn if we lose power, I stopped and got extra beer. I don't have a basement so if it is going to hit I will climb in the beer fridge and ride it out.
Looks like the streak will continue, some weakening of the overall threat, especially on the north end. Still not over for southeast MN, but not as bad as it once looked.
Weird hard rain and fog and December lightning and thunder, forgot how neurotic the little yapping bastards are about thunder.
Winds are 30-50mph out of the SW tonight. Our bedroom is on the SW corner of our house. There's a 70' tall, 5' diameter cottonwood and a 50' pine tree within 20' of our bedroom walls and ceiling. I'm sleeping on the front (north side living room) couch tonight. Told Mrs. Noodles she was welcome to join me, she passed. Logging in to MetLife soon as I post this...
Had a few gusts to 56mph here, non thunderstorm. Waiting to see what this line if showers does. Rain is actually pulling down winds from above, there is no convection with it. Some areas to the west have seen higher synoptic winds than they did with the Thunderstorm warnings.
so far gusts are hitting at just under 40mph, but the real storm isn't supposed to hit until about 50 minutes from now.
We lost power at work around 10-1030. Went down hill pretty quick and just got everything fired back up. Rest of my night will be busy, its not good when every heater on a machine to melt plastic suddenly stops and theres no heat for bout hour and half. Just so happens the other maintenance guy called in, again, so I got to be the one that went around and restarted main power. Ya know that scene in Jurassic Park where she pumps up the main breaker before it turns back on. Yea I just had to to that 3 times. Good times. That big pop with make ya pucker. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Hardest part of the commute was getting to the freeway, zero snow from St Cloud to the suburbs only took hour 45 minutes so just a half hour longer than normal.
