WTF - there's a bleeding tornado warning in NYC

[shadowkat]

There's this insane storm that landed on us.

We've had not one but two tornado warnings. Both originating in Staten Island.
And there's a tornado warning in Brooklyn. Their definition of tornado warning is not the same as mine. I came from a Kansas. A tornado warning in Kansas is a tornado has hit the ground. In NYC, a tornado warning is the conditions are perfect for one but they can't tell if there is one anywhere and haven't seen one.

LOL!

NY is hilarious when it comes to weather warnings.

Also keep in mind that if a tornado hit -- what would we do? We live on a series of islands. Basements are necessarily accessible. I mean come on! Although I do live in a 77 unit apartment complex built in the 1920s with stone, brick and motar. I figure I'm safe. Also the airports are still open and running business as usual, as are the ferries and subways.

The weather people are a big indignant about it.

What happened? We had it in the 60s all day long, and then suddenly it got warmer.
Boom.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, definitely not like tornado warnings anywhere else.

We get them in Florida, and most of the time it means there is going to be a damn tornado. But we don't get anything like Kansas and Oklahoma get. (My sister lives in Oklahoma City.) That's crazy shit.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, the New Yorkers are freaking out. I'm just laughing at them. Because I've been through real tornado warnings. When a tornado actually landed and took out buildings a few counties over.

Tornados can't really touch down in NY. We have a weird combination of river and ocean currents plus hills that sort of make it impossible for a tornado to really form or land.

Hurricanes do more damage here than severe thunderstorms.

But this was an unusual storm for NYC -- two back to back severe storms, with potential for tornadoes -- just doesn't happen in NYC.

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, and Florida is having temperatures in the low 100s and no rain. The world is wacky.

[shadowkat]

South Carolina is too. While Denver got snow last week.

[cactuswatcher]

In AZ, too, we've been unusually cool. It snowed a little last week on top of Mt Lemmon, the highest mountain very near Tucson. The Midwest has been pretty much spring as usual: cool air from the west hits hot moist air from the gulf and you get one storm after another. I heard NBC saying tonight that all the rivers around St. Louis are high. Not a big surprise. If the Missouri and the Mississippi are high, the rest of the rivers will back up above flood stage even if it hasn't rained much in the local area.

[shadowkat]

The flooding in the midwest is horrible right now. There's a town in Oklahoma that is completely shut off from the world because it's surrounded by a flooded river.

And my cousin informed us that she could see the flooding in Missouri and Kansas from the air.

Meanwhile there's a drought in the Southeastern States -- Florida to Virigina, with record temperatures in the 100s. My mother keeps telling me it is too hot to move in Hilton Head, normally it's in the 70s down there this time of year.

[conuly]

A tornado touched down in 2007, in Brooklyn. Prior to that, it took out half the trees on my block and twisted the gutter off my roof.