The National Weather Service said that a line of thunderstorms began to move across the northern San Joaquin Valley and into the Sierra foothills around 4 a.m.
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Thunderstorms are really rare there, maybe a couple a year is all. Small tornadoes, maybe one every five years? And I don't think I've ever heard of 75 mph straight line winds before.
75 with 90 gusts? Phsaw - 'tis but a breeze.
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty wild. A line of yellow and red on radar came through at 4 am. The line extended from well south of your old stomping grounds clear up to well north of Butte County.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall ever seeing a solid line of wild weather like that before. Fortunately it moved through really quickly, so it was over before you knew it.
Looks like it is heading your, and our, way this evening. Jeff C. in NC
ReplyDeleteWe're already getting some good winds and the weatherdog is cowering, so yeah, we'll catch it here pretty shortly.
DeleteIt can be either "straight line" winds or "tornadic" winds, but not both.....
ReplyDeleteThe night of my first (and only, so far) tornado, we got hard straight line winds, then 15 minutes later got hit with an F-1.
DeleteI think it's judgement from G-d.
ReplyDeleteWell, those left coast greenies have been praying for rain for quite awhile….. I guess they just weren’t specific enough….
ReplyDeleteSeems like only last week they were whining about FEMA money for drought. Before that it was the electrical grid.
ReplyDeleteLike Rosanna Danna once said, "It's always something..."
Front Range (Denver) gets those straight winds. Railroad welded some cars to rails to act as wind blocks up above CO93 between Boulder and Golden. 100+mph
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