Bad Weather in the USA

[Trekhawk]

How are you girls faring over there?
I have been seeing reports on the news of floods in Indiana and major wind damage in Nebraska. Seems like each time I turn the tv on another state is getting hit with some severe weather.

Hope you are all safe, dry and have your homes intact.

[mimitabby]

it's the craziest weather map i've ever seen. Winter weather warnings over here; (coupled with high wind) Fire weather in the south west, hot and muggy and high winds in Arkansas, midwest flooding, tornadoes and thunderstorms and a huge heatwave on the eastern seaboard.

nuts!

[frnz]

It's a freakin monsoon here. There was even some lightning earlier, which is really weird. This is winter weather, not spring.

[Tokie]

Rain and snow in Jackson Hole, where we will be starting our bike tour in 2 weeks eeeek! (I'm from So Cal, where it really doesn't rain much)Last year there was barely any snow on the Jackson area mountain peaks to see. May be different this summer as we ride to Sioux Falls SD! Tokie

[Mr. Bloom]

The floods in Indiana are real. Tornados last week. I guess we're having the same spring weather that Texas had last year.

But, this afternoon will be sunny and only 82!

[Aggie_Ama]

Texas is also setting record temperatures daily, 101 yesterday in Austin. June is normally hot but the 100's don't occur on multiple days until July. We are already on mandatory Stage 2 drought water schedule in my neighborhood. Every county in the area is under a burn ban due to the wind and extremely dry conditions.

[mimitabby]

last week was the coldest ever on record week in June for Seattle.

[dachshund]

Just plain old hot around San Francisco, but it's normal for this time of year. More wind than usual, I'd say. But the fires did start real early this year. That's our big worry is fire season, followed by floods in the winter.

[sundial]

I've wondered about our Indiana members. I hope no one has flood damage. The Silvers are ok, but how are the rest?

[Beane]

lots of flooding here in WI too. i'm fine (while i hate living on the top of a hill when biking, it can be useful at times). hope others have fared as well as i have.

[makbike]

Temperatures and humidity finally broke here in Kentucky today. Looks like we will get one day of "normal" June weather before the hot/humid stuff returns tomorrow. I know my furry buddies appreciate the break in temperatures and would appreciate it more if I would turn the AC on for them.

I did notice on today's club ride how dry it is here in Kentucky. The heavy rains have stayed north of us and as we rode today I noticed lots of creeks were dry or very low. I sure hope we don't have another drought this year.

[sundial]

Even with all the rain and flooding we had at Easter, the farmers are already complaining that the soil is too dry. I guess it's because we had so much wind in May.

[mimitabby]

good grief, There are tornado warnings all over NY state!

[Midmichigangal]

I hope the cooler weather sticks around. Here in Michigan we have been dealing with the heat and high humidity since last week with severe storms all weekend. I hate working indoors and outside in the heat and humidity, I get so sweaty and grimy just from being at work. We did get much needed rain but also have lots of tree damage and power outages on east side of town from storms on Friday. Lucky for me the storms weren't as severe on the west side of town where I was working. After dealing with this heat and humidity I sure miss the spring weather. Heat and humidity is sure the one thing I hate about summer.

[HoosierGiant]

I've wondered about our Indiana members. I hope no one has flood damage. The Silvers are ok, but how are the rest?

We're in east-central Indiana. Lots of rain and day after day of storms, one death in the county due to flooding, but nothing even close to what they're dealing with southwest of here after 10.94 inches of rain last weekend. My prayers go out to them. (I sandbagged for a week in Quincy, Illinois, during the 500-year flood of the Mississippi in 1992 -- this type of thing is absolutely devastating.)

Locally, Knightstown was hit with 100 mph straight-line winds in the first round of storms; tiny little Carthage saw a tornado dance through two days later. The June 4 and May 31 entries here -- http://bicycleeyes.wordpress.com/ -- give one a feel for the damage.

[sundial]

I sandbagged for a week in Quincy, Illinois, during the 500-year flood of the Mississippi in 1992 -- this type of thing is absolutely devastating.

We moved from MO before that flood. It was really a sight! Can you believe that Dutchtown was under water yet again this spring??

[mimitabby]

We moved from MO before that flood. It was really a sight! Can you believe that Dutchtown was under water yet again this spring??

500 years goes fast!

[emily_in_nc]

last week was the coldest ever on record week in June for Seattle.

And the hottest in NC (four 100+ days in a row -- in freaking June! It's not even officially summer yet!)

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us. :(

[Trek420]

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us. :( and she bats last :(

[Tuckervill]

And now she's beating up on Boy Scouts:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/11/severe.weather/index.html

Karen

[Trekhawk]

Wow is really does sound like the weather has gone crazy in so many places.
I hope things start to settle down for you all
Keep safe.
TH

[mimitabby]

And now she's beating up on Boy Scouts:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/11/severe.weather/index.html

Karen

oh how horrible!

[janeho]

Your weather even made the evening news in the UK this week.
There was some film footage of a whole house been washed away and swept downstream in Wisconsin

[jeannierides]

We finally got some relief yesterday after days of record-breaking 100+ temps in VA!
All the flooding and storms are crazy scary!:eek: I'm glad all you gals are ok!:D

[Thorn]

A year of odd weather....record snowfall totals last winter and now record rainfalls for the month of June. A week or so back I read about 10" of rain in Indiana and thought, "how does the land possibly cope with that much rain in a short amount of time". Last weekend, we found out. It doesn't.

I'm counting my blessings that I live on the top of a hill and my sump pump is holding. That is, I live at the peak of the subcontinental divide where the water either goes to the Mississippi or to the Great Lakes. Those living down the hill in both directions and down stream aren't faring as well. I feel bad for them and another inch or so of rain coming.

As a cyclist, reading the road closures is like reading past cue sheets. A lot of those beautiful roads are under water or under threat. No matter how far society progresses technologically, Mother Nature likes to remind us that she is still in control. OK, I think we got the message.

[emily_in_nc]

Today we had dense smoke in the central part of NC, blown in from a huge wildfire down at the coast that they said could burn for months! I had to skip my mtb ride after work due to code red air quality (cough cough, it was horrible). Nothing like what folks are dealing with in the midwest flooding, though, or those poor boy scouts. Really tragic. :(

Emily