***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
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Do people actually pay for that? That's like taking a moon spotting class.
Why do people need a class to say hey................that's a storm?
When people with no training spot a storm..........does it count?
If a storm blows a house down and no trained storm spotter witnessed it.................did it really happen?
Maybe they should form a storm spotting union so no one is allowed to spot a storm without a permit. And no storm can be said to be a storm until someone with the proper training and permits verifies it's a storm.
Just from this thread the last few years I've learned the lead singer of 3 Doors Down and a former Drake basketball star are now professional storm chasers.
Exact shape the orange moderate has been showing for the past spc days. Weather forecasting is so interesting to me that we can even do it.
Hate to see the impacts but SPC really needs a “nailed it” day today.
Am I missing something? All of these ominous predictions but no severe thunderstorm watch? Maybe they are backing off on the severe prediction. It is rolling though western Iowa with no bad weather so far.
The bad stuff is the line that developing behind Omaha.
Not the main band yet. Messaging has been consistent with it being an afternoon and evening event. Watches are issued a couple hours ahead so you will start to see them pop up shortly (hence the MD).
Trick is how to do it safely. But there is also a lot of knowledge of types of clouds and storm fronts and how air movement affects storms.
Looks like the focus of potential tornadic storms has shifted south. I wouldn't rule out some small hail for central IA, but the significant severe threat has diminished IMO
it's so annoying when people get hyperlocal and say "well I didn't get a tornado or as much rain as they said!!" but the fact remains that we now have the capability to say there is a high probability that a *fairly small region* will experience specific types of weather in these time frames. Sure, you didn't get a tornado but an EF3 went through 20 mi away and the NWS predicted it 3 days ago.
I'm basically a weather knowledge level 201 instead of 101 but is there just enough moisture/instability already that it doesn't matter that it's that cloudy?
