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Tornado warning in northern Worcester
By adamg on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:54pm
Richard Beaubien captured twin lightning bolts hitting Bolton.
Maybe Leominster will still be with us in the morning. You know it's serious because Ed Harding on Channel 5 has his glasses down near the end of his nose.
Photo of the storm cell's edge.
Katken photographed a bolt over the Arboretum, after the storm moved southeast.
Johnmcboston photographed lightning over the South End.
Photos copyright Richard Beaubien, Katken and Johnmcboston, respectively. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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Comments
How much do I hate when he
How much do I hate when he does that? Almost as much as when he gestures at the screen behind him.
Frustrated Bachelorette fans
Heather Unruh ended Channel 5's coverage of tornadopocalypse by telling Bachelorette fans to stop whining - tornadoes are a matter of life and death.
Hah. In other news, the NWS
Hah.
In other news, the NWS reports: AT 836 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUDSON...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRAMINGHAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
Not exactly close by just yet, but draw a straight line along its present path, and it comes uncomfortably close to the Hub.
The rest of us
Adam, I give you credit for acknowledging a world beyond Brookline. Some others won't, but I will not name names.
Oh, but I will
Could somebody please tell the Herald that Leominster and Fitchburg are not western Mass.?
Sure they are
Central Mass is between Newton and 495. Western Mass is between 495 and Sturbridge, and anything past that is technically considered a part of Nebraska.
Hah
LOVE the comment on Ed
LOVE the comment on Ed Harding... can't stand him! Much prefer the longtime, and somewhat folksy Jack Williams.
Spider-webby goodness over Boston
Elizabeth videoed this from her South Boston rooftop tonight:
Severe weather on the rise in Mass?
Purely impressionistic, but it seems that over the past few years we've seen an uptick in the number of severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings/watches in Massachusetts. I've been here 16 years, and until a few years ago I associated bad weather with snow storms.
I've been learning about stormchasing and read pieces by experienced weather experts who aren't ready to associate increases in severe weather with climate change, so I'm not going down that path right now. Rather, just noting that weather forecasts during spring & summer in New England are starting to sound a bit like what I heard growing up in NW Indiana.
Telling point: When UMass-Amherst recently upgraded its campus-wide security warning network, it included tornadoes on a small list of events that could activate the system, along with campus violence and 1 or 2 other possibilities.
Hard to Say
I remember tornado warnings forcing us into the sub basement when I worked in Andover - probably 1987. I could gladly complete my lifetime without ever seeing a sky like that again! I also remember a hot summer with frequent evening storms when I worked over in Mission Hill - '02 or '03, and a brutally hot summer in 1988 that had the 4th floor research lab that I worked in running night shifts only.
This is an unusually hot summer, though. I told my son that I couldn't remember a hotter one in his lifetime - although the summer I was pregnant with him ('95) was pretty uncomfortable.
MA is much more touchy about tornadoes after Great Barrington got hit with an F4 not too long ago. It became an obvious possibility to plan for. That means more attention paid to warnings and watches. The Merrimack Valley is another mow zone.