What is your weather today?

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Walks

Well-Known Member
Warm 63°, clear with a few clouds. We are between rain right now. Weather this season is back to what it was in the 1950's - 1960's in SoCal.
 
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BudHyett

Active Member
Glaciers said:
I’ve only experienced one small tornado, I was very young and lived in Minnesota at the time. From my young memory is simply going into the basement with Mom. I’m sure it was a small marginal tornado. But it’s a wind event I will always remember.
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Growing up on a farm in Western Illinois, we had a tornado in the night that literally lifted a portable 12' X 20" hog house with the hogs over a four foot fence and dropped it in the neighbor's field with little damage to the hog house and not losing a hog.

We were extremely lucky to not have damage.

It was a month before the hogs would go back in that hog house to sleep.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Rick said:
Add in the ocean and I would probably never get the stains out of my shorts. :eek:
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Thinking of your statement there I clearly recall one time when my son and deckhand were out 90 miles out of Valdez about 20 miles down the outside of Montague Island for a 2 day overnight halibut fishing trip.
Or charter was a crew of 6 that went out with us usually Twice a summer. One of those two day trips resulted in a load of 2703 pounds of halibut. So we had the habit of going where the good fishing was.
Anyway the KraKaDawn was a custom built aluminum welded 35x12 certified. We built it in La Connor Washington in 1994. Twin Cat diesel at 840 hp. It was the fastest charter vessel in PWS for two years.
The trip I’m referring to we fished the first day and put the hook in inside of Patton Bay on the outside of Montague. This is a bay where you only stayed if you were confident the weather was going to remain fairly nice.
About 2 in the morning the weather started to come up. By 5 AM we were getting hammered while at anchor. Decision was made to fight our way back to the entrance of Prince William. Talon and I prepared the vessel for a rough time. Everything had to be tied down so as not to lose gear overboard. Also don’t need projectiles crashing inside or outside.
Well I had to have Talon work the windless as the moment it would pop out the vessel would be getting pushed fast as the wind at anchor was about 30 knots plus.
Took us an hour and a half to get out of Patton and round Box Point. By the time we rounded Box Talon and I well knew we had a problem. We were making about 2 maybe 2.5 knots. We had of course made our crew aware of the situation, which didn’t need any convincing that they needed to follow instructions from me or Talon instantly. We had sharp rollers coming on the Starboard forward quarter with about 4 foot of cross chop. The rollers were realistically about 12 foot. Most people that own boats would have said they were 16 foot seas. But 12 was a very rear measurement. Fortunately the rollers were of a nature that able to climb and crest and slide down the other side.
We were able to make about 6 knots to the entrance. Once we got inside the sound I headed to Deer cove and anchor up. The last 10 minutes of cruising to the Cove started getting a banging from the starboard prop and shafting. Shut the starboard drive down. Wasn’t sure what had happened.
We finally got back to Valdez late that night, slow as we were on one engine.
Upon inspecting the damage to KraKaDawn the port bow had cracked under water 14” that would open slightly when the bow would drop into the bottom of a roller. The pumps we’re keeping up ok.
The banging was the starboard strut that carries the 2” stainless shafting right in front of the prop. This strut was 1.5” by 10” that was snapped off and hanging.
Other damage was at the rear dinette table had been ripped out by guys hanging on and the front dinette in the pilot house was torn out as well and the seat at the back side of the forward dinette was crushed by big John when he came down when the vessel was coming up. Both tables ended up in the v birth.
Well I’ve got to run as I’m due at Dave’s pretty soon to check out that Savage.
There’s a little more to this story that I feel is interesting, so I’ll post more and edit this post. Just thinking about that trip has me shaking right now. I could have killed Talon.
 
JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
1º F and sunny, with a pretty good breeze...Still about 8" of icy snow on the garden,
Spring is just around the corner, I can feel it.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
It's hold onto your hat day, today!:eek:



There is a likely risk of severe weather today. Wind, tornadoes and hail are possible. Look out for large hail and powerful tornadoes. Have a plan and be prepared.

Fri 31 | Day​

100% chance of rain.
SSW 16 mph
Thunderstorms likely. Rainfall will be locally heavy at times. A few storms may be severe. High 78F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%.
 
L Ross

L Ross

Well-Known Member
I think Spring has sprung! We had a good rumbling crashing thunder storm last night and my grass is turning green over night. I swear I am watching the green creeping across the yard. Nitrogen fixation from the lightning? 47°, maybe, finally things will improve. Might just be coincidence but my wife is getting home from her vacation from hell today. I can't wait to hear the details. Letting her vent should be cathartic for her.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
No melt here either. Green usually will show up here on Cinco de Mayo. Normally a little snow left, first buds on the trees, and what would spring be without the first mosquito which tends to show up at the same time.

But still have some snow to melt.
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JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
32.5º and rain, and still 8" of icy snow on the garden
...some of the rain looks like tiny ice balls. The liquid puddles on the driveway have some of these ice balls floating, like ice cubes in a drink.
I had a facebook memory from 2021 popup, where I was redoing a sidewalk (made with patio blocks)...btw, today, that particular sidewalk has a pile of icy snow on it, part if it is still 3 feet high.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
10 minutes ago, marble sized hail for 10 minutes. 78 degrees out. Now, rain coming down in sheets and driven by a 20 MPH south wind.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Holy crap- we literally just blew into Tulsa.

50 mph gusts. Dust is kicking up all over.
 
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