#weather warnings

[northern-punk-lad]

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There is a red weather warning tomorrow for Northern Ireland and Scotland (I’m not sure about the Republic of Ireland if your from there feel free to add to this post)

A red wealth warning is a threat to life the met is expecting tornadoes so do be safe

[melonthesprigatito]

So, uh, is anyone in Northern Ireland fucking TERRIFIED right now or is it just me

Literally never seen 80MPH winds on a weather report in my ENTIRE LIFE

[madauntie]

Just about shit my pants when the emergency alert on my phone went tonight! Storm Eowyn looks like it's going to be a doozy. Stay safe out there my dudes!

[can-i-explode-now]

there's red weather warnings for Wicklow and a bunch of the counties around the southwest (idk which ones) and only orange for all the counties between them. How is the wind getting from Dublin to Wicklow without touching any of the counties between them?

[the-re-farmer]

That's more than 10-20cm...

So… we got a bit of snow, overnight! 😄 It’s still snowing a bit as I write this. According to the weather radar, we are pretty much in the middle of the system that’s passing over us, but I’m just barely seeing snowflakes fluttering around at the moment. We are still under a snowfall warming, and they are now saying to expect a total of 15-25cm/6-10 inches of snowfall. I think we already hit…

[goodgrammaritan]

Uhhhh...

[tamilethnicity]

Weather maps show exact areas under Met Office storm warnings

The Met Office has issued several yellow weather warnings, including alerts of strong winds and heavy rain that will impact areas across the country. From 8 am today until Tuesday, 28 January at 6 am, parts of Britain will be hit with “strong and gusty winds,” as well as severe rain that, according to the weather agency, could cause “some flooding”. The winds that hit the South East up to…

[bronwynhillside]

In 1889 in England, Vice Admiral Fitzroy started the Met, produced the first daily weather forecast and in 1890 stopped ships sailing in gale conditions. Fisherfolk loved him for the amount of lives saved. The ship owners hated him and overturned his ruling at his death. Fisherfolk forced it back.

You see, if a ship sank, the owner could make more than its worth from insurance, so who cared if it sank?

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

[towerblockers]

Tragedy Strikes as Storm Eowyn Claims Life in Donegal

In the early morning hours, as Ireland was battered by the fierce gales of Storm Eowyn, a tragic event unfolded in the rural town of Raphoe, Donegal. At approximately 5:30 AM, a large tree succumbed to the storm’s relentless force, crashing down onto a car and trapping the driver inside. The victim, whose identity has not yet been disclosed in respect to the family’s privacy, was declared dead…

[kazifatagar]

Severe Weather Warnings for Sabah, Sarawak, and Johor Maintained

KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued severe weather warnings, with continuous heavy rain expected in Telupid, Beluran, and Sandakan, Sabah, until tomorrow. Alert-level warnings for continuous rain have also been issued for parts of Johor, including Kluang and Johor Bahru, and several areas in Sarawak, lasting until Sunday. Severe Weather A Category…

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[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[foxssleeplessness]

First tornado of my life, kinda nervous

[the-re-farmer]

Glad to be home today!

First, I need to share this bit of cuteness. Behold, the grandmas! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) Even Butterscotch is in the picture! Just before I was able to take this picture, I watched as Freya slithered her way into the cat bed, on top of Beep Beep. They spend a lot of time, snuggled together in there! Butterscotch being where she is on my bed…