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KG4CGC
06-09-2011, 04:59 PM
Any of you NorEasters getting any of the big weather?
W1GUH
06-09-2011, 05:00 PM
No! Gotta find out where it is and go see it. Seriously, thanks for the heads up.
KG4CGC
06-09-2011, 05:04 PM
Penn to Boston.
W1GUH
06-09-2011, 05:12 PM
The storm is in the Bronx right now....should hit here soon. No hail reported, tho.
KJ3N
06-09-2011, 05:46 PM
It's still fscking 96 degrees here and no sign of any storms.

ETA: OK, checked the radar. Front should move through here in about 1.5 to 2 hours.
PA5COR
06-09-2011, 07:29 PM
^ Putt on helmet if you go out.....
n2ize
06-09-2011, 07:33 PM
It came through here a few hours ago. dark skies, high cold winds, hail, rain. And most of it passed to the north of me so I wasn't right under it. . I'd imagine it was a lot worst right under it. Still a lot of residual lightning and thunder all around.

Classic summer weather round here. I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty more of it before the fall/winter comes.
W3MIV
06-09-2011, 07:37 PM
Friend of mine had a Mercedes 180 utterly bashed to ruin by softball sized hail in Italy back in the sixties. Don't wander out in it; that stuff can kill.
KJ3N
06-09-2011, 07:38 PM
No hail. Just wind and rain. I miss all the fun....
N8YX
06-09-2011, 07:43 PM
Friend of mine had a Mercedes 180 utterly bashed to ruin by softball sized hail in Italy back in the sixties. Don't wander out in it; that stuff can kill.
On June 6th, 2007 a fellow ham/shooting buddy who lives in Akron had his F-350 Super Duty get beat right to hell as a result of grapefruit-sized hail which fell from a 60kft-tall SE-moving supercell. The storm eventually went tornadic one county further southeast; all told, it did around $100 million in damage to the area...mostly from hail.
W5GA
06-10-2011, 07:07 AM
The car dealers here have "hail damage" sales on an annual basis. The guys that do paintless dent repair can do a land office business with a spring like we've had.
w2amr
06-10-2011, 12:33 PM
About 9 last night. Sideways rain, and marble size hail. Lasted about 30 min.
KG4CGC
06-10-2011, 12:52 PM
Wednesday we had pretty strong storms, broke a couple of trees, power lines in the neighborhood.
Yesterday it was Charlotte NC that got the big storm. Super flash floods and broken trees.
N8YX
06-10-2011, 02:17 PM
I rode the Connie into work today. Three out of the last five have seen some pretty powerful storms roll through here and I've managed to dodge them both coming and going. Tied a cover onto the bike on Tuesday morning in anticipation of an a$$-whooper of a supercell that was moving off Lake Erie. Said cell managed to untie and remove the cover. Whole lotta bikes in the parking lot got a free bath that day and very few of the crew have ridden to work since.
NQ6U
06-10-2011, 02:17 PM
Hah! You think that's tough? Hell, back in day, when I was a kid during the last ice age, we'd laugh at mere softball-sized hail. We had basketball-sized hail every day. Sometimes it would be as big as beach balls! Kids these days are soft, I'm tellin' ya. Now, get off my lawn!
n2ize
06-10-2011, 03:31 PM
I rode the Connie into work today.

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KG4CGC
06-10-2011, 03:40 PM
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Haha! A plane with 3 tails! No waiting just don't look over at the guy next to you.