Massive Candian Low Pressure System

Early morning was awakened to the WX radio going off to notify us of a massive tornado watch area. Then a little before 7am we got notified of a tornado warning nearby. Fun drive in dodging small tree branches! Gonna be fun today.

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]KDPA 261252Z 21022G34KT 10SM SCT018 BKN026 OVC040 19/16 A2902 RMK AO2 PK WND 17053/1214[/FONT]
 
Everskyward said:
Here's the bell they recovered from the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, MI if anyone is interested. I came upon it wandering around amusing myself.

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I had to play that song just now... Love it.

The bell looks beautiful in its restored state. Lots of memories with it I am sure.

Is it just me or is that the UGLIEST welding on the stand that holds up the bell ???????? :dunno:

Ben.
 
Death tube riders take note:

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica]Due to WEATHER / TSTMS, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Chicago OHare International Airport, Chicago, IL (ORD). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 3 hours and 23 minutes. To see if you may be affected, select your departure airport and check "Delays by Destination".
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And they've issued a ground stop for inbounds to O'Hare because of the thunderstorms, and departure delays of a half hour because of winds.
FAA Delay Information for ORD

Ground Delay Program - This airport has issued a Ground Delay Program affecting flights arriving between Oct 26 7:17 AM and Oct 27 12:59 AM due to WEATHER / THUNDERSTORMS. Flights are being delayed an average of 203.0 minutes.
Delay - This airport is experiencing departure delays of 31 to 45 minutes due to Weather:Wind since Oct 26 7:35 AM.
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yea it looks like they hired me to weld that
 
From Rowan County AWOS-3.

KRUQ 261420Z AUTO 20009KT 10SM BKN011 OVC018 22/19 A2992 RMK AO2

Seems like it's pretty calm, low ceilings though. I'm sure it'll get worse once the cold front and low pressures pass through though.

Concord Regional is having worse weather.

KJQF 261455Z 19010G16KT 6SM BR BKN012 OVC018 24/19 A2993
 
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First canada geese and now this :incazzato:
 
KORD is packing the arrivals right now. I am watching the radar and they are landing on three runways and it looks like 3 to 5 miles in trail all the way back into the lake!
 
Looks like the low is centered somewhere between Moose Lake and Superior at the moment...

KMZH 261514Z AUTO 00000KT 1 1/4SM +RA SCT004 BKN009 OVC019 14/13 A2843 RMK AO2 P0007
KSUW 261515Z AUTO 06011G15KT 3SM RA OVC003 12/11 A2843 RMK AO2 P0008

ADDS surface chart shows the low backing around NW to the Int'l Falls area tonight and deepening to around 957mb. KMSP's record is probably not in danger...

KMSP 261501Z 24017G28KT 4SM -RA BR BKN013 OVC020 08/06 A2863 RMK AO2 PK WND 25028/1454 P0001
 
N801BH said:
The bell looks beautiful in its restored state. Lots of memories with it I am sure.
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Here is the story of the shipwreck, the recovery of the bell and the memorial bell they replaced it with which contains the names of the lost engraved on it.

http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-journey-62/
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/the-bell-recovery-63/

N801BH said:
Is it just me or is that the UGLIEST welding on the stand that holds up the bell ???????? :dunno:
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Haha, I guess you could say that.
 
RMCN172RG said:
Or the Gales of November come early.

This is pretty early.
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Naw, I think it's right on time. Here in Minneapolis we've been experiencing warmer than normal temps along with almost zero precip for several weeks. Last night and this morning we got about 1.5 inches of rain with lots of thunder. Today the wind is howling and supposed to include gusts of 60+ mph and tomorrow calls for more of the wind plus highs in the 40s. Some years it's too hot on Halloween to walk around with a full costume and sometimes we have a blizzard but either way, the end of October and/or early November usually brings plenty of wind and cold around here.
 
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No snow is in Tuesday's forecast, but the barometric pressure could drop to 28.35 inches (959 millibars). The lower the pressure of a storm system, the more violently moisture is sucked in.

WX geeks will be watching barometer!



Count me a weather geek..... Eleveth-Virginia Municipal airport, Eleveth, Minnesota, close to center, reporting 2382..... java METAR chart shows 2831...

KEVM 261712Z AUTO 06010KT 5SM RA BKN008 OVC015 13/12 A2832 RMK AO1 P0004
 
So far, MSN bottomed out at 28.82, peak wind 180 at 38 at 1225Z. MKE bottomed out at 28.92, peak wind 220 at 48 on the latest METAR and it's still whippin' out there. Big shift too, it was at 160 most of the night and morning, and at 1452 switched to 220 and picked up.
 
Dan Thomas said:
There are diamonds in Saskatchewan, which isn't all that far north.
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It depends on what part of Saskatchewan! Who cares about diamonds anyway? I thought what people wanted from Canada was oil.
 
And the record at International Falls has already fallen.

KINL 262045Z AUTO 07006KT 10SM FEW008 BKN013 OVC018 13/12 A2823 RMK AO2 RAE31 P0002

New all-time record low pressure for that station. It's already starting back up.
 
scottd said:
KFOZ 262033Z AUTO 35005KT 7SM RA BKN007 OVC012 13/12 A2822 RMK AO2 P0008

Central pressure around 955 mb. But its still got a ways to go to beat any record for an extratropical cyclone.
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JOOC, what is the deepest extratropical cyclone on record? I found an online reference to a Braer Storm in the North Atlantic in 1993 that had a central pressure of 914 mb, but was wondering if are deeper ones than that on the books.
 
ScottM said:
Early morning was awakened to the WX radio going off to notify us of a massive tornado watch area. Then a little before 7am we got notified of a tornado warning nearby. Fun drive in dodging small tree branches! Gonna be fun today.

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]KDPA 261252Z 21022G34KT 10SM SCT018 BKN026 OVC040 19/16 A2902 RMK AO2 PK WND 17053/1214[/FONT]
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My lab people in Indianapolis went to sheltered areas this morning because of a tornado warning.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
My lab people in Indianapolis went to sheltered areas this morning because of a tornado warning.
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My SO had to do the same this morning.

Grant's workplace had an air conditioner or blower type thingy come off the roof at his work today. I saw some pics of it and it landed right out the window of a person's office. That'll probably cause a bit of fright!!
 
scottd said:
All you have to do is look at the freezing level chart to know something interesting is going on...tornado watch now in my neck of the woods at the moment.

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That's one HELL of a hook echo.:hairraise::hairraise::hairraise::sad:
 
The storm in Cleveland today was pretty tame all things considered. I was ready for a show, but we got about 15 minutes of heavy rain and moderately heavy winds, no lighting at all. Lowest pressure we got was 29.39 (thanks JesseWeather!).

Great sunset and rainbow afterward, though.
 

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Stuck in Southern OH at some training. I think it was a classic "marriage storm" - it was warm, then it was wet, then there was a blow, then someone lost their house.
 
They're reporting the record-breaking low pressure in the Minnesota news here as well as other places. There's a NWS announcement linked to on that page that was released quite a few hours before the low got down to 955mb, so the actual records will be a lot lower than reported there.
 
Traveled MKE-MSP and back today. It was a rock 'n roll day, though the enroute portion was pretty smooth both ways:

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]Depart MKE: KMKE 261252Z 17017G24KT 2 1/2SM +RA BR FEW010 BKN017 OVC033 18/18 A2893 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 3 SLP795 P0023 T01830178 $[/FONT]

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]Arrive MSP: KMSP 261453Z 25016G24KT 3SM -RA BR SCT010 OVC017 08/07 A2863 RMK AO2 PK WND 26029/1401 RAE04B25 SLP696 P0000 60001 T00780067 50007[/FONT]


[FONT=Monospace,Courier]Depart MSP: KMSP 262353Z 25024G44KT 10SM OVC035 07/01 A2887 RMK AO2 PK WND 25044/2344 RAE2254 SLP779 60021 T00720011 10072 20056 51031 $[/FONT]


Arrive MKE: KMKE 270052Z 22022G29KT 10SM FEW060 12/03 A2929 RMK AO2 PK WND 21036/0018 SLP919 T01170033

By the way, one thing I learned in the ASF's "Real World IFR" seminar was a way to obtain TAFS and METARS by texting to "41411" and in the body type "METAR MKE" or whatever the three-letter identifier is, without the "K" prefix. It was interesting to see what was happening on the other side of the glass at the airport.
 
Some airport/airplane damage from yesterday's storm

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At the DuPage County Airport in West Chicago, three single-engine airplanes were heavily damaged by what the airport manager described as a microburst that went through the west suburbs around 7 a.m.
One of the planes was whipped by the wind over an eight-foot chain-link fence, said DuPage County Airport Authority Executive Director David Bird. At the time, weather equipment at the airport recorded a 70-mph wind gust, he said.
Although the plane had been secured, it was no match for the wind.
"It was in the third row of the parking lot," said Casey Roddy, an employee at the nearby ATP flight school.
Kevin Sisty, another ATP employee, said the other two planes were damaged when one broke free of its tie-downs and was slammed into the other plane.
By late morning, workers had moved all three planes to the front of a nearby hangar. Two appeared to have damaged wings and the third appeared to have suffered heavy damage to the tail section. Bird said it was likely that all three planes were totaled.
The wind also caused some minor roof damage to one of the airport buildings, he said.
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/10/wind-wrecks-3-planes-at-dupage-airport.html


Video report http://news.yahoo.com/video/chicagocbs2-15750637/storm-flips-3-planes-at-dupage-airport-22644358
 

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azure said:
They're reporting the record-breaking low pressure in the Minnesota news here as well as other places. There's a NWS announcement linked to on that page that was released quite a few hours before the low got down to 955mb, so the actual records will be a lot lower than reported there.
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The recording barometer at home dipped to 28.49 yesterday and has been climbing steadily ever since, reaching 29.07 this morning. The wind's still blowing pretty strong though not quite as bad as yesterday and last night.
 
Wow, extreme weather in North Carolina today, tornados everywhere. I hope there were no aircraft damaged.
 
The winds are still blowing here too! In fact they were much worse today than yesterday. Last night we had my airplane out on the ramp testing out the alternator. It was no problem. Today I was up on the roof of the building where I work learning how to use a Go-To telescope and was nearly knocked over by sudden wind gusts quite a few times.

It's supposed to slo-o-owly calm down over the next couple of days. That monster storm is a real sloth/snail/pick your favorite slow animal.
 
A nephew of one of the aviation social networkers was killed by the storm when a tower he was videoing from was blown over in IN. :(
 
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