On Friday last week we saw a pretty good storm roll through here and there were some very cool pics taken. If you have one please share it on here. For now though read the following articles and comment on the storm.
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/09/05/nasty-weather-moved-through-the-barrie-area-friday-evening
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/environment-canada-confirms-tornado-touchdown-east-of-orillia-/35458/
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/09/06/orillias-couchiching-beach-park-badly-damaged-by-storm
1) Where were you? Did you get to see the clouds, hear the thunder etc?
2) What was it like for you? Were you scared, amazed, or what?
3) Have you ever witnessed a sever storm like that before? How was is? Where was it? How did you feel?
4) What caused this storm to form?
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm hit I was in the car with my mother driving cross town home bound. As we got closer to our residence the storm had picked up quite fiercely. The sky was completely black if I didn’t know any better I would assume it was midnight. As we arrived the trees tilted and we were unsure if we could get to the front door without being completely soaked. So as we got out of the car we sprinted to the front door to only have to wait for my mother to open the door fumbling with her keys. Long story short we got caught in the terrible storm and it sucked.
Was there hail in your area?
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm hit I was in my apartment doing my homework. I heard the thunder so I took a peak out the window and saw a massive dark thunder clouds move across north Barrie. This was probably the first time I've encountered a storm like this, i was very amazed to see clouds moving like. This was one crazy storm
This is my weekly response. When the storm hit, I was in my bedroom listening to some metal music and streaming some games with my fellow UK friends and we were all laughing because I just eliminated most of the opposing team by surprising them by jumping off a rooftop. I suddenly noticed that my room just got darker and I told one of my team mates to cover me while I step away from my controller for a moment. I noticed that the clouds were really dark and they were moving in the direction away from my window. To be completely honest, after I checked out the clouds I went back into what I was doing. It was the sudden thunder that startled me. I also have never experienced a storm like that since my parents decided to take me and my siblings to Florida as a vacation four years ago. A storm is formed when cold air pushes hot air up.
ReplyDeletewas there hail when you were hit with the storm in florida?
DeleteActually, there was no hail when I was caught in the storm in Florida. I was just caught in the pouring rain and strong winds.
DeleteThis is my weekly response. When the stormed hit I was waiting for my mother and brother to come home from shopping. I was sitting in the living room watching "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" when every thing turned dark. I turned off the TV because I knew it was going to rain. As soon as the rain stopped my mother and little brother came home. We then had dinner and left to see my grandparents. The raining had stopped but the thundering had not. When we made it to my grandparents it had only been for hour when everything there turned black, the birds were acting crazy and the wind was strong. That was when the second wave of the storm hit. The stormed scared me because it looked liked a tornado was going to pass. I have always been scared of storms but have always loved watching movie about them. I have never experienced a storm like that ever.
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DeleteThis is my weekly response. When the storm hit I was in my garage hanging out with my friends watching the clouds roll. We were all having a good time sitting outside until obviously it started poring rain. Me and my friends new that we would be safe as within the our the storm seamed to pass over.
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ReplyDeleteDuring the storm, I was at home with my mother. I did get to see the clouds, and I found the thunder to be quite loud. Personally, I was a tad annoyed by the storm, mainly because my mother continuously kept trying to usher me into the basement because she believed that it would be safer in case the weather became more severe. I have never experienced a storm as intense as the one that occurred on Friday. The storm was caused by a cold front moving into the area.
How severely did the storm hit?
DeleteHow often do you have somerthing like that here ?
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm hit, it was just 20 minutes after I got home from school. As I was longboarding home (25 minute ride), it was scorching hot because ofmthe UV index, the sky was nice and blue, and there may have been just 4 or 5 clouds in the sky. When I arrived at home, I took my bag, brought it downstairs to my desk, then checked my tablet for any notifications and such. When I was done, I walked upstairs, and rain instantly came crashing down followed quickly by hale. The wind was so stong in my area that I could see the rain turn into mist and get swept up before it could hit the ground. Trees were almost getting blown right over. At this point, my family was just working on their tablets, and because of the way the storm flew in, my mother suggested for us to go to the basement. This was only to realize that the storm flew by as quickly as it came. I was not too scared, however quite amazed; I had never seen a storm start that quickly!
Now, storms can form for many reasons, as there are different storms. However, I have not seen clouds like that before, so I am not familiar with it. I believe it to be some sort of cumulonimbus (Latin; cumulo=heap, nimbus=storm cloud) because of the force, the lack of light penetrating through, and the fact that there was hail. Cumulonimbi form when strong upwards air currents bring water vapour up, thus creating a tall 'heap'. It creates varying electric charges in the cloud that will produce lightning, the dense water from somewhat higher up rains down, and the water vapour that gets brought up to around 8-10km (I think) freezes into chunks of ice that are too heavy and fall to earth as hail. Truely a fantastic looking storm.
UPDATE(please mark as part of post) Oh, and sometimes, a thunderhead can turn into a supercell. This can creat strong winds similar to that made by this storm. I also saw that detroit got hit hard with the same kind of storm just the day before. If you saw the speeed that the storm was moving, and the direction in which it was coming from, it may have been the same storm or at least the same air currents.
DeleteSources: www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/09/06/storms-cut-power-to-more-than-600000-in micigan-illinois
www.universetoday.com/41646/cumulonimbus-clouds
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ReplyDeleteOn Friday, September 5th when the big storm it I was inside watching the American Pie movies when I noticed how dark my room was getting. I figured it was just a normal storm with dark clouds rolling in. So because I did not want to get up and check the storm I went on twitter where everyone thinks they are meteorologists. As I suspected there were so many pictures of what was going on outside. It was amazing and very surprising to see all the photos of the craziness of what was going on outside. So my parents were sitting outside watching as the storm formed and watching the clouds so I decided to join them. Shortly after I came outside it started hailing so we had to go in but the clouds were so amazing and pretty and nothing like I had ever seen before. I was not scared or anything but just shocked how cool clouds can really be. I have never seen a storm like that ever in my life but I am happy to have safely experienced that one. What causes a storm to form is convection. Convection is when the surface of the earth heats up. Then the heat and moisture gets transported up. Also a thunderstorm is formed when warm air is less dense than cold air.
Sources: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/swep/Spotting.html
When the storm hit I was in my house talking to my mom in the kitchen when it started to rain really heavily. We loked outside and saw these giant black clouds. We could hear the rain hitting the windows of my house. The thunder was also really loud. It was a constant banging. My mom was running from window to window to watch the clouds and the thunder. During the storm I wasn't scared I was just amazed at the scope of it. I have witnissed a storm like that before. I was in Toronto at my grandmas house when a storm almost like this one hit and we got stuck there for the night.
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DeleteWas there any damage nearby or anything?
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ReplyDeleteWhen the clouds rolled in I was in my house sleeping. Unfortunately I did not get to see the clouds or hear any thunder. This storm did not really affect me because I slept through it. This summer when I was at my cottage, there was a storm that lasted a couple days. It started when the temperature dropped from, t-shirt and shorts weather, to sweatshirt and track pants. The storm lasted for about four days with heavy rain going on and off, and high winds and the sky was very dark and uncertain. The water got very rough and we weren’t able to leave the island for about two days until the water calmed down. I’ve never experienced a storm that changed the temperature so drastically for so long, during the summer.
Did you enjoy watching the storm or anything?
DeleteYes it was very interest ion to watch, not the best way to end my trip to the cottage though
DeleteDid the storm scare you more being at your cottage than it would have if you were at your house?
DeleteWhen i was a kid a storm hit really bad above my grandparents cottage. The thunder would shake the whole house. The lake rose so much that it flooded the basement.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm had arrived, I was in my room doing homework and noticed these severally dark clouds had been moving in quickly and gathering together. I started to see some of the clouds gathering together and funneling up into the sky and others making what looked like a sideways tornado. The clouds where making a tunnel in the sky and started to spin faster and I believed for awhile there was going to be another tornado nearby. Then sky and clouds behind it looked a little green and behind that extremely dark storm clouds. I was out taking pictures when the rain hit and went inside to watch the rainfall and noted that the rain was falling extremely fast and that the street drains were filling up extraordinarily quick. Afterwards, the street's curbs had been full of water for a good hour afterwards.
Definitely the coolest storm this year.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm hit, i was on my way back home in the bus. I rcognized the really dark clouds before i walked into the bus and after 5 Minutes the rain started. It sounded like cartridges were falling on the roof of the bus and as i looked outside i saw clouds as dark as i never seen ones before. You have to know we have no tornados in Germany so i was like: "wow this looks amazing."After a 20 minute drive the bus dropped me off almost 200 meters before my house but this distance was enough so that the rain can give me shower. A bit later my host mum called and said that they maybe have to close the casino where she works, because the storm had hit something near it. In the end they did not close it. I also recognized that after this ring of clouds the sky was bright and found that really interesting too.
After this storm im glad that we dont have something like that back home.
Ps.: sorry for my english. Im trying hard.
What kind of storms do you have in Germany ?
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ReplyDeleteWhen the storm hit i was in my house taking a nap. My mom woke me up to see the amazing clouds that went by. I was not worried about the storm, the only thing i wanted to do was go and see the clouds. I have never seen a storm like that before the mix of heavy rain/hail with the weird clouds was something new for me. The reason that hail falls in the summer is because during a large storm water falls from the clouds but quickly turns to snow from the low temperatures in the sky. Then the up draft carries the snow back into the clouds where more water collects around the snow, this creates ice pellets or hail. This process is repeated until the updraft is no longer strong enough to bring the hail back up into the clouds, then it will fall down and hit the ground as ice.
source: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/rnhl.rxml
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DeleteWhen The storm hit I was in my house watching television not paying attention to anything around me. All of a sudden my mom came downstairs to tell me that there is a tornado warning in our area, I was very intrigued by this and I went outside immediately to check out the clouds and area. They were very dark and gloomy I was not scared by this but my little sister was. I found it very interesting how fast the wind was moving the trees around my house,there were times that I thought that they might blow over. I really enjoy watching storms like this but especially listen to them I went up to my room immediately and opened my window to listen to it. I am very excited to learn more about storms like this in class!
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ReplyDeleteI was outside for the first bit of the storm. I was walking home from school and got caught in the rain, about 20 minutes from my house. By the time I got home all my school stuff, and myself, was completely soaked. A little later on my mom ran into my room and made me look at how dark the clouds were, and the way they were shaped. Personally, I thought they looked really cool .
I love storms. The clouds were wicked i couldn't stop looking at them.
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On Friday when the storm hit, my dad and I were out driving to the mall. We could see the wind blowing things across the road, the sky was dark and the clouds in the sky were rolling and moving fast. I started freaking out and told my dad that we need to go home NOW, but he just laughed at me :(
Usually I like watching storms and sitting out side counting the thunder and watching the lightening, (Lightning is an electrical current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice ((frozen raindrops)) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The protons form at the top of the cloud and the electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The grounds electrical charge concentrates around anything that sticks up, such as people, or single trees. The charge coming up from these points eventually connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds lightening forms), but knowing that I’m in car far from home with hail the size quarters and the chance of there being a tornado, I wanted to go home. I think it was better to be in a storm with my dad than another family member of mine. To explain, unlike myself, my dad has been in a tornado before, so I guess knowing that he had been in one made me feel more comfortable than being in a car with my mom who hasn’t been in one.
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This is my weekly response: I was at work when it hit pretty bad. the clouds were right over us around the end of my shift, it went really dark for a couple hours as it was passing over. Our drive-thru window always leaks when it rains and we had to keep buckets under the window to keep my co-workers and I from slipping. We could hear the thunder through our headsets it was pretty intense. The last bad storm we had i was at work too, the power went out and we had to shut everything down for about 20 min. I ended up having to stay late and get a ride home from my supervisor. I looked up cloud formations and i think the clouds that we saw are called Nimbostratus. http://www.clouds-online.com/
ReplyDeleteThe annoying thing about being at work during things like this is that every time without fail everyone decides that during a tornado warning is the perfect time to come get coffee apparently.
DeleteMark this one: I was at work in the south end when the clouds rolled in. They made be do a garbage run before the rain hit but the clouds were still almost completely black. I don't remember hearing any thunder though. Just that when I got off it was pouring rain . I'm not a thunderstorm kind of person so it was kind of scaring. I pretty much just sat in my room. It was pretty cool seeing the clouds so dark though. One time in like grade 2 or something there was this huge storm that hit. It was flooding my school, breaking pieces off and all the students were being sent home. I was sobbing like a little baby haha.
ReplyDeleteI hope that happens to our school sometime soon free day off lol
DeleteI was on my way back to Ontario flying from b.c as i was driving back home from Toronto air port i noticed heavy dark clouds i didn't expect much but i was wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty kool seeing how a a perfect day can go south so fast.
I have been in worse storms rain heavy the clouds made it darker that it should have been covering the sun, i was moving up a mountain in B.C it felt good being out side but the rain made me change my mind.
I Think the Evaporation of water from the hot summer helped the storm and the lake effect that we get from the wind blowing toward us from the sea and lakes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/northern-lights-could-be-visible-even-in-south-thanks-to-solar-storm-impact-1.2764481
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