Waterspouts – Flooding
June 30th, 2009 at 11:56 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
The weather was eerie in Erie today. Three waterspouts were spotted on Lake Erie and up to 5.48″ of rain caused significant flash flooding. The water flooded the Belle Valley Fire Dept. up to 4 1/2 feet deep, causing 1/2 million dollars in damage. A disaster emergency was declared in Erie as homes and businesses flooded and several individuals had to be rescued from stranded cars. A number of streets remained closed Tuesday evening. They still have storm total rainfall up at this hour at CLE NWS. In Cleveland, 20,000 customers were without power after lightning blew out a major transformer. Severe storms also caused lots of damage (trees on houses and cars) in Connecticut
what a mess im first
Holy moly! Those showers passed through here first, didn’t they?
I am guessing that they got an emergency there because they have a bigger population than Holland. Otherwise, we got more rain and I’m sure there was close to 1/2 million dollars in damage here.
Not at all… It’s part of the same system, but they weren’t the same showers. They were helped by warmer temps of Lake Erie which resulted in some instability (sort of like lake-effect snows.)
Ben, I was wondering the same thing!!
Something isn’t right here!!!
I remembered a few years ago that South haven had a few offshore that was video taped..Wonderful site!
Cloudy with light rain and a cool temp of 61° here! Happy 1st of July!
Way too early to product what the up comming winter will be like and I have no idea of writers track record but I came accross this that should warm the hearts of all the cold winter lovers!
Winter 2009-2010.
By Mark Vogan
Produced: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A weak to moderate El Nino will force global warming folks to shout, “warm, warm, warm,” but I am becoming increasingly concerned at what this upcoming winter may bring. Looking closely at what’s happening, the hurricane season, the winter season, and the overall bigger weather picture, and I believe the Northeast and even into the South may be in for a winter that will take their breath away.
Those shouting last December when it was 70-80 degrees across the Southeast about how winters aren’t the same and they’re warm and wimpy. Well, the increasing evidence ringing clear in the cooling SST’s deep in the heart of the tropical Atlantic may force the abandonment of that nice, warm high that keeps a corridor from New Orleans to Washington, D.C. sub-tropical feeling in mid-winter and shut many up who say, “the Earth is at tipping point, look at all the warm air around, look at the blooming trees along the Mall in Washington or in Central Park.” That growing blanket of hellish cold is growing by the year, and it’s knocking on the doors of those very places that plan to get the shorts out and light up the grill this December and January.
The corridor of cold shifts this winter to the East Coast, after three winters of little snow and mild temps as the El Nino will push the moderating high off the Atlantic Seaboard by a persistent trough, which may very well regularly rotate arctic air in to cause problems. I am becoming increasingly worried about a cool, wet summer in the populated Northeast from D.C. to Boston and the stage being set for the weak to possibly collapsing (by November) El Nino, which enhances the southern branch jet and has a notorious reputation of producing severe winters for this part of the country in particular. Enhance the southern jet, which sweeps across the South and up the East Coast, and pull a trough of arctic air in, and you have big cyclogenesis potential. Pull the storm north off the coast, and that trough drags frigid air straight off the Hudson Bay vortex and produces subzero air temps into the heavily populated, oil-fueled Northeast.
The potential for a severe winter, that this part of the country has not seen in 20 years, is highly possible when you consider the building cold caused by the past winters and a weak El Nino that has a bad habit of bringing a bad winter, even in warmer times. Northwestern Europe has the same type of potential as the Northeast. All you would need is to pull a few hurricanes up the East Coast, stripping away surface heat off the Eastern Seaboard, and those arctic highs may be less moderated by recent winters, where waters were warm enough to moderate arctic highs pulling down from Canada.
The only region of the country I see having a warmer-than-normal winter may be the West, where a ridge may persist as the trough drops into the East; however, this may be one of those seasons where the amount of cold availability may be such that it overwhelms the lower 48 from coast to coast.
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Posted at Sunday, June 21, 2009 9:49 AM
SlimJim
I seen one in 1998 between Escanaba and Menominee out in Lake Michigan. It is a fabolous site to see. That was actually during the major storm that hit Door county wisconsin which I believed produced a tornado. Bill you remember that. The storm caused major damage throughout Northeast Wisconsin and southern Upper Michigan. It produced waterspouts which I seen and a tornado in Door county. We were on our way home to Esky and couldnt wait to get home because the storm was so bad.