Comments on: Famous July 4 Severe Storms

By: Ben (Holland, MI)

Ben (Holland, MI) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:24:07 +0000

On an unrelated note, SPC has some of our area in a “SEE TEXT.”

By: Charles Russell - (Kent City, MI)

Charles Russell - (Kent City, MI) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:43:32 +0000

Thanks Rob

By: Rob Dale

Rob Dale — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:33:26 +0000

I don’t think wind farms can cause or enhance thunderstorms… In any case – they are popping up just about anywhere on the boundary where you see east winds from the lake hitting south winds out across central WI. Nothing connects that to the wind farm.

By: Charles Russell - (Kent City, MI)

Charles Russell - (Kent City, MI) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:15:07 +0000

Hey Bill, do you think the wind farm is having an affect on this developing storm?

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=pan&prevzoom=zoom&num=20&frame=0&delay=15&scale=0.125&noclutter=0&ID=MKX&type=N0R&showstorms=0&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&map.x=400&map.y=240&scale=0.125¢erx=386¢ery=626&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&lerror=20&num_stns_min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999&smooth=0

You can see it pop and merge right where the wind farm is. I’ll save the image and upload to imageshack later and have a post in my blog about it. I’ll also relink that image here if you miss the current one.

By: pete from byron

pete from byron — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:22:04 +0000

good kite weather

By: Rob Dale

Rob Dale — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:58:09 +0000

I remember the 1977 one very well from Toledo’s perspective… 7 years old and we were at Promenade Park for the fireworks, and left in a hurry when they changed the forecast from “Clear tonight” to “Severe thunderstorms coming”