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Tom M
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It appears the upper North

It appears the upper North West is getting a foot of snow this week.

Washington, Montana, Idaho, not sure how far East.

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Tom M
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It appears the upper North

It appears the upper North West is getting a foot of snow this week.

Washington, Montana, Idaho, not sure how far East.

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)  I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!

mikey
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Tom M wrote: It appears the

Tom M wrote:

It appears the upper North West is getting a foot of snow this week.

Washington, Montana, Idaho, not sure how far East. 

If I get snow the State will shut down and  most of the Interstates will be closed as they let the trees grow high enough to keep alot of them in shade so anything falling on them won't melt and there are no trucks to plow anything East of the Blue Rdige Mountains. In fact a few years ago we got enough ice to shut down a major interstate for 4 days because it had 1/2 inch of ice on it and they had no way to get there from where the trucks were.

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mikey schrieb:[...] Next week

mikey wrote:
[...] Next week our highs should be into the low 70's again depending on Hurricane Tammy and what she decides to do by then. The current forecast is a to do a left hook back towards the US but it may do a right hook heading towards Europe instead depending on the upper level winds, it's too far out to know right now.

Please keep the Hurricanes on your side of the pond. Even the remnants of them are nasty. But they mostly hit Ireland and the UK, rarely the continent.

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Scrooge McDuck wrote: mikey

Scrooge McDuck wrote:

mikey wrote:
[...] Next week our highs should be into the low 70's again depending on Hurricane Tammy and what she decides to do by then. The current forecast is a to do a left hook back towards the US but it may do a right hook heading towards Europe instead depending on the upper level winds, it's too far out to know right now.
Please keep the Hurricanes on your side of the pond. Even the remnants of them are nasty. But they mostly hit Ireland and the UK, rarely the continent. 

Honestly I would love to as we are probably alot more prepared than you guys, or Ireland etc, are when they make their way to say HI to them too. We have power outages and flooding and all the other stuff that comes iwth them but for the most part after a week or so most of us are mostly back to normal hoping the next one misses us but as prepared as we can be if it does. Sure there are people that lose everything but thos people really are rare in the big scheme of things as are the people who have flood waters come into their homes and businesses but for most of us it's a News item and pretty cool when the actual eye goes overhead!!

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Over the weekend we had the

Btw. flooding: Over the weekend we had the worst storm surge (de: "Sturmflut") in the southern Baltic Sea in more than 100 years, affecting Danish Islands and the northern German states of Schleswig-Holstein (SH) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV). Tides have no meaning for the Baltic sea, this inland sea with only narrow connections to the North Sea and Atlantic through the narrow Danish straits (or "Belt/Bælt", as they are called in German/Danish). Tides only cause waters to fluctuate by 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 inches) normally. You can hardly see it at the beach.

The storm surge at the weekend was caused by a long-lasting storm from the northeast in large parts of the Baltic Sea, so that the water masses were pushed into the southwestern Baltic Sea, where they couldn't drain away quickly enough through the Danish entrances into the North Sea. At its peak, the water levels were 2.20 m (7.2 ft) above regular high water levels. It's extreme there and flooded old port towns, campsites, marinas; tore away many boats and destroyed beach promenades. A lot of work to fix that by the next tourist season.

On the North Sea coast we are prepared for the worst storm surges, even more so are the Dutch. But on the Baltic Sea, residents and authorities were caught unprepared by this extreme flood which are too rare, once-in-a-century events. The last more severe one was in Nov 1872, when waters rose by 3.3m (11ft) (linked German article bc english one lacks photos).

some current photos (src: NDR... North German public Radio & TV broadcaster):

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/sturmflut1620_backId-sturmflut1578.html

Tom M
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Oh, wow.  I hope there were

Oh, wow.  I hope there were no fatalities!

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It got a tad breezy in

It got a tad breezy in Scotland.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U03kVsVnKOw

Richard

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Tom M schrieb:Oh, wow.  I

Tom M wrote:
Oh, wow.  I hope there were no fatalities!

Not by the flood (some further photos). But the storm toppled a tree on Fehmarn Island which hit a moving car. The driver did not survive. All ferry connections to Denmark, the continent's gateway to Scandinavia, were suspended for more than 24 hours.

In the North Sea two cargo ships, the 3,000 tons British "Verity" and the 38,000 tons "Polesie" collided south of the German island of Helgoland. The British ship sank. Two sailors were rescued, one has so far been found dead, four more still missing. Search and rescue stopped this morning. There's no hope to find further survivors.

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Kavanagh schrieb:It got a tad

Kavanagh wrote:
It got a tad breezy in Scotland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U03kVsVnKOw

Incredible. Never thought something like this would be possible without the trees falling over immediately.

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