Crazy storms sweeping throught he city. LGA is pretty mcuh shutdown. I was watchin weather radar and Passur as it cmae through and evne zoomed out to the 80 mile view on Passur, I can't see ANY LGA traffic whatsoever.
Any LGA guys able to share any eyewitness ont he insanity?
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Worst lightning I have seen in a while, about an hour before the storm hit I went out on the roof for a few gridlock photo's, got a couple with 16 airliners sitting on taxiway's Alpha and Bravo all East of the USAirways Terminal. Needless to say some of them where pretty close together and at the head of the line was our friend N742PS ! Will try and upload to JP over the weekend !
Cheers
LGA777
from my wx source, as of 0119Z:
looks like fun!
it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.
By far the most lightning I've ever seen. At least four strikes extremely close to my LIRR train from when we exited the tunnel to Jamaica: brilliant flashes followed immediately by loud thunder. When I got to Jamaica I just stood and watched for awhile and counted about 30 flashes per minute. These map I found confirm that count...
Courtesy StrikeStarUS.com:
Courtesy HazardPredictor.com:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
Great stuff, I love storms. Tyler took this shot tonight. I couldn't catch a strike if my life depended on it. Tyler's asks to give it a try and he gets it on the first couple of attempts.
Mike
Wow, that is an awesome picture!
Mike, awesome shot! Where do you live?
The beehive hummm of the JT9D and GE CF680C2,the thunder of the JT8D-17,the rumble of the PW1830 and the high ,thin whine of the PW 545A are all music to my ears!
Thanks guys. I live in Rockaway Beach. Oh, and for those who do not know, Tyler is my 6 yr old son.
Mike
We had two different storm cells converge right over Marlton, dumping an insane amount of rain on us, lightning everywhere, and knocking out our power for a good five hours. My dad was washing his hair when a bolt of lightning struck in our backyard (I was upstairs in my bathroom at the time, looking out the window to watch the lightning... talk about seeing the different shades of color in a lightning bolt and scaring the living **** out of me!) and he swears it went through the water and struck him.
Steven Holzinger
http://www.zingeraviation.com
Managed to get a short video from my house in Brooklyn; a few cracks are seen in the sky:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 193160&n=2
Christos
cool video!! It seems these storm die out by the time they reach Eastern Long Island, we got a few claps thunder and that's it.Originally Posted by fly.mcs
Up in Poughkeepsie we haven't been getting much of the storms that have been going on latley, pretty unfortunate since I love storms. But it meant that SWF was reciving a lot of diversions.
Mike, that shot that your son took is pretty amazing, looks like somebodys catching up to their dad! :P
Storms moving west to east (as they normally do) usually die down far west of that, before they even hit NYC. Thunderstorms don't like mountains or water, so the bigger ones usually lose much of their intensity by the time they make it to the city, and especially Queens and Brooklyn having crossed two rivers and some mountains in NJ. Despite all the severe thunderstorm warnings issued for the 5 boroughs in my time on earth, I can only recall ONE that did any major wind damage (not including lightning damage), and that was when I was about 7 years old. I've only seen hail a couple of times, and both times it was small and stopped quickly.
I think I've said this before, but the weather pattern we're in reinforces my belief that there are some major changes occurring in the atmosphere. The weather over the past several months in NY and the world has been very odd. The humidity of the past couple days has been oppressive like the deep south in August...very similar to how it felt in the days when the remnants of Hurricane Katrina were passing over us last September. Massive typhoons hitting Australia and China. The biggest snowfall in NYC history, complete with thunder and lightning. A tropical storm hitting PORTUGAL!
I'm not at all convinced that humans are causing this.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
Managed to get a short video from my house in Brooklyn; a few cracks are seen in the sky:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 193160&n=2
hey is it me or a few of those bolts actually touched the ground- those are some great shots there btw - as far as long island - its rainging here with alott of ligthing. its awsome to watch though when your not sleeping =) i am sure many of you would agree with me on that one.
also one time about 3 years ago i saw a WN 73NG takeoff during a thunderstorm - i even saw the lighting too - anyone care to explain tht one too ?
-Bobby Catone
ALL views, opinions expressed are mine ONLY and are NOT representative of those shared by Southwest Airlines Co.
It's my understanding that lightning STARTS at the ground, or from whatever object is being "struck".
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