OT Portland Thunderstorms

What the fuck is with the weather in this city? And the weather stations too!

Portland has to be the only place that issues a severe storm warning for itself....and never gets a thunderstorm.

http://www.kgw.com/weather

Look at the fucking radar! Everyone else has a thunderstorm brewing right now......except us. It's literally a giant circle of storms at least 20 miles or more away from the Portland/Vancouver area.

Fuck that shit. Even the fucking weather hates Portland!

 

Same. Had my windows open all day, and you can definitely smell the change in the air.

 

Tennessee has some awesome thunderstorms.

 

It quite possibly could be that as well, lol.

 

I call BS.
Dogs hate thunder.

 

Fucking arthritis is screaming thanks to the thunder clouds rolling through the mid-Valley...

 

I'm hoping we get a nice thunderstorm tonight. Nothing I like better then drinking a beer on my front porch watching a thunderstorm. A thunderstorm on my Birthday would be one hell of a treat.

 

Sly is already ahead of the curve...

Does thunderstorms fuck with arthritis? I've heard severe weather can have strange effects on those with medical conditions.

 

It's a Severe Weather Watch in effect for the next 6 hours. Its a lot different than a warning. A watch is regional, saying that it's possible in the time frame. A warning is county-by-county and basically means that the area will/is experiencing severe weather.

EDIT: I was looking at weather.com. The KGW link did say we are under a severe thunderstorm warning, which makes no fucking sense. Haha.

 

Weather.com is the source to use IMO. I doubt the National Weather Service actually issued us a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. I feel like it's just KGW either fucking up and not distinguishing between "Watch" and "Warning", or they're just pretending they're the NWS and issued a warning on their own. Haha.

 

I actually just got home from reffing a Mac soccer game that I had to call 1/2 hour early because of the lightning.
Shame, was a good game too.

 

If anyone wants to see the lightning in real time, I'm using a tracker map:

https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#y=45.8433;x=-122.3149;z=8;t=4;m=sat;r=1;s=201;o=1;b=0.00;n=0;d=9;dl=9;dc=0;dn=1;ra=0;i=1;

I don't know if that map will work for you directly. You may have to play around with it.

The Dalles are really getting lit up right now.

 

We just had a tornado warning for here and Crater Lake for like a half an hour before it got rescinded and turned into a severe thunderstorm warning. Pretty bizarre.

 

I saw it on radar. Pretty nasty storm.

 

Nice storm just wrapped up here in Clark County. Lotta lightning.