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re: Major Severe Weather Outbreak: March 14-16, 2025
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:10 am to Diseasefreeforall
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:10 am to Diseasefreeforall
shite it was ominous where I live and it barely rained. They nailed this forecast a week out, that is incomprehensible to me. Friday was calm and normal and Saturday it felt like the atmosphere was going to swallow us whole
without meteorologists there is no way the lay person could have known what was coming
without meteorologists there is no way the lay person could have known what was coming
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Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:11 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Yes, James Spann will try to calm folks with “weather anxiety”saying that their chances of being hit by a tornado are very slim. Don’t obsess over it but be weather aware. I watched a lot of his coverage yesterday and he did his usual excellent job. He amazes me with his knowledge of AL geography and places around the state.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:15 am to Hateradedrink
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Spann is the new target because he said NOAA cuts were stupid
Spann being a target of trolls is absolutely nothing new
In fact weirdly he may be the chemtrail people's favorite target and has been for a long time
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:21 am to Wishnitwas1998
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Spann being a target of trolls is absolutely nothing new
He usually covers up the names of these trolls. Didn’t do that for Jacob. I’m glad. Hopefully everyone who knows him will tell him he is an idiot.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:24 am to Hateradedrink
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Spann is the new target because he said NOAA cuts were stupid.
Funds would be better spent to fill radar gaps and improve coverage and technology. I would bet within a very short period of time the majority of workload declaring warnings based on radar images can be offloaded to AI with better accuracy and faster response time.
The .gov has hired hundreds of thousands of workers each of the past few years. Would you really argue that they've boosted productivity by a proportional amount? Interpreting radar images is a perfect example of a task where AI will outperform humans.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:37 am to tes fou
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Funds would be better spent to fill radar gaps and improve coverage and technology.
Sure, but that’s never what happens with you folks. No one is saying “let’s repurpose the money to improve forecasting” and it’s disingenuous to frame it as such.
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I would bet within a very short period of time the majority of workload declaring warnings based on radar images can be offloaded to AI with better accuracy and faster response time.
Absolutely, but the U.S. government is not a business. There is redundancy on purpose because the point is provide a service with as minimal failure as possible. This is because failure is catastrophic to citizens for many government services.
Intelligent people would put this technology in place prior to cuts and then repurpose or layoff unnecessary staff.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 9:38 am
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:52 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Nasty storm in SE Georgia. Tornado warning was just issued.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:55 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Luckily that's in the middle of the swamp.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:00 am to SteelerBravesDawg
What we learned after yesterday is that nobody should live in Bassfield, MS, or Tylertown. The usual suspects are the ones that keep getting hit many times. It’s something geographically significant about that area and where it is in regard to Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf that causes it to be in danger consistently.
Reed Timmer whiffed yesterday, too. When in doubt, go to Bassfield.
The 49 corridor northwest of Hattiesburg made for some interesting viewing yesterday. Several circulations passed by, but what shocked me is how many residents in Collins and Seminary don’t heed the warnings. The sirens are blaring and people still walk into Dollar General. Popeyes workers left to see if they could see anything coming. After one passed you could smell the very strange pine tree bark smell after some trees got damaged, and it was strong. I never smelled anything like that. I had some photos of trees down, but the tornado itself was hard to see. Just a dark gray mass.
The roads are very nice and easy to travel on that stretch between Hattiesburg and Jackson. I will be there again at some point, and there were a surprising amount of other chasers on the road.
Reed Timmer whiffed yesterday, too. When in doubt, go to Bassfield.
The 49 corridor northwest of Hattiesburg made for some interesting viewing yesterday. Several circulations passed by, but what shocked me is how many residents in Collins and Seminary don’t heed the warnings. The sirens are blaring and people still walk into Dollar General. Popeyes workers left to see if they could see anything coming. After one passed you could smell the very strange pine tree bark smell after some trees got damaged, and it was strong. I never smelled anything like that. I had some photos of trees down, but the tornado itself was hard to see. Just a dark gray mass.
The roads are very nice and easy to travel on that stretch between Hattiesburg and Jackson. I will be there again at some point, and there were a surprising amount of other chasers on the road.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 10:10 am
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:09 am to tide06
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I know of neighborhoods in AL where the same places have taken hits over a couple decades, but twice within a year is insane.
I grew up in a house in AL that was 10 years "newer" than my best friends a few streets over. I didnt realize till I was teenager that the original house was destroyed in a tornado in the late 70's. I remember my dad telling me the previous owner was a toy train collector and had our bedrooms setup as exhibits. I found tons of toy train tracks and toy trains when I would play in the yard digging and making hot wheels courses.
My dad would tell us "dont worry, tornadoes never hit the same place twice"
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:18 am to AutoYes_Clown
I love how people could be in harm’s way and Thracken is worried about a historic home he almost bought. 
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:20 am to schwartzy
Like Moore Oklahoma.
I worked there for a short time when I was living in Lawton. Scared the frick out of me during storm season.
I worked there for a short time when I was living in Lawton. Scared the frick out of me during storm season.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:22 am to tide06
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I know of neighborhoods in AL where the same places have taken hits over a couple decades, but twice within a year is insane.
There were 2 tornadoes on Tuscaloosa very close together: the big one on April 27,2011 and one that hit less than 2 weeks earlier on April 15, 2011.
There is a older subdivision that was grazed by both of them.
Thankfully for them, each time was only a glancing hit where minimal impact was realized each time.
Some limbs down off big trees, etc.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:35 am to East Coast Band
I drove through a neighborhood up in the Athens/Madison/Harvest area with large well built brick homes that had been cut in half by a tornado.
If you looked carefully you could see slightly different brick where some of the homes had already been repaired once due to a previous tornado. Apparently that neighborhood had taken three direct hits in 30 years or so.
Up there many of the homes are built with bright red brick made from the red clay soil and it was only the houses that had some other color or unique grout finish where you could tell, but once you saw it you couldn’t not see it.
There’s a reason why those storm tracker sites have so many lines so close together in certain areas, the atmosphere in those regions just lend themselves to storm development and just like with hurricanes or earthquakes it’s just something you have to accept or find somewhere else to live.
If you looked carefully you could see slightly different brick where some of the homes had already been repaired once due to a previous tornado. Apparently that neighborhood had taken three direct hits in 30 years or so.
Up there many of the homes are built with bright red brick made from the red clay soil and it was only the houses that had some other color or unique grout finish where you could tell, but once you saw it you couldn’t not see it.
There’s a reason why those storm tracker sites have so many lines so close together in certain areas, the atmosphere in those regions just lend themselves to storm development and just like with hurricanes or earthquakes it’s just something you have to accept or find somewhere else to live.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 10:49 am to tide06
For many years the areas south of Tuscaloosa always got hit. Skyland Blvd and Hinton Place neighborhood. When my wife and I were looking for a house after we got married the realtor kept wanting to show us things around there. My wife said they have too many tornados there.
We know they can happen anywhere though but that area is a magnet.
We know they can happen anywhere though but that area is a magnet.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:06 am to alphaandomega
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:07 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Northern Dallas County, AL.
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Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:08 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Talladega County, AL.
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Yes, if you live in “Dixie Alley” you take weather forecasting serious. Folks in north AL find that the most well known TV personalities are the meteorologists. Many years HD Bagley on WHNT TV19 was like the guru of meteorologists.
Then there was Bob Barron who really changed weather forecasting. Nowadays I usually watch Brad Travis on TV 48. I used to really like Jason Simpson before he moved back to B’ham.
Then there was Bob Barron who really changed weather forecasting. Nowadays I usually watch Brad Travis on TV 48. I used to really like Jason Simpson before he moved back to B’ham.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:21 am to George Dickel
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I used to really like Jason Simpson before he moved back to B’ham.
That was Spann's tag team partner on 4/27/11, no?
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