[Travel] Weather thread

[Albion my Albion]

What's the worst weather you have experienced?

1 dead in NW Indiana as strong storms rip through Chicago area, downing trees and damaging homes

A semi driver was killed in Valparaiso as strong winds moved through the area, knocking out power for thousands, officials said. The storms uprooted trees, downed power lines, and damaged several homes, splitting one in half in Roselawn.

abc7chicago.com

Winds reached 80 mph in Valparaiso, 74 mph in Gary, 70 mph in Kouts, 60 mph in Rensselaer, 52 mph in Lansing and 43 mph at Midway.

Gary is the home town of Michael Jackson.

 

[Whoislloydy]

2021 in the Pacific North West was pretty crazy.

In June, we were hit with an unprecedented heatwave with temperatures hitting 49.6°C (121°F) in the city, and up to 55°C (131°F) in the interior. The wildfires that season were crazy, an estimated 10,000 square kilometers were lost in BC alone to fires, including many historic towns completely wiped off the face of the earth apart from some remaining stone chimneys and twisted metal cars.

Then four months later, we were hit with floods which cut Vancouver off from the rest of Canada. We had 277mm (11inch) of rain fall in 24 hours.

 

[Justice]

Mental snow in Switzerland waist deep after a night of snow fall.

 

[papachris]

When I lived in the UK it has to be the great storm October 1987.
My first full winter (2021) in Estonia we had waist deep snow on a few occasions. Temperatures down to -28c and we didn't see the ground from mid November until late March

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

In the train queue for a lifetime after losing to AEK in cataclysmic rain followed by an 8 hour wait at Gatwick for a morning flight

 

[Peteinblack]

What's the worst weather you have experienced?

1 dead in NW Indiana as strong storms rip through Chicago area, downing trees and damaging homes

A semi driver was killed in Valparaiso as strong winds moved through the area, knocking out power for thousands, officials said. The storms uprooted trees, downed power lines, and damaged several homes, splitting one in half in Roselawn.

abc7chicago.com

Winds reached 80 mph in Valparaiso, 74 mph in Gary, 70 mph in Kouts, 60 mph in Rensselaer, 52 mph in Lansing and 43 mph at Midway.

Gary is the home town of Michael Jackson.

So when he was visiting, did people say "Michael's in Gary again."

 

[RandyWanger]

Coldest was -30c with a windchill making it feel like -40c in Canada. But I'd rather be there in that weather than when I was in London on that +40c day we had 2 or 3 summers ago

 

[The Clamp]

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

 

[portlock seagull]

41 degrees here, for several days. Only time ever experienced climate-anxiety, and won’t be the last probably. Horrific. Scary.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

'87

 

[Albion my Albion]

So when he was visiting, did people say "Michael's in Gary again."

In truth most of the Jackson family will tell you Michael didn't enjoy his time in Indiana mostly due to his father, Joe Jackson, may they both R.I.P. There weren't a lot of visits. Most of the visits were to old friends of the older Jackson children.

The Twisted Legacy of the Stage Dad Joe Jackson

What to make of this troubled, inscrutable man, whose children made such beautiful records?

www.newyorker.com

 

[juliant]

Dubai 45-50 degrees. Just too dam hot for me

 

[Nottseagull]

Is a 'semi' a partly automatic vehicle?

52mph winds wouldn't be particularly abnormal for Lancing, let alone Lansing.