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Post by jeepers on Aug 5, 2020 4:32:08 GMT -6
Beruit. Gee whiz, I just ‘forgot’ about ... a warehouse of ammonium nitrate? How does that happen? Something is seriously wrong with this story.
Weather ... glorious. I just woke up feeling chilly. Considering a road trip north soon. Don’t care if I’m sitting on a rock in the middle of nowhere, I’d like a week of this!
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Post by amstilost on Aug 5, 2020 5:37:30 GMT -6
I am showing and feeling a wonderful 54* 7 miles west of De Soto.
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Post by amstilost on Aug 5, 2020 6:06:32 GMT -6
Horrible devastation and situation in Beruit. Hopefully, the plain 'truth' is found out as to the exact cause and the responsibility falls on those actually responsible.
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Post by showtime - Marissa on Aug 5, 2020 6:31:13 GMT -6
Low of 53 amazing degrees this morning!
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Post by Chris Higgins on Aug 5, 2020 6:39:18 GMT -6
Well... by the light of a new day... that's a pretty darn big hole in the ground that I didn't see in any of the pictures from yesterday. I pulled this from a facebook page... not sure of the original source. Simply unbelievable.
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Post by Snowman99 on Aug 5, 2020 6:58:35 GMT -6
Yeah. Huge hole and explosion. Saying there's no comparison to China is nonsense. Hundreds are missing. Bad situation.
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Post by WEAXWATCHER on Aug 5, 2020 7:43:07 GMT -6
Tianjin was worse. 173 dead, 104 of which were fire fighters. The second explosion was large enough to be photographed by a Japanese weather satellite and is estimated to have involved 800 tones of ammonium nitrate. That estimate was determined using the relative effectiveness factor (lethality radius) and the crater size. I am unable to find any measurements of the size of the crater left. They said it filled with 40 thousand tones of highly toxic water within a day. I am not trying to downplay this tragedy in Beirut. Until we have the actual facts, comparing it to anything is nonsense. I've included a pic of the crater in Tianjin.
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Post by showtime - Marissa on Aug 5, 2020 7:48:35 GMT -6
They both are awful.....unbelievable
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Aug 5, 2020 8:16:05 GMT -6
A close friend's wife has family in Beirut and said they felt the blast and described it as "a big wind"...unreal destruction. Basically equivalent to an atomic bomb without the intense heat(obviously the core is still super hot) and radiation.
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Post by unclesam6 on Aug 5, 2020 9:08:24 GMT -6
August 20th GOM storm on the 18z/00z/06z GFS
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Post by Chris Higgins on Aug 5, 2020 9:32:07 GMT -6
Tianjin was worse. 173 dead, 104 of which were fire fighters. The second explosion was large enough to be photographed by a Japanese weather satellite and is estimated to have involved 800 tones of ammonium nitrate. That estimate was determined using the relative effectiveness factor (lethality radius) and the crater size. I am unable to find any measurements of the size of the crater left. They said it filled with 40 thousand tones of highly toxic water within a day. I am not trying to downplay this tragedy in Beirut. Until we have the actual facts, comparing it to anything is nonsense. I've included a pic of the crater in Tianjin. I just posted that picture to show the hole... which was not apparent in any pictures I saw yesterday. They were both really big and really bad. I keep thinking about what something like that would do in STL...hard to comprehend that much destruction.
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Post by Snowman99 on Aug 5, 2020 13:40:25 GMT -6
Death toll up to 135. Measured 3.3 as an earthquake. Felt over 200 miles away. I couldn't imagine that.
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Post by jmg378s on Aug 5, 2020 15:01:59 GMT -6
Lebanon says 2750 metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate were stored there. No idea how much of that explosively detonated (probably a lot less?). Word is it had been stored there without proper precautions for 6 years. Also according to the Wikipedia page 800 tonnes of that stuff exploded at Tianjin.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Aug 5, 2020 15:18:37 GMT -6
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Post by Snowman99 on Aug 5, 2020 15:32:55 GMT -6
CraZy
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Post by jmg378s on Aug 5, 2020 16:27:43 GMT -6
Hmm, yeah that looks a bit sketchy...
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Post by Snowman99 on Aug 5, 2020 16:58:27 GMT -6
Hmm, yeah that looks a bit sketchy... Why? that's how I store my nitrate.
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Post by cozpregon on Aug 5, 2020 18:26:06 GMT -6
I get mine from Nitrates or us
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Post by Lovableweatherguy TROY,MO on Aug 5, 2020 18:52:24 GMT -6
Ya some videos I've been watching are just unreal! So scary and definitely sad!
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Post by jmg378s on Aug 5, 2020 19:05:16 GMT -6
Hmm, yeah that looks a bit sketchy... Why? that's how I store my nitrate. It's cool, that's how I store my tactical nukes.
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Post by jmg378s on Aug 5, 2020 19:06:29 GMT -6
Ya some videos I've been watching are just unreal! So scary and definitely sad! I know. Lots of videos of people videoing from afar and getting knocked down from the pressure wave. Very scary.
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Post by bdgwx on Aug 5, 2020 19:43:17 GMT -6
So I've been working essentially non-stop for the last couple of days so I'm just now hearing about the explosion. I saw a few videos...wow!
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Post by bdgwx on Aug 5, 2020 19:47:21 GMT -6
August 20th GOM storm on the 18z/00z/06z GFS That is 9 consecutive runs it has shown up on. Based only on my personal experience it does seem like there is reasonable long range skill in tropical cyclogenesis from the GFS especially when we see consistency like this.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Aug 6, 2020 9:42:51 GMT -6
New NOAA Atlantic Hurricane season outlook is out and it’s calling for a very active season.
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Post by STGOutdoors on Aug 6, 2020 10:07:17 GMT -6
Could be a fairly unsettled weekend with occasional rain and storm chances.
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Post by jmg378s on Aug 6, 2020 11:03:45 GMT -6
Klotzbach runs the tropical climatology program over there at CSU. In line with NOAA his group had previously updated their forecast to 24 named storms, 12 hurricanes, and 5 majors.
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Post by bdgwx on Aug 6, 2020 13:58:30 GMT -6
This is only tangentially related to weather. Ameren is installing the new smart meters in the St. Charles County area right now. I got mine about a week ago. It's pretty cool because you can download a csv file with your usage in 15-min increments. Supposedly they're going to add new rate schedules with on-peak and off-peak separated that you can opt into if you want.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Aug 6, 2020 15:36:48 GMT -6
Could be a fairly unsettled weekend with occasional rain and storm chances. Just getting a look at models for the first time in several days. Euro has an MCS train setting up over the area this weekend into next week
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Post by STGOutdoors on Aug 7, 2020 9:05:30 GMT -6
3km Nam is pretty active with several storm complexes in play through the weekend. The one today is likely to stay west.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Aug 7, 2020 10:18:15 GMT -6
Some big time CAPE showing up on the models early next week
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