Jazzmoose Posted January 7, 2008 Report Posted January 7, 2008 Unbelievable. I'm still having a hard time taking all this in. I remember some heavy winds back in the winter of '82/'83, but other than that, I don't remember any severe weather (unless you lived in the hills, of course) the whole time I lived out there. At least nothing like this. Wow. Quote
BruceH Posted January 7, 2008 Report Posted January 7, 2008 Unbelievable. I'm still having a hard time taking all this in. I remember some heavy winds back in the winter of '82/'83, but other than that, I don't remember any severe weather (unless you lived in the hills, of course) the whole time I lived out there. At least nothing like this. Wow. There was a very windy storm in '95 that knocked down trees and damaged a lot of signs, at least in SF. When they get to a certain level, they should call these storms what they are---typhoons. Quote
Big Wheel Posted January 7, 2008 Report Posted January 7, 2008 (edited) Unbelievable. I'm still having a hard time taking all this in. I remember some heavy winds back in the winter of '82/'83, but other than that, I don't remember any severe weather (unless you lived in the hills, of course) the whole time I lived out there. At least nothing like this. Wow. There was a very windy storm in '95 that knocked down trees and damaged a lot of signs, at least in SF. When they get to a certain level, they should call these storms what they are---typhoons. Except they aren't typhoons. A typhoon or hurricane forms in the tropics in warm water and rotates around a well-defined center that eventually becomes an eye if the storm gets strong enough. What we had was just a big nasty winter storm - comparable to a nor'easter on the East Coast. 70mph gusts are not fun, but they don't even reach to the level of a category 1 hurricane (which has to have sustained winds - not gusts - of >74mph to even be called a hurricane). Edited January 7, 2008 by Big Wheel Quote
BruceH Posted January 7, 2008 Report Posted January 7, 2008 Fair enough, but in '95 we had winds of up to 100mph, and in Friday's storm we had winds up to 150mph around Lake Tahoe. They not be rotating around a well-defined center, but they're pretty nasty. I don't remember a nor'easter with 150mph winds. Quote
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