STORMS!

[BigTruck]

Today marks the 4th STORM to hit us in 4 days.  I am in California, so that should tell you something.  It has been scattered showers for 4 days now.  But the local news keeps reporting it as STORMS!!!  Where I come from in Michigan, storms consist of thunder, lightning, hail, and high winds.  Either that or significant snow and wind.  Here, yeah we had one night of 50mph gusts and rain, but the other three days, it has just rained off and on, but they are STORMS!!! according to the weather report here.

I posted this so all of you living in areas that actually get STORMS can laugh.  Meanwhile I will continue to quiver in fear with my survival gear as it sprinkles an inch of precipitation outside during this vicious STORM.   ::)

[Webb]

It's bad enough to have screwed up PGA Tour tournaments 2 weeks ago in San Diego and this week in Los Angeles.

[TacitBlue]

We get actual storms here, but the weather people on the news still manage to blow them out of proportion. My Dad always makes fun of them and the people who buy into it by saying that "It's a killer storm of Biblical proportions! " 

[patchz]

Thanks for the chuckle Justin. 

Maybe they are just fearful of mud slides beginning.

[BigTruck]

It's bad enough to have screwed up PGA Tour tournaments 2 weeks ago in San Diego and this week in Los Angeles.

That's because it never rains.  They don't know how to deal with it.  A thirty minute shower can kill an entire day here in this state.  It's amazing.  I remember last year after our first rainfall of the season in the Bay Area we had 300+ accidents in one day.

Maybe that's why they call them storms here...it's not the weather, it's the natives...

[jrom]

We lived in the northwest for a while. A major thunderstorm was when there were more than two claps of thunder. We had just moved there from Texas, so we had to laugh.

[Romulus111VADT]

It's bad enough to have screwed up PGA Tour tournaments 2 weeks ago in San Diego and this week in Los Angeles.

That's because it never rains.

[eno]

It's getting the same here in the UK ......... we get severe weather warnings if the rain might last all day or if the wind blows at more than 5mph.
Stuff that in the past everyone just got on with because "that's the British weather" seems to be blown out of all proportion, so that when anything major does happen people ignore the warnings and chaos ensues.

[beaky]

It's peculiar... the whole county can go up in flames every fall when the brush is bone dry and the winds pick up, and those folks take it in stride. But a little rain freaks them out.   ::)

If it ever snows there, you'd better lock yourself and your family in the house... 

[BrandonF]

We've got rainstorms coming into San Diego tonight.  [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]

[U4EA]

[quote]We've got rainstorms coming into San Diego tonight.

[patchz]

I would be happy to let you have this tornado watch and thunder storms we are having.

[BigTruck]

I would take them Larry.  67F and sunny here, yet another "STORM" is due to arrive tomorrow (chance of showers)

I am so tired of weather that doesn't change.  I miss thunderstorms and severe watches, it gives the day a little edge to it.

[BigTruck]

Well, we actually got a storm today, to include a twister and a water spout.  Very strange for the Bay area!

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/

[patchz]

I saw that! Got some snow in the mountains too.