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Old 03-03-2014, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Originally Posted by bencronin04 View Post
Actually according to the meteorologist there was hail yesterday as well.
Maybe I do know what I'm talking about after all.
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Old 03-03-2014, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Funky town
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I heard this warning saying that people shouldn't set their heater to temperatures above 68 tomorrow. There will be a massive overload on the electric system and many people might experience power outages if everyone pushes their heater to the limit.
Not to mention the electric bill this winter will be baaadddd for people with electric heat...
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Old 03-03-2014, 02:35 PM
 
Location: High Cotton
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Actually according to the meteorologist there was hail yesterday as well.
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They were reporting hail in Oklahoma yesterday, too!
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I cannot imagine a meteorologist would refer to what came down yesterday in the DFW area as 'hail'. It was SLEET - a cold weather phenomena. The weather conditions yesterday were nowhere close to being right for hail, because for it to hail there must be completely different atmospheric conditions.
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Old 03-04-2014, 07:15 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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I cannot imagine a meteorologist would refer to what came down yesterday in the DFW area as 'hail'. It was SLEET - a cold weather phenomena. The weather conditions yesterday were nowhere close to being right for hail, because for it to hail there must be completely different atmospheric conditions.
I'm sorry but I think I'll listen to multiple meteorologist vs. some wanna be weather fanatic on the internet.
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Old 03-05-2014, 06:23 PM
 
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Not to mention the electric bill this winter will be baaadddd for people with electric heat...
And people with swimming pools. I've run my pump much more than I usually do in the summer.
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Old 04-03-2014, 04:56 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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Tornado warning issued for the Krum/Denton area; take shelter if you haven't already.

This cell is supposed to be moving north/northeast over the next 40 minutes or so. The areas north of 380 in Denton and Collin counties are next.

Please keep an eye on the weather tonight, guys.
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Old 04-03-2014, 06:37 PM
 
Location: Funky town
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Default Lightning

It is probably a dumb question but what do houses have here that protects them from lightning? Usually in tall buildings there are lightning rod that run to the ground to absorb a strike. Curious!
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Old 04-03-2014, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Aurora, CO
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It is probably a dumb question but what do houses have here that protects them from lightning? Usually in tall buildings there are lightning rod that run to the ground to absorb a strike. Curious!
Most houses have nothing to protect them from lightning strikes.
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Old 04-03-2014, 07:09 PM
 
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You can install a lightning rod on your house. When I lived in Frisco, we had a lightning rod installed, and lightning actually struck it once! Good thing we had it!
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Old 04-03-2014, 07:12 PM
 
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I'm in north Plano, and we got some heavy rain and hail for about five minutes. Some of the hail was quarter sized. No damage to anything, as far as I can tell.
I was hoping for a little more rain, but hopefully we will get some more rain before the night ends.
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