Floydbuster

I'm in the Akron area, so you probably have a much higher chance than me. I'm still skeptical though. I think the highest risk would probably be between Chillicothe-Zanesville-Wheeling and south. Infact, I think West Virginia may wanna keep an eye if anything.

Here it comes already and this is just slow moving round one.

I'm surprised they went with such a high risk. There could be alot of rainfall throughout the day Thursday helping to lower instability in the region, similar to last week. Thankfully, this is much less threatening than last week, however, the focus will be more on flooding rainfall threats. The NWS says the severe risk is highly dependent on lingering rain and clouds through the day. I think this has a high bust potential.

Rainfall seems like the biggest threat Thursday, and unless I'm mistaken, the area of Central Eastern Ohio in that region west of Pittsburgh has been drenched in the last few weeks.

That's what I wondered too. It really wasn't that dark.

The temperature drop near Stow, OH was noticeable. Really shows how something blocking the sun (Super volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts) can really affect the temperature and fast. I was disappointed that it didn't get darker, and I disliked the douches blowing off fireworks.

It was a very cool to see and experience. The temperature drop was noticeable, although for such totality I was kind of surprised it didn't get darker than it did. Nevertheless, it was great to see.

Bonnie 1998 was also close.

Unless my math is wrong, wasn't Fran the last major hurricane to make landfall in North Carolina?

Good grief.

Ironically, I turn to hurricanes in Summer and Fall to avoid the politics.

When you see "absurdly dangerous" for Ohio, the general public gets terrified and expects nothing less than several F5 twisters roaring across Columbus.

I literally saw "pray for Columbus" and "Central Ohio needs underground shelters ready" type stuff. It even scared me a little and I live near Cleveland/Akron!

Do you think there was any particular reason why weather twitter went so crazy hype with this event? What made this one so insanely hyped? Was it the 50th anniversary of Xenia? Was it that these kids have gone so long without chasing they were wishing?

I'm not trying to cast any aspersions. I felt kind of bad for the relentless ripping the NWS took on social media. This was always more of an event for Kentucky and only extreme SW Ohio. To be honest, West Virginia seems to have been hit harder than any other place, and there was little focus. Was it because all the "storm chasers" live in Central Ohio? They didn't want to "chase" into rougher Appalachian terrain? Other than a few scary model runs on Mon morning, there shouldn't have been such cause for alarm in Central Ohio. I'm not downplaying the damage that we've seen and the tornados that have occurred, but I'm being honest, the twitter feed acted like the tornadoes would be F4 stovepipes ripping through Central Ohio in a 1974-type outbreak. I think Monday April 1st was some of the most insane weather/storm chaser hype I've ever seen on social media. Maybe these kids were just so overeager to chase they inflated it in their own mind?

It's hard to find objectivity on social media when a meteorologist says, "Looks like a slow recovery time, looking less intense" and someone responds "Sun is out now! LOOK OUT! Recovery incoming!" Or when they say "I think Zanesville, OH will be ground zero" and then look at their account and find out they live near Zanesville. That's what is nice about living in Ohio and being a hurricane guy. I have no vested interest in hurricanes. When I live in Cleveland/Akron, what the hell do I care if a hurricane makes landfall in Tampico, MX vs Veracruz, MX? I am able to be objective.

Well other than the early Monday morning HRRR and NAM nightmares showing a possible big outbreak *perhaps* getting to Central Ohio, there was always the likelihood that it would be worse down near the Ohio River and Kentucky. When the moderate risk was held over that area, there was a massive social media twitter meltdown among the amateur storm chaser nerds. They were attacking some forecaster named Broyles or something and going nuts. Then you had the long discussions and a tardy issuance of the moderate risk Mon afternoon smack dab over Central Ohio, way too far north without more model run indicators. By Monday evening, it was obvious that should be moved southwest, which it eventually was. I know this seems unlikely, but is there a chance that the moderate risk was issued out of pressure from the social media freakout and the overperformance of the March Western Ohio tornado event?

Northern Ohio looking much lower risk.

A Kentucky event?

Well atleast you're a bit closer to the action. Imagine having people freakout who live closer to Erie than Cincinnati.

Still wind chill at 49° with rain here in NE Ohio.

I'm trying to sift through wishcasters and forecasters on Twitter. Forecasters seem to think the moisture is lacking and the recovery time isn't as long as it could have been. Wishcasters seem to think it's going to be the 1974 Super Outbreak. Unfortunately, they're scaring the heck out of people. Literally a PHD tries to say it could be sporadically nasty, and then we get people talking about 1974.

We'll see how the recovery goes out west. Bloomington, Cincinnati, Louisville, Frankfurt seem most in the line of fire.