Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1245 on: March 18, 2026, 09:03:50 PM » Author: suzukir122
@dor123, does your breathing get effected during sandstorms? Do you encounter any difficulty breathing? I imagine I probably would, especially since I personally have asthma.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1246 on: March 18, 2026, 11:41:05 PM » Author: dor123
@suzukir122: My breathing didn't got affected.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1247 on: March 20, 2026, 09:10:40 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: suzukir122 I imagine I probably would, especially since I personally have asthma. Yep if you have asthma, you deff wouldn't want to go out in something like that. With stuff like dust-storms, sometimes they'll even put in the storm-warning text that people with sensitive breathing conditions like that (plus young children & elderly) should avoid going outdoors if they can.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1248 on: March 20, 2026, 09:25:16 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Not 'severe' weather here, but... We're in a heatwave right now. Highs in the 80's the past few days, and forecast shows a high of 91 for tomorrow. (today it got to atleast 82, & humidity of 5%) This is far above "normal" for here in March. (normal is mid 60's) Down in Denver they set not only a new high for the day (both today & yesterday), but a new highest ever temp for March as a whole. & another new record is expected tomorrow.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1249 on: March 20, 2026, 10:34:12 PM » Author: dor123
There was a huge rainfall several mins ago. And while I'm sleep in my room at my father home, suddenly there was a huge bright white flash outside, and the RCD/GFCI of my father tripped.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1250 on: March 20, 2026, 11:17:52 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: dor123 There was a huge rainfall several mins ago. I would love to have a good heavy rain here (or even better a good snowstorm - that would be more normal this time of year). Quote And while I'm sleep in my room at my father home, suddenly there was a huge bright white flash outside, and the RCD/GFCI of my father tripped. Lightning I would assume? Or maybe a missile? Whatever it was, stay safe out there.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1251 on: March 20, 2026, 11:24:02 PM » Author: dor123
Missile it wasn't. There was no thunder after the flash. Also: All of the surge protectors and electronics in my father home are fine. No damage occur. Also: We have strong winds.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1252 on: March 20, 2026, 11:34:36 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Glad that it wasn't a missile. A close lightning strike can cause weird things to happen, like a RCD/GFCI to trip (without causing any damage) just from the burst of electromagnetic energy... but for that it would have been close enough to hear thunder. Maybe a transformer blew or powerline came down nearby? Either of those would cause a huge flash. And could easily cause noise/interruption on the lines.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1253 on: March 20, 2026, 11:46:14 PM » Author: dor123
There are no powerlines near my father balcony (Where the flash occur), and the lanterns didn't affected, only my father home affected. If this would be a transformer or a power line, we should have a power outage, not RCD/GFCI tripping.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1254 on: March 21, 2026, 12:22:07 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Lines are underground where I'm at, but I can say this: If a line comes down (lets just say in a storm as an example), the flash is *bright*, you can easily see it from a mile away at night! - I've witnessed it in person. If its not the line supplying your area, obviously you won't be affected by an outage. Where I'm at a transformer powers 8 to 10 individual houses, if one of those transformers goes out(they have protection to shut down rather than explode(something not all tranformers have)), just that small group of houses will be affected with an outage, not the whole neighborhood. (and same type of thing for apartments, depending on how big the building is, each building might have its own transformer). And something like that could send an inductive kick down the lines (or simply a burst of 'noise' on the line). That could be enough to RCD/GFCI if its a bit sensitive.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1255 on: March 21, 2026, 02:40:18 AM » Author: Cole D.
It’s mostly been back to the 70s and 80s for highs here. I was wondering if we’d have any further cold fronts this spring, and I was doubting we would. But we did get another this week. Tuesday evening it started to thunder and blow really hard with a very dark sky and then started raining all evening, which we really needed. That was one of the more chaotic cold fronts we’ve had in a while. The temp did drop down again to lows in the 40s and highs in the 70s again the rest of tgis week.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1256 on: March 21, 2026, 08:08:45 AM » Author: suzukir122
Looks like we'll be hitting the 80's here tomorrow, close to the mid 80's... with the threat of storms tomorrow as well. Severe weather threat possible. Then Monday it'll only be 48 degrees, probably cold night Monday night as well but I forget. Sheesh man, the temperature swings...
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1257 on: March 22, 2026, 12:20:20 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
High of 85 (with 5% humidity) here today. A coldfront is on the way for tonight which will drop temps back into the 60's tomorrow.
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	Re: Severe weather never sleeps! « Reply #1258 on: March 22, 2026, 09:19:18 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Ugly stuff is coming my way !
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