After yesterday’s tornado-ripe thunderstorm passed over Decatur, I ventured outside to see if there was any damage. Fortunately, there was none. In fact, as is often the case after a storm front passes without doing damage, it was especially pleasant to be outside.
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I was pleased that Decatur suffered no damage, and it was a nice steady rain that helped my parched lawn.
I think Cherokee County was hit pretty hard. And this brings me to my question, since I know so little about weather. Oftentimes, as I watch a front move east toward Atlanta, it seems it does one of two things: breaks up as it hits the metro area, or moves north of the metro area.
Someone once told me that the city’s infrastructure (buildings, concrete etc.) creates a warm spot that tends to cause this phenomenon. Is this true?
Sounds like a reasonable explanation to someone with absolutely no meteorological expertise. However, I’d bet that the warming caused by the city’s infrastructure is secondary to the warming caused by the hot air emanating from the Capitol.
I think mother nature takes delight in smiting suburbanites.
‘Tis true.
Known as a heat island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_island
Thanks, Golazo. That answered my question!
But I did notice there was no reference to the hot air from the Capitol building, as Guess My Other Alias” mentioned. That seems to be a big miss on Wikipaedia’s part.
A tree fell on a house on Melrose. A BIG tree. Nobody was hurt, but back part of house was damaged.
Actually, I’ve heard this too, but the non-man made topography of the region was cited as a factor as well. Would love to hear the opinion of a meteorologist or climatologist. It has always seemed to me that metro Atlanta somehow avoids the really bad storms.
Do. Not. Tempt. Fate.
To atone for my fate-tempting, an opposite opinion ( but different season):
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/atlanta-ranked-among-most-1160490.html:
Although there was a tornado warning yesterday afternoon for Dekalb County, we didn’t hear the sirens from Glenwood or from Agnes Scott – we live close enough to hear both. Does anyone know why?
Can’t speak for Glenwood but the AS siren was definitely blaring. We’re 5 or 6 blocks away and it came through loud and clear.
I heard the one from Agnes Scott as well.
Not sure which one(s) we heard but the sirens were more than loud enough for us near Clairemont and Scott. The dogs were not amused.
Westchester siren was loud and clear in many directions. I know because I was driving home with one offspring who was getting increasingly worried. The smell of lightning (ozone?) was strong. Glad the drama was mostly just the siren and thunder and not much damage. Real sorry about damaged home on Melrose.
We heard Agnes Scott’s but Winnina Park’s was spinning and just crackling without the alarm.
I meant Winnona Park . . .
Does anybody know the address of the house on Melrose that got hit by the tree?
in the 200 block, even number side
Thank you.
We heard the sirens loud and clear as well (from inside the house in the Adair St area). A friend in East Atlanta also heard them from her front porch, so they were carrying- at least in that direction.
Wanted to hear from someone from the Tanyard Creek gardens in the flood plain behind Northern ..they got walloped by the rain, and not in a good ,”water is good for plants” way.
We heard the sirens in Glennlake. But I missed the “resume normal activities” all clear announcement the city uses. Please tell me they are still doing that. It cracks us up every time we hear that announcement. Besides my child doesn’t believe me when I say it’s all clear. We didn’t hear that announcement and she fell asleep in the closet/tornado shelter.
Yuk, yuk. How can we resume normal activities if we weren’t engaged in any? My household is rarely normal.