most extreme weather youve been in?

[ferretca18]

whats the most extreme weather any of you have been in?

mine is a Tornadoe in Waco, Texas 2 years ago..... more fun than i could shake a stick at:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy mother nature:thumbs:

[cherry1809]

Mines a bit lame really,was knocking down the old swimming pool at Burnham on sea,coldest i've ever been,balaclava's,thick coats,the works.Still bloody cold tho....great fun skinny dipping before they emptied the pool tho,shrivled maggot anyone?:wack:

[Leon]

blizzard in Val Torens.
Hail like golf balls in this country. Winds so high you had to stand at 45 degrees to stay on your feet.
Turbulance over Greece that had the plane dropping metres at a time.

not that interesting really.

[JB]

I was caught in a light shower once. Pretty scary I can tell you.

[Leon]

Originally posted by JB
I was caught in a golden shower once. Pretty scary I can tell you.

did it make your slippers slip?

[Papa Lazarou]

Not really "extreme" but damn weird... A mental electrical storm in Cardiff about 4 years ago. It lasted for 3-4 hours, just constant sheet lightning every few seconds, with regular, huge cracks of forked lightning. At its worst the rain was so heavy, I thought we were going to be flooded in just a matter of minutes. It was not ordinary rain, it was like tropical monsoon type stuff.. But it went away as quickly as it started.

Never seen anything like it before or since :)

[Rude Dog]

Honeymoon in Dominican Republic.
Flash floods, stuck in room making own entertainment:D

[MeLLoN Stu]

was in Dubai last year when it hit 52 degrees and was 100% humidity ( humidty regularly gets that high in summer :eek: )

bad weather i cant think of anything in particular, i live oop norf so we get what you class as monsoons on a seemingly daily basis :D
only place in the world where you can walk down the street and have fish swim by you :wack: ( aside of that place on sharky and george and the little mermaid :D )

[Jeedai]

Ahh - this is an easy one!

The Great Storm of October '87. It was the year that Michael fish infamously said that there wouldn't be a hurricane and that a storm from the coast of the USA wouldn't hit the UK!

I was walking home with my Gran and the force of the wind lifted me up, and my Gran had to hold me down to the ground!



PS: I was in Primary School!:)



More recently, have had some absolutley cracking thunderstorms in Sydney a few weeks ago. The lightning, instead of striking down, was striking from one part of the sky and going across horizontally so you literally had lightning cracking over your head! The lightning also hit a power sub-station so we had fireworks as well to complement the show!

[Goblinslayer]

Visiting Mrs Goblinslayers parents on the farm in Iowa one christmas. Blizzard for 4 days, 6 foot of snow and minus 35F in the windchill!!!!!!
Brrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mattpayne]

a few years ago... must be almost 5years! Snow boarding in the Argentier/le tour region, heaviest snowfall for a long time... most of Le tour was squashed... and the mountaind closed, each night 6 Ft of nice fresh snow! mental...

but a bit moody... walking through the town, piles of sticks where houses used to be, clothes and personal possesions scatterd in the snow :(

but the skiing was amazing :D

heres the news report... :(

http://www.pistehors.com/articles/avalanche/montroc.htm

http://mapage.noos.fr/pistehors/images/articles/montroc4.jpg

[AndyT]

When I was working in the Czech Republic, I drove up into a thunderstorm. The cloud cover was about 30ft above the ground, there were forks of lightning coming down everywhere, even splitting over the bonnet, and it was raining that hard there was about 6 inches of water on the road even though it was raised up from the fields. It lasted for about 5 miles (took about 30 mins to cover that distance), then I dropped down the other side of the hills.

One of the most exhilarating experiences of my life :cool:

[Cath]

Singapore has mental weather daily :wack: when I was there every lunch there was a thunderstorm. Some amazing sights with the fork lightning

The worst - when I was on a flight with my family to America.

Some how we ended up going through a bad thunderstorm. Something I normally love when stood on firm ground. But it was just unreal being on a plane and the plane being hit - the turbulence and the whole way the plane handled going through the storm. :wack:

At one point I was walking back with my bro (Lenagh) from the cockpit (been on visit :D like big kids).

On visiting the cockpit when the pilots realised we had unexpected weather u could see concern on their faces and asked us to go back to our seats.

The seat belt lights came on and we were just progressing from the cock pit into first class and trying to make our way back down to our seats.

Lenagh went first down the set of steps from first class to economy and i was next to walk down - you could see bottles of wine from the kitchen area rolling around - the weather was knocking the plane everywhere.

When i stepped to go down the stairs the plane dropped (god knows how many feet) the plane just went from beneath me and I fell down the stairs - at the same time i hit the bottom the plane regained height. Felt so disorientated

N through all this what was i doing - aye larfing my head off :D - while my brother was white as a sheet.:eek: Got back to our seats and enjoyed the rest of the roller coaster journey. :wack:

[Leon]

Originally posted by MeLLoN Stu
was in Dubai last year when it hit 52 degrees and was 100% humidity ( humidty regularly gets that high in summer :eek: )


100% humidity? Isn't that, like, being underwater?????

[Jimmyboy]

-20 ish skiing down mont blanc a couple of years ago :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :D :thumbs:

[Bean Bandit]

on my way home from UK:
Motorway visibility ~ 1 yard 'cause of blizzard like snow fall

[Sideways Danny]

walking down the main street in Key west (Florida) we had about 8 inches of rain in 15 minutes, and it was still roasting hot, could see lightning out to sea. Was truly spectacular, went back to our hotel room and sat on the balcony watching the storm

[2 Black Lines]

Warmest been in 48 deg in Turkey, could be bettered by some tho

Coldest minus 63, yes minus 63, no kidding! will post later on where and when.( just to keep you guessing)


Coldest in UK , skiing in minus 18 with a wind chill took this to minus 28, Glensee 1994.



wettest, Maldives in the rainy season 14" in 90 mins of constant monsoon, coming from West of Scotland i was used to this, kept wondering why the rooms had umbrellas in them!

[TAS]

I dont know whether this relates to actual weather, what about natural disasters?

I went (on work basis) to El Salvador (Central America) to help out the UK Embassy after the big earth quakes during earlier 2001..

During that time... I was involved in "many" aftershocks... and I can tell you that this is pretty scary stuff!!!!

I remember I was lying on my hotel bed (5th floor) when everything started shaking... the pictures were falling off the walls... I looked outside and saw everyone gathering at the entrance.. I was too scared to leave the hotel room.

this aftershock lasted about 15-20 seconds... but it felt like it lasted for ages....

and its not like you can say.... "get me off this ride" now is it.

I would love to see a Tornado tho.

[tDR]

Out here, it's well known as a bit of a UFO hotspot. I remember one night a few years ago, seeing all kinds of strange coloured flashes of light in the sky, and things I could have considered as UFO's, if I was that way inclined :wack:

[Cath]

Originally posted by tDR
Out here, it's well known as a bit of a UFO hotspot. I remember one night a few years ago, seeing all kinds of strange coloured flashes of light in the sky, and things I could have considered as UFO's, if I was that way inclined :wack:

I saw one a while back and posted on here but i just got it ripped out of me :D :(

[deej-79]

I was in a super typhoon once in Okinawa, I think the winds got up to 120mph.

Even the eye was crazy, and it was big enough to encircle the whole island.

[Sx Drifter]

last week i was in jamacia... boy was it hot :cool:

[tDR]

Originally posted by Feisty Red Head
I saw one a while back and posted on here but i just got it ripped out of me :D :(

Hmm, bloody non believers :rolleyes:

We're right in the middle of the hotspot out here you know :wack: I've looked it up in UFO / Sci-Fi books in the past.

/cue x-files music dooo dooo doo dooo do doooo

[MeLLoN Stu]

Originally posted by tDR
I've looked it up in UFO / Sci-Fi books in the past.


you sad sad man :D

[tDR]

Originally posted by MeLLoN Stu
you sad sad man :D

An I saw you on a photo on one of the pages, camped out in a field with a cult of people who believed their ancestors were coming back to get them that night :D

[ferretca18]

re tornadoe,
i was in a suit hire place to get me tux for the prom and t'was pretty bad weather wind/ lightnening and the like. when the conduit thingy outside got hit, no electricity, then the rain came in super heavy, that hard it started to bounce about 2 feet off the floor, then silly strong winds, emergency radio said about the tornadoe heading towards waco, funny really, all little kids started to cry and pary as the americans do... i was pressed up against the window and the manager told everyone to get to the centre of the store away from the windows, nope sorry, but i wanna see whats gonna kill me:wack: but the funnel lifted off just before the cinema complex over the highway from us:( all i got too see was the burnt out funnel/ wall cloud:( but i did see all the damage, and wooooooooooooooow:notworthy :notworthy :smash: id love to see it full on during the day tho.. and i went to see a state motorbike race in some town in the middle of nowhere, it got to about 52 degrees that day, i couldnt do n e thing it was that hot, and i got bitten by a fire ant!:cry: :furious: not fun....

[200sxcraig200sx]

Come on Stu, being a Sailor and all, I've been off South Africa on the biggest Tanker in the world where it dipped into the sea at the front and the waves were seriously skyscraper height !!

[Munky]

I got trapped in an avalanche on Highway 99 in the Rockies once. That was pretty sketchy as there ain't no cellphone signals, and you see a car going the other way about once every 6 hours, so we was pretty much on my own.

Fortunately it was the very end of the avalanche, the car was covered but not enough so I couldn't have gotten the sunroof open. I dread to think what would have happened had I not had the sunroof.

Fortunately my girlfriend at the time was rather chunky so she kept me fairly warm. My son was born about 9 months later....

[DarkLight]

1992 - Souther North Sea, 25ft yacht bound for Holland, Depart in nice calm force 3, good forcast calm seas etc etc. :thumbs:

50 miles out, Force 8-9, Waves about 15ft + and rising :eek:

Verdict - Entertaining :D :thumbs:


1991 - 100mph :rolleyes: on french motorway about 2 hours south of Paris, Wife says " that cloud looks nasty "

5 mins later ( still at 100mph) heavens open, water lands on road with sickening thud :wack: , visibility down to about 10 yards :eek: :eek: , 1+ inch of standing water on road surface :wack: , car in almost permenant aquaplane......

Managed to slow down & pluu off with out hitting anything.

The only time I've ever had to stop on a motorway for rain :notworthy


Dwayne

[2 Black Lines]

Originally posted by 2 black lines
Coldest minus 63, yes minus 63, no kidding! will post later on where and when.( just to keep you guessing)


!
Posted this yesterday,

48,000 ft up over the sahara, at night - sorry forgot to mention it was outside temp.

cloudless sky great view, you could literally see the curviture of the planet.