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joedecker:
have i seen:
a sandstorm: no.
a drought: yes
a heat wave: yes
dewfall above 86 F (30 C): i'm pretty sure, yeah.
a chinook: no.
a forest fire: no, just prairie burns
a dust storm: yes, and wee little dust devils.
a thunderstorm: mmm, yes.
a lightning strike: not within 100 feet. and that was plenty painful... my ears are still ringing, it seems.
ball lightning: yes.
a flood: yes
a flash flood: yes
a thundersnow storm: yes
a hailstorm: yes
an ice storm: yes
a blizzard: yep
"tree-cracking cold": no, but i've seen healthy trees felled within the first half hour of an ice storm.... and i've experienced vinyl-cracking cold.
a lake frozen hard enough to walk on or drive on: yes
ice out (ice breakup) in the spring: yes
an iceberg calving: no
a tornado: yes
a blowdown: (powerful straightline winds that can topple part of a forest): no, but i've seen the results of one.
a typhoon: no
a hurricane: no
a waterspout: no
St. Elmo's fire: yes
a squall: yes
a full gale: yes
seiche: no
a tsunami: no
an earthquake: yeah, but i'm pretty sure the minor tremors one feels a few times a year in the eastern half of the states don't count. ;)
a sinkhole opening: yes, but i grew up in swampland. ;)
a landslide: no.
an avalanche: no
mudslide: no
a volcanic eruption: no
an ash fall: no
a lava flow: no
pyroclastic flow: no
jokulhlaup: no
a meteor strike: no, but i've seen shadowcasters.
intense fog: yes, so intense, i couldn't see my feet, nor my hand held out a foot.
the midnight sun: well, it was almost twilight around midnight when i was in st. petersburg one april.
the noon moon: i doubt seeing the moon in daylight counts. ;)
sundogs: no.
northern lights: no :( though if it stays clear tonight, i might have half a chance.
snow glittering in the night like diamonds: yes
a double rainbow: yes
a triple rainbow: yes
other stuff i've seen. green flash, zodiacal glow, wil o'th'wisp, total solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, various astronomical delights, moonbow, venus during daylight, starlight capable of casting shadows, miniature dirt devils (6-8' tall) on clear days.l
joedecker:have i seen:
a sandstorm: no.
a drought: yes
a heat wave: yes
dewfall above 86 F (30 C): i'm pretty sure, yeah.
a chinook: no.
a forest fire: no, just prairie burns
a dust storm: yes, and wee little dust devils.
a thunderstorm: mmm, yes.
a lightning strike: not within 100 feet. and that was plenty painful... my ears are still ringing, it seems.
ball lightning: yes.
a flood: yes
a flash flood: yes
a thundersnow storm: yes
a hailstorm: yes
an ice storm: yes
a blizzard: yep
"tree-cracking cold": no, but i've seen healthy trees felled within the first half hour of an ice storm.... and i've experienced vinyl-cracking cold.
a lake frozen hard enough to walk on or drive on: yes
ice out (ice breakup) in the spring: yes
an iceberg calving: no
a tornado: yes
a blowdown: (powerful straightline winds that can topple part of a forest): no, but i've seen the results of one.
a typhoon: no
a hurricane: no
a waterspout: no
St. Elmo's fire: yes
a squall: yes
a full gale: yes
seiche: no
a tsunami: no
an earthquake: yeah, but i'm pretty sure the minor tremors one feels a few times a year in the eastern half of the states don't count. ;)
a sinkhole opening: yes, but i grew up in swampland. ;)
a landslide: no.
an avalanche: no
mudslide: no
a volcanic eruption: no
an ash fall: no
a lava flow: no
pyroclastic flow: no
jokulhlaup: no
a meteor strike: no, but i've seen shadowcasters.
intense fog: yes, so intense, i couldn't see my feet, nor my hand held out a foot.
the midnight sun: well, it was almost twilight around midnight when i was in st. petersburg one april.
the noon moon: i doubt seeing the moon in daylight counts. ;)
sundogs: no.
northern lights: no :( though if it stays clear tonight, i might have half a chance.
snow glittering in the night like diamonds: yes
a double rainbow: yes
a triple rainbow: yes
other stuff i've seen. green flash, zodiacal glow, wil o'th'wisp, total solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, various astronomical delights, moonbow, venus during daylight, starlight capable of casting shadows, miniature dirt devils (6-8' tall) on clear days.l
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Date: 2002-07-28 05:33 pm (UTC)And are you SURE you haven't seen a sundog?? After my high school bio teacher pointed one out to the class, I thought "so *THAT* is what you call that funky-kewl thing!!!" I bet you have seen several, but just don't realize it.
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and no, i've never seen a sundog. i've seen parhelic circles, but never any sundogs.
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Date: 2002-07-28 07:59 pm (UTC)Of the ones you haven't seen:
* I have seen a volcanic eruption, though it was on an offshore island quite a way away.
* I've seen landslides and avalanches - New Zealand has big rain-trapping alps, so falling water geographical effects aren't really that uncommon. They occasionally trigger avalanches near the ski fields for safety purposes.
* Once saw waterspout when we were driving up the coast on holiday. We don't get tornadoish effects here often at all, though. Well, not bigger than a dust devil - we get lots of that kind of thing in some areas, though - the Desert Road area especially, I think.
* I've seen a couple of small forest fires - by small, I mean less than about 20 acres or so. If we get lots of Föhn-effect norwesterlies over summer, the trees get tinder dry.
* I haven't seen northern lights, but I have seen the good ol' Aurora Australis a couple of times. Difficult to see from my house because I'm in a north-facing valley against the Port Hills (and some of those hills have names that start with "Mount" - New Zealanders seem to like understatement, sometimes).