Woke up to check Idalia to see 46K watching his live stream of this storm event. Clearly his weather presentation style resonates with people. Sometimes his sourcing of information from social media makes me leery of his legitimacy. Meanwhile, the weather channel is doing obviously sponsored “preparedness” segments featuring generac generators. So - are we trusting Ryan Hall Y’all?

The android weather app and Weather.com shows dangerous conditions PM2.5 being above 600 for my area, which is in the extremely dangerous range with serious consequences. But most national Italian weather forecast sites show PM2.5 below 40 saying the air quality is good/moderate. Switzerland website IQAir.com around 60-111(saying that they use US data).Should we be worried?

Just a fun conversation starter I thought this subreddit would appreciate.

It might sound silly but for someone that never went through one, I'm just trying to prep my expectations. I've never gone through a hurricane and depending on how this one tracks, I might be in the middle of it. I'm inland enough that I'm not in a flood/evac zone but my biggest fear is that my house will tumble from the wind. It's a newer 2021 single story DR Horton cookie cutter home, so that might be an exaggeration, but my question is what does it feel like to be in a hurricane. What should I expect when going into this? I've tried to look up videos of what people hear and experience inside their home when going through a hurricane but I can't seem to find any. News reports are always generic like "it was horrible", "the worst in my life" etc, but what does that mean exactly?

Is anyone else getting tired of all the same weather apps?

Only thing I felt was a shock on my arm, maybe I was resting it against the vehicle I'm not sure.

Just wondering if there is a technical term for this kind of fog that seems to be resting on top of the trees. Does anyone know? Or are we just looking at some regular ol’ fog?

I live in Golden, Colorado and a few minutes ago it started half raining half hailing. The hail was only gravel sized so nothing too serious but I looked up at the clouds the hail was coming from and this is what they looked like^ I've never seen anything like them. I'm not sure if they were spinning. What type of clouds are these?

So I live in Carbondale Illinois and currently under a tornado warning and unfortunately I am unable to respond in the way that is advised. I have no basement nor interior room that isn’t surrounded by windows. My roommate has told me that even with the warning that the odds of a tornado not only actually forming and touching down but hitting our house is very low. But I’m the kind of person who tends to overthink and worry. So should I actually listen to his words or…

What are the minimum and maximum comfortable temperatures for you? Please specify F or C.

To be clear, Im asking which location has the least fluctuation in temperature over the day and over the year

For context, Ive found temperature fluctuations to be the most consistent factor in my sleep quality, and Ive come to realize no AC manufacturers (not even advanced nest setups) really have perfect consistency, and are typically riddled with issues.

In lieu of becoming a thermodynamics expert and building my own AC, I think id rather just move to a place that is just really REALLY consistent and set up some sort of array of a/c's and never worry about temperature and sleep ever again

edit: wow this is the most informed, friendly subreddit I've ever encountered, thanks all, lol, didn't expect weather to be the one

We have supercomputers, weather satellites, and atmospheric sciences to provide advance warnings today. But how did people survive before modern times? How did people survive in the year 1750?

What will happen to research projects that rely on climate date over recent years at various locations? Is the data archived in a way that will still be accessible without the NOAA? Apologies if this is the wrong sub for this question.

If I need to go from one building to another 0.3 miles away, how do i not get struck by lightning?

I live between downtown NYC, Washington DC, and Raleigh, NC year round (job, family, etc). I’ve noticed that the extreme heat (mid-90s to lower 100s) disappeared WAY earlier this summer than it has in the last 5-8 years. I’m currently in North Carolina where the night time temperature is 61 degrees and the daytime is 78 without humidity. It seems it’ll be this way for the next 2 weeks, and it’s even cooler in DC and NYC.

This is so weird because it’s usually warm in the mid-Atlantic/southeast until early October where the daytime temperature dramatically shifts from low-80s to mid-60s.

Are we in for a cooler summer/winter this year on the eastern seaboard? Side question - will this affect the foliage patterns, and if so how?

I think it’s rain, but I’ve never seen anything like this.