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Saturday's weather
« on: July 18, 2005, 10:17:56 pm »
We actually had a double storm, two at once.  One of them dropped 100mm (about 6 inches) of rain in an hour.  The winds were nearly strong enough to be hurricane-strength, but not quite.  I saw a few full sized trees that were knocked over, and very big branches came off ours.  There were also a couple dozen traffic lights that were blown over, and many street signs (the bus stop in front of my house ended up flat).  Overall, it was a pretty sweet storm!  Here is a link to the local newspaper:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2005/07/18/1136392-sun.html

The winds managed to collapse a barn:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2005/07/18/1136391-sun.html

According to the Saffir-Simpsons Hurricane Scale, the winds would qualify for just barely a class-1 hurricane.  To be a class-1 hurricane, which is the weakest one, you need sustained winds of between 119 and 153 km/h, and we reached 120km/h at one point.  That's about 75 miles/hour.  Although that speed wasn't sustained for very long. 

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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2005, 11:04:19 pm »
Send me some street signs!

There was a tornado here about 2 weeks ago.
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2005, 11:08:58 pm »
But in a hurricane the winds are like that for hours.  Still unusually strong for a thunderstorm.
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2005, 11:26:10 pm »
The storm was on the news here for like 20 seconds.  Good job, you were on longer then that ladys dead body being found..
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2005, 12:40:54 am »
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2005, 09:36:01 am »
Quote from: RoMi on July 18, 2005, 11:08:58 pm
But in a hurricane the winds are like that for hours.  Still unusually strong for a thunderstorm.

I know, I think I said somewhere that "but it wasn't sustained". 

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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2005, 02:57:44 am »
Sucks for you Ron.
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2005, 02:38:28 pm »
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2005, 04:34:22 pm »
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2005, 08:06:15 pm »
WTF?!
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2005, 09:05:43 pm »
He's a friend I know from AIM.  But Brandon also happens to be the closest largish town to my city. 
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2005, 11:17:09 pm »
I was about to say... Brandon is NOT a city. :P

How many people live in winnipeg, roughly?
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2005, 09:50:06 am »
Around 650,000.
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2005, 12:28:51 am »
I *might* be in winnipeg sometime this month..
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Re: Saturday's weather
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2005, 01:47:54 pm »
Quote from: Blaze on July 22, 2005, 12:28:51 am
I *might* be in winnipeg sometime this month..

Let me know if you are! We'll go bowling
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