Old Weather Forum

A few minutes after my alarm woke me, my phone sounded an alarm. There was a tsunami advisory for the Washington coast (actually the entire North America coast). The waves are currently coming in, but from what I'm hearing have just been a few feet so far. They are saying bigger waves could potentially arrive over the next few hours. My house is at about 80 feet. So I'm at no danger here. Also they're not expecting the waves to make it this far down into Puget Sound anyway.

This is due to an undersea volcano that erupted near Tonga.

Wow!
I hope it doesn't get beyond a couple of feet!

I think the Tsunami trumps my breeze.
Lets hope the bigger waves do not arrive.

I was reading about the eruption and recognised the name of the volcano - Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai. One of the ship's I edited, HMS Veronica, sailed between 2 islands in 1921 and I got rather confused as the maps I looked at showed 1 island and dry land where they were sailing. It appears to be very active and to keep changing shape!

Log page for that day

pommystuart wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:43 am I knocked out the hinge pins on my bedroom door (1 at a time) , greased them and put them back. Now the door will not stay open.
Cleaned away the grease and no change still closing on its own.

Is there any point in taking them out an just giving them the lightest go over with a very fine emery paper? It might help, Stuart.

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Gordon I hope that the tsunami doesn't make it up the sound and doesn't upset your house!

I don't know how to separate the image from the web page but here is the eruption viewed from space

https://twitter.com/i/status/1482362563807621121

Stuart, If I had seen the clouds in your (once again ) fantastic pictures, I think I would have turned around and gone back in and head for the basement. No, actually, that's what I think I should have done- really, I would have stood there and watched them. Good shots.

Thanks Morgan the 84km/h wind stripped the leaves of a lot of trees just down the road.

The pressure wave from the eruption was measured even here in Europe.
Shortly after 8pm the air pressure in The Netherlands first rose 0.8 HPa and then dropped 2 HPa.

Snowing! We're supposed to get quite a bit

I was going to have dinner with a friend today, but we decided to change it to lunch.

-11C at 10pm and supposed to go down to -15C by morning.

Brrrrr!!!
Keep warm

It was -16C at 9am!

Fortunately, this building has good heating.

Just up the road from my place. (Well, a bit more than "just", 3000kn North West)
I heard about this cloud on the ABC radio this morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_(cloud)

One entry is by the 'The Cloud Appreciation Society.' I'd best appreciate a monster like that by simply not being underneath it. It's humungous!

Here is another cloud formation in a similar area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud

Enjoy the videos.
Glider pilots often go up there when the cloud forms to fly along the length of the cloud.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/ ... nd/9010504

Some even Hand glide it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RzurOLMD1BM

Neat!