Severe Weather 2024

[TH2002]

I’m currently learning Russian and I find it darkly amusing that the word for tornado (smerch) is almost identical phonetically to the word for death (smert’).

Actually, there are three words:
the obvious one (торнадо)
the most commonly used one (смерч)
the one that is technically incorrect, and often refers to straight-line windstorms but is sometimes used to refer to tornadoes anyway (ураган)

Enjoying learning Russian yet?

 

[Tennie]

I’m currently learning Russian and I find it darkly amusing that the word for tornado (smerch) is almost identical phonetically to the word for death (smert’).

From a certain perspective, it makes some sense (particularly with the more violent tornadoes). Imagine a powerful tornado as basically being a giant industrial-strength blender, crammed full of debris and set on a high setting. Now introduce living organisms into that mess. In that kind of environment, it shouldn't be all that surprising for some absolutely brutal levels of injury to be produced. As such, although I have no idea of the actual linguistic history of those two words (and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be very different from the assumption that I'm about to make here), it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some of the ancient people living in those regions ended up associating these storms with death and fury.

Day 2 marginal is aesthetically pleasing. View attachment 28561

With a few modifications, you could get that to look like Dick-butt.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

From a certain perspective, it makes some sense (particularly with the more violent tornadoes). Imagine a powerful tornado as basically being a giant industrial-strength blender, crammed full of debris and set on a high setting. Now introduce living organisms into that mess. In that kind of environment, it shouldn't be all that surprising for some absolutely brutal levels of injury to be produced. As such, although I have no idea of the actual linguistic history of those two words (and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be very different from the assumption that I'm about to make here), it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some of the ancient people living in those regions ended up associating these storms with death and fury.



With a few modifications, you could get that to look like Dick-butt.

Good grief hahahahahaah

 

[TH2002]

Speaking of Russia, Europe's tornado season is now picking up. This tornado touched down near Agapovsky, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Very photogenic supercell, with the storm looking just like a classic plains tornado. Fortunately, the only damage I've seen so far are some downed power poles and pivot irrigations flipped over. A landspout also touched down near Germankova, Ukraine.

 

[Sawmaster]

Enjoying learning Russian yet?

Actually yes. I am a long-time watcher of a certain YT car-crash channel from there where I've learned how to cuss in the language, as well as one form of "mat" And I'm slowly learning to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet.

 

[TH2002]

Actually yes. I am a long-time watcher of a certain YT car-crash channel from there where I've learned how to cuss in the language, as well as one form of "mat" And I'm slowly learning to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet.

I speak a little Russian and German, definitely enough to scour for footage of naders and enough to pretend I don't speak english when panhandlers ask me for money

Far as Romance languages go, I know just enough to search for tornadoes.

I've also learned to properly wrangle DeepL to search for tornado events in Japan, Saudi Arabia and other countries.

 

[JPWX]

I speak a little Russian and German, definitely enough to scour for footage of naders and enough to pretend I don't speak english when panhandlers ask me for money

Far as Romance languages go, I know just enough to search for tornadoes.

I've also learned to properly wrangle DeepL to search for tornado events in Japan, Saudi Arabia and other countries.

That's impressive

 

[locomusic01]

Actually yes. I am a long-time watcher of a certain YT car-crash channel from there where I've learned how to cuss in the language, as well as one form of "mat" And I'm slowly learning to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet.

One of my best friends comes from a Russian family and he's tried to teach me the language many times, but this is pretty much the only thing I've picked up too lol

 

[warneagle]

Actually, there are three words:
the obvious one (торнадо)
the most commonly used one (смерч)
the one that is technically incorrect, and often refers to straight-line windstorms but is sometimes used to refer to tornadoes anyway (ураган)

Enjoying learning Russian yet?

Much harder than German and Romanian were but not as unpleasant to read in an academic context as German.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Speaking of Russia, Europe's tornado season is now picking up. This tornado touched down near Agapovsky, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Very photogenic supercell, with the storm looking just like a classic plains tornado. Fortunately, the only damage I've seen so far are some downed power poles and pivot irrigations flipped over. A landspout also touched down near Germankova, Ukraine.

Doubt there's much spirit of cooperation between the Russian and Ukrainian meteorological authorities right now (if either country even bothers keeping track of tornadoes), so seems unlikely this outbreak will be accurately documented.

 

[MichelleH]

Actually yes. I am a long-time watcher of a certain YT car-crash channel from there where I've learned how to cuss in the language, as well as one form of "mat" And I'm slowly learning to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet.

I have German heritage on one side and I can cuss you out in Deutsch.

 

[Clancy]

Speaking of Russia, Europe's tornado season is now picking up. This tornado touched down near Agapovsky, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Very photogenic supercell, with the storm looking just like a classic plains tornado. Fortunately, the only damage I've seen so far are some downed power poles and pivot irrigations flipped over. A landspout also touched down near Germankova, Ukraine.

Man, if you showed me this video without context, I would've assumed it was from Nebraska or something!

 

[JPWX]

Storm rolling through Burlington, CO. ASOS Station reported gust to 96mph. SVRD warning for 100mph winds. Created my own logo too

 

[TH2002]

Based on some of the recent posts in this thread, maybe a good idea to start a silly off topic thread for all of us to practice our lingual skills

 

[UncleJuJu98]

Looks like we got a strong MCS that's supposed to sweep through north and north central Alabama this evening/night.

 

[Clancy]

Looks like we got a strong MCS that's supposed to sweep through north and north central Alabama this evening/night.

Yep. Classic summertime setup for us.

 

[Tomcats Forever!]

I’m currently learning Russian and I find it darkly amusing that the word for tornado (smerch) is almost identical phonetically to the word for death (smert’).

Anyone willing to subject themselves to learning a slavic language, especially one with a different alphabet, has my respect.

 

[Clancy]

Wind and hail-driven Slight for today across parts of AR, TN, MS and AL.

 

[Clancy]

HRRR and NAM advertise a fairly potent MCS moving through parts of the South this evening.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Meanwhile, the long-advertised uptick in northern Plains-Midwest activity is now on our doorstep; SPC has risk areas out for Wednesday and Thursday (the latter of which includes southern Wisconsin). However, the Thursday risk for our area at least from what I see on the models appears to be tied to a potential line of storms that would move through in the midday with mainly a wind/hail threat; and nothing in the "prime time" of mid-afternoon to early evening. Lots will change between now and then though, I'm sure.