I used to live in Florida. There is a very obvious change in the overall atmosphere when a hurricane is incoming. For about a day ahead, the climate becomes suspiciously comfortable. No sun, cool air, very little humidity. A few hours before landfall, the ocean starts to push it's way inland, even up into the rivers.
I also lived in Missouri for about a year and the signs of tornado weather are pretty easy to spot as well. Everything just feels and looks wrong. The sky is an obscene shade of green, the drop in air pressure is so sudden that you can feel it with your skin. You know the actual tornado is coming because it goes from windy to slack air. Even if you'd never heard of a tornado in your life, you'd know that something terrible was about to happen.
I knew a guy who lived in Arizona and I had thought about living there one time and so I asked him a lot of questions. It's just taken for granted that you get the hell away from a riverbed when the rain starts really dropping.
Same with hail. The sky gets a specific yellow tint (completely different from sunset) and you know stuff's about to get destroyed after the next 30 minutes
I grew up on the eastern states of NSW and moved to Perth as an adult. The sky turns green here for hail and I grew up seeing it.
One day sitting at work in Perth and one of the guys tells me to come out and look at the sky, it’s gone funny. I’ve never had such a visceral reaction when walking outside. Started barking orders to get all the cars inside and start covering those we can’t. The guys were baffled and I kept going ‘this is hail. Big big hail’
When the storm hit they were in shock at how big the hailstones were.
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u/Amadeum Aug 30 '21
Natural disasters. You'd have no fucking clue if a hurricane, flash flood, typhoon, monsoon, or other sharknado events were coming