Storm/Weather/Tornado terms we'd like to see

[fplowman]

VSC = Very Scary Cloud.
A buddy of mine used to tease me with that.

 

[Dann Cianca]

Treasure Hunters - Chasers that go out with more equipment than the Ghostbuster mobile.

Marker Sniffers - Chasers that wouldn't see a tornado between the headlights if there wasn't a TVS marker on their radar.

S*** The Bed - When a storm's outflow cuts off its inflow.

Thunder T**s - Mammatus clouds.

The Haunted House - Weld and Morgan Counties in Colorado where tornadoes are frequently reported but never caught on film.

The Sistine Chapel - Looking up into the vault during a night-time storm.

Border Patrol - Different state, different speed limit, less money in the bank account.


MODS ... I'm pushing the envelope with a couple. Feel free to delete if you find them inappropriate.

 

[Susan Strom]

Here's a little one I made up about 10 years ago to remember the recipe for a storm:

SMILE
Shear, Moisture, Instability, Lift and Energy = Yay.

Good times.

 

[Kem Poyner]

terms

"Hashbrowns" If the SPC shows a hatched area on the map for the possibility of F2-F5 tornados, my brother would always say "We got hashbrowns!". Though he is gone, I use that term still. Kem

 

[Jeff Bartlett]

Duke = A vague reference to the Dukes of Hazzard. A duke occurs when you intentionally or unintentionally get air under all four tires on a gravel or dirt road. Most are accidental and not done intentionally. Although I have many near-Dukes, I accidentally achieved my first one on 5-13-08 south of Prague, OK.

"Man, did you see me Duke over that bridge about three miles back?"

Note: Not to be confused with a bowel-movement.

 

[Fabian Guerra]

How many terms have you heard to describe a shortwave? I didn't invent it but the term "dingus in the flow" works for me.

 

[Daniel Christianson]

Negative Red and Blue Chase: Meaning being chased by law enforcement while chasing a storm and not even knowing he was behind you WITHOUT the lights on"

 

[Daniel Christianson]

Stormgasm- JK guys wont even go there lol

 

[Erik Burns]

Heres one I use. Never heard anybody else use . " Nonadoes". NO-NADOES

It's an illness chasers suffer after a bad season, chase, or inbetween seasons.

 

[Brian Stertz]

Tornado black...the deep bruised look to the sky in the immediate vicinity of a large violent tornado. The look is one that I never forget.

 

[Mark Sefried]

"Swirly twirlies" : Those darn little quick dust swirls that form on a storms outflow that are gustnado wannabies. I suppose it could also be a drunken rednecks term for a tornado, lol.

 

[Daniel Christianson]

Treasure Hunters - Chasers that go out with more equipment than the Ghostbuster mobile.


Thunder T**s - Mammatus clouds. ( I guess that is mother natures way of flashing us"

lol ahhhhh.

 

[Dann Cianca]

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Thunder T**s - Mammatus clouds. ( I guess that is mother natures way of flashing us"

lol ahhhhh.

So you're riding a long and you see the mams and think, wow, what a sexy storm! Then it drops a tornado and you go home confused and feeling very, very dirty.

 

[David Wolfson]

... and another as I ponder the model forecasts just coming in for next week:

Beta Block - Not an Omega block, not a Rex block, but a hybrid blocking pattern that causes one's heart to skip (ref. beta blockers) as one contemplates targeting somewhere or other between Canada and south Texas.

 

[Doug Mitchell]

I'd like to see "the suck zone" become a legit term.