Earth Watch Report - Extreme Weather
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| 20.07.2013 | Extreme Weather | USA | State of Michigan, [Detroit region] |  |
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Extreme Weather in USA on Saturday, 20 July, 2013 at 04:28 (04:28 AM) UTC.
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Heavy storms packing winds of up to 60 m.p.h. and penny-size hail
rolled into southeast Michigan late Friday, knocking out power to
105,000 DTE Energy customers and snapping trees in half. And more severe
weather was expected into the night as a cold front moved in from
northern Michigan, according to the National Weather Service. Reports of
downed trees, hail and high winds poured into the National Weather
Service’s offices in White Lake Township. According to early reports,
downed trees were scattered along Rochester Road in Troy, winds of 60 to
70 m.p.h snapped trees in Pontiac, hail 3 of an inch thick fell on
Brownstown Township, and a large tree blocked an intersection in
Clarkston. Other reports said a tree a foot in diameter had snapped in
Troy, another tree 15 inches in diameter was down in Milford, while
winds of 50 m.p.h. raked Brighton and pea-size hail rained on Clinton
Township. DTE spokeswoman Randi Berris said the company was expecting
more outages as more storms packing high winds were to move into the
area later tonight. The first wave of storms hit DTE’s Oakland County customers the hardest, where 45,000 customers were without power. Other outages were scattered across Wayne, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. Phil Kurimski, a Weather Service meteorologist in White Lake, said forecasters were keeping an eye on the cold front as it made its way south from the Saginaw Valley and the possibility that it could bring a new round of storms with it. A plume of moisture that settled over southeast Michigan sparked the damaging late-afternoon and early-evening thunderstorms, Kurimski said. "It’s a busy night, watching these storms producing a lot of wind damage," he said. "Some trees snapped, some large ones were down, some trees were uprooted." The cold front brings relief from the steamy weather of the past week. The forecast for Saturday’s high is 84, while the forecast for Sunday’s high is 77. |
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