Weather Phobias
Heliophobia (fear of the sun) is the opposite of Nyctophobia (fear of the night) and has nothing to do with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia unless you fear long words. Nyctophobia can go hand in hand with Selenophobia (Fear of the Moon). The fear of clouds is called nephophobia. People with astraphobia feel extreme anxiety or debilitating fear when preparing for a thunderstorm. They may watch weather reports obsessively or have panic attacks (rushes of anxiety that cause intense physical symptoms) during a storm. Another name for astraphobia is brontophobia. Like many phobias, lilapsophobia is caused by an unwanted experience, specifically tornadoes or hurricanes that cause injuries, destruction, or loss of loved ones to self or others they know. Chinonophobia is the fear of snow, not a phobia of Michiganders unless you have to drive in it, or Cryophobia – the fear of cold. We also have Ancraophobia the fear of wind and Ombrophobia the fear of rain. Homichlophobia is the fear of fog and Pagophobia is the fear of ice or frost (not to be confused with Phagophobia a fear of swallowing.
From what I could discern there is no phobia for boring weather patterns. There are signals we will finally have a break in this pattern early next week.
Weather History
1918: A tornado destroyed a large barn about 5 miles southeast of Grand Haven in Ottawa County, and carried the timbers a half mile
On September 18, 1977, the tornado sirens beat the alarm clocks when an F1 tornado hit St. Clair County at a VERY EARLY 2:25 AM.
Aurora photo from SS – Thanks!
NWS Forecast
Forecast Discussion
- Continued hot and dry. Today will be another in a long string of above normal temperatures and dry weather. Latest surface analysis shows sfc dewpoints near 60 over far southeast Lower...roughly 8-10 degrees higher than over the cwa. Short range models show the ESE wind flow pushing those higher dewpoints westward today. HREF cloud progs point toward some CU developing east of US-127 late morning/early afternoon. However, afternoon mixing will draw down drier air from aloft and tend to dissipate the cu throughout the afternoon; we`ll still be looking at a mostly sunny sky. The upper Rex block will remain intact through Thursday. Tonight will be a repeat of clear skies and patchy overnight fog, followed by another mostly sunny day Thursday. - Chances for showers Fri and Sun-Tue The slow breakdown of the blocking pattern late this week into next should spell an end to the persistent dry and sunny weather, with 80- degree days becoming less favored after Sunday. The upper levels in the northern stream will tend to transition to more progressive Rossby waves as a stronger North Pacific jet streak moves in next week. The interaction of the northern stream with the southern stream over the southern US, which will tend to be more stationary and prone to blocking, complicates the large-scale evolution of the pattern over the CONUS next week. The details on when specifically rain might occur next week are quite disparate in the ensembles. There is however some clustering in the ensembles for a minor chance of showers on Friday, followed by a somewhat better chance Sunday- Tuesday. There are even some plausible solutions for soaking rain amounts over 1 inch by Tuesday, though this is not yet the most likely outcome. Friday may have weak elevated instability to support thunder chances, especially in northern areas closer to the influence of the weak shortwave trough. The Sun-Tue timeframe will depend on the extent that a northern stream trough will dig into the Dakotas and upper Midwest, followed by the potential for a compact upper-level low in the southern stream to migrate out of the southwest US.
Michael, Interesting read!!! Mine is just the one of driving in the snow. I always say I just wish it would snow everywhere but the roads. Lol Thanks for posting pic. We had been watching the skies that night. You could see the pink and pillars with naked eye. Put my camera on night mode and this is what was behind the shot. We did try to drive to a more dark horizon spot, but with all the corn up right now hard to do. Lol. The surge did not last long either. Still beautiful and amazing how each “storm”… Read more »
Northern lights, a lunar eclipse, and sunny and warm all week. What could be better?
Exactly!!!
Maybe a little rain???
I have a fear of phobias. Would that be phobiaphobia?
phobophobia
Nice Aurora photo, SS!
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