Amazing! I've been wanting to hear you talk about the polar vortex and pressure systems as I watch El Niño unfold. Also, you should try crostoli, an Italian cookie associated with Christmas. Really good and not too sweet.
@@Thechezbailey You don't get as many arctic cold blasts, especially with an El Nino this strong. I'm not saying you don't get them, but the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest temperatures are typically above average.
Got it, time to make some Mesocyclone Muffins. Perhaps a batch of Cyclone Cookies, BOMB CYCLONE COOKIES with red, blue and purple frosting for that Warm front wrapping around to meet the Occluded Front. Awesome idea. Thank you for the creative inspiration Steve, makes perfect sense that you are good at baking.
I have a cat named Supercell because I think weather terms make awesome names for pets. She loves me so much that she doesn't want me to leave to where she tries to trip me. The love she gives is adorable, but she's a little thunderstorm or Supercell. Butts me in the head (hail), purrs loud (thunder), runs fast (wind), goes in all directions (tornado), drools a bit (rain), and kneading my lap to sleep (lightning).
Ah yes, Artistic Liberties, the codeword for "I didn't feel like spending fifteen hours getting this exactly right, so take this good enough version instead." ...I swear creativity is a blessing and a curse sometimes. On another note I'm definitely keeping this idea in the back of my head in case I ever spontaneously gain an interest in baking!
A crossover of some of my favorite things I never knew I needed, being baking/cooking and weather; super fun and interesting video to switch it up for the holiday season!
You should do a cake that is a radar image of a strong hurricane. I would love that, especially if it's chocolate. I love the ones that develop a well-defined eye. If you ever do a supercell cake, the piece that has the hook echo and debris ball is to be eaten first, as it's the most dangerous part of the cell, and therefore, the most delicious piece of cake.
Hey Steve. I know in past videos that you state you don't want to do videos that people like Carly Anna (who I like also) do on the same subject. But I know I'd like to see your perspective on some of those same subjects. I learn alot from your Meteorology and the things you discuss in your videos. Please take that into account when deciding on which topics to discuss. Keep up the great work!
Steve, amazing video! You combined my favorite things: learning, tornados, cats, and Christmas cookies! Well done (but I am not eating the May fly swarm cookies). Merry Christmas! 🎄🌪🎄
You looking into the camera and saying "It has to be a tiny whisk. You have to use a tiny whisk" made me LAUGH because I felt so strongly about this item that I bought my mom and best friend tiny whisks just so I could stop bringing my own with me every time I fly to visit 😅 I started making my own sauces and the tiny whisk was indeed a significant bonus to my kitchen.
Can you please do a video on the 2008 Suffolk Virginia tornado? It was an EF 3 tornado and I’ll never forget it. I was young at the time, but would love to learn more about it. Strong tornadoes like that don’t typically happen in SE VA.
Brian Lagerstrom better watch it :) cause Steve from weatherbox is in the kitchen hahaha j/k. Thanks for the fun episode for holiday season. All the best in 2024!
Can you do a video on the 2010 Atlanta Christmas blizzard? There was another major blizzard that hit the same area a couple weeks later as well in Jan or early Feb 2011 IIRC. It was really remarkable.
I would recommend the middle part of May as a good time to spend a week at CP. You're less likely to encounter ridiculous heat and humidity in May than you would see later in the summer (although there is definitely still a chance of that), in no small part due to CP's lakeshore location and the Lake Erie water temperature still being fairly cold (low 50s°F) in mid-May. Definitely be prepared for the park air temperature to be 6-8° cooler during the day than your hotel, unless you're staying at the Breakers on the peninsula, again due to the cold lake water in May. In mid-June, the mayflies exit Lake Erie by the millions, and especially at night, they swarm toward any overhead light. They don't bite or sting humans, and are harmless in that respect, but their thick swarms and large size can make them difficult to dodge if walking at night, and I've had windshields go from perfectly clear to completely blocked by smashed mayfly guts in 20 miles. Thankfully they can't go more than a few miles inland, as they are full-time aquatic insects who only swarm adjacent land areas to mate on or about June 15 each year, and if your hotel is near the Turnpike, you're away from the horny mayflies. July and August are the Lower Midwest's severe weather season, statistically speaking. I don't want you to think a tornado will wipe CP off the map or anything, but the higher heat, humidity, and lake water temps (70°F or above by August) add up to more frequent afternoon thunderstorm development, and as everywhere else, a few of these can become severe. CP is well-known to shut down rides at least temporarily and herd park visitors into covered or indoor attractions while storms pass, so they have a pretty good handle on weather safety. September often has nice days and cool to even chilly nights, although the park is usually beginning to wind down operations to weekends only by the middle part of the month. The opposite lake effect from that in the spring may be noticed: especially in the evening, the park may remain a few degrees warmer than neighboring inland areas.
Steve, in a word...BRILLIANT! Love this so much dude, although I don't know if I'd have the patience to do the frosting on the radar cookies...but man, this was so much fun! I never would have thought of something like this...and none of my friends would get it, LOL!
There isn't really a neutral place to say this, except maybe here. Also, I know what I'm trying to say, but not how to best say it. Please bear with me. I really appreciate this channel. Especially with YT pushing shorts out the wazoo, it's refreshing to see continued long-form content like this. I specifically recommend Weatherbox to anyone who will listen to me ramble about meteorology, which is a conversation usually as straightforward as, "don't listen to me; this guy's channel explains it so much better." I greatly appreciate having readily-available (and entertaining) references like this. Thank you.
If only a cookie could properly cook wen made into the shape of a supercell that has the top Anviled by the tropopause. And if it could be a layered cookie then have the top layer made to be drier so that when it rises in the oven it can literally be an "elevated mixed dry layer". This is bringing out the best of my nerdiness.
