Major storm front with heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes. NWS has the entire are under Thunderstorm and Tornado warnings and watches. Something rare for central Florida.
Any reports from on property?
Any reports from on property?
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Severe Weather Tonight 1/22
- Thread starter monothingie
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Pam Hates Penguins
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No, but I have heard.
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kelknight84
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Not rare at all for FL. I'm sure most of today was business as usual.
lazyboy97o
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The tornado warnings so far have been north of Walt Disney World with the storm moving in a northeast direction.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
- No
It was mostly business as usual today, though I personally spent the majority of the day in Disney Quest. Illuminations did go off 30 minutes early. Good thing, because it is currently pouring. A lot of people headed to the movie theater as I was leaving for Epcot.
This is a fairly regular thing. Just not for, well, January. This has been an extremely warm January, though.
I've been through storms like this in August. Stuck in various locations during a storm.
This is a fairly regular thing. Just not for, well, January. This has been an extremely warm January, though.
I've been through storms like this in August. Stuck in various locations during a storm.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
- No
Well, this is Florida. It's a pretty normal thing to happen, and these parks are built for it. Disneyland's parks are not designed to handle this kind of weather in the way the WDW parks are.
NearTheEars
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Rough couple of hours in Central Fla. tonight. Storms moved quickly, lots of radar-detected rotation. Hopefully not too much damage. The worst of it was north of WDW, however.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Interesting to see them doing this for Tornado's...Are Hurricane's just a brush off out there?
lazyboy97o
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The warnings were not near Walt Disney World. The parks were closed just last year fro Hurricane Matthew.
Rteetz
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Understandable but CA is just getting heavy rains no major storms like FL. My concern was fireworks and the wind. Disney has had problems with the winds starting fires before. Obviously there were no issues but it was interesting to note.
HolleBolleGijs
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Pretty bad tonight. Ended the night in Epcot when the worst of it hit, appropriately it started just as the Broadway performance was ending with Let It Go. People, myself included, were having trouble walking, the monorail was briefly shut down, and I think SSE was having electrical issues. Wishes definitely happened, not sure about Illuminations.
Today was my "four parks one day" day, and it was pretty much a ghost town everywhere. Middle of the afternoon, and Space was only 20 minutes, Pirates was walk-on.
Today was my "four parks one day" day, and it was pretty much a ghost town everywhere. Middle of the afternoon, and Space was only 20 minutes, Pirates was walk-on.
Disney-Trains
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First Broadway show was wet seats but it stayed dry.
Second broadway show was light crowds and started late because of lightning (they kept the first 3 rows reserved and let other guests fill in under the roof and in the handicap benches... cast at the theatre was awesome and trying to get everyone that wanted to be under the roof.). 8:00 Broadway show was cancelled, and as was reported fireworks at 8:35. i stayed dry the whole day dodging into buildings and using my dark sky app. I thought I was going to make it but then on the parking lot tram (with nowhere to go, on a moving tram) the sky fell and it just poured. Was soaked for the car ride back to the hotel. Oh well... Was still a great day!
Second broadway show was light crowds and started late because of lightning (they kept the first 3 rows reserved and let other guests fill in under the roof and in the handicap benches... cast at the theatre was awesome and trying to get everyone that wanted to be under the roof.). 8:00 Broadway show was cancelled, and as was reported fireworks at 8:35. i stayed dry the whole day dodging into buildings and using my dark sky app. I thought I was going to make it but then on the parking lot tram (with nowhere to go, on a moving tram) the sky fell and it just poured. Was soaked for the car ride back to the hotel. Oh well... Was still a great day!
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
- No
CA is an entirely different beast than WDW. They have neighbors, and they have to exercise caution. Plus, California is a desert. They are more prone to fires. As for shutting down DCA early, does anyone seriously want to be in DCA during heavy rains? It's a curtosy to CMs to let them go home if there aren't any guests there.
It's so wet here that I wouldn't expect any problems with fire tonight. I don't think they shot off Star Wars fireworks, though, and there was definitely no Fantasmic.
COProgressFan
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Others have already said it, but that kind of weather is not rare at all for Central Florida. Just because it's January doesn't mean that they suddenly forget how to deal with storms.
Exactly. Florida can handle stormy weather, even if its a bit abnormal for January.
They way people react to weather is Southern California is just different from many other places in the US. With a mild and fairly consistent climate, rain storms become the top news headline and people adjust their plans.
If rain and storms were to have this effect elsewhere, the state of Florida would essentially shut down for four months a year.
wdwfan22
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Disneyland Resort closed early because of flooding problems on the interstates that was making travel difficult. California Adventure closed at 7 and Disneyland 8 spreading out the exiting crowds on the interstates and roadways.
Steve Martin did a great wacky weatherman bit in "L.A. Story" where he parodied Angelenos for over reacting to 56 degree weather.