Happened to me today. Out in the backyard. Sky was yellow dark, should have gone inside and bang, it just drops, sound of the wind is insane and I’ve been through a cat 3 hurricane before. It’s like being in a washing machine, the downpour is nuts. Third microburst this year and we’ve never had them in my region before. And hail
You're supposed to PULL OVER in this situation and wait a few minutes to see if it clears up, not just keep speeding down the street with 8% visibility.
@@nattydaddy7864 It’s a little sad you didn’t know that this person was just referring to the low visibility, not providing a 100% accurate visibility prediction.
@@feng240 It's not necessarily supposed to help the driver see. It plays a factor in driving at night, but in this case it would mainly be so that you can see other drivers.
Adam J. And it wasn’t even a microburst. Based on standard NWS definition, This was just a storm. A microburst isn’t a concurrent event. They happen very fast and end just as fast. Not last minutes like this one.
Brandon Thomas That was definitely 100% a microburst. You can see it in the video from a the distance. It was a perfect shot. Also an Microburst can last more than 15 minutes :)
There isn't a meteorological event named "megaburst". Microbursts can be light or lifethreatningly powerful, but the word "micro" points out the fact that these downdrafts of air and rain are localized and rather small.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im so sorry, when the yellow thing hit your can and your comments after, I started CRACKING up. Lol it's the way you said Jesu Christ LOL and the panic rises gradually. Omg
Yeah a microburst is a different thing to this. This is called a rainstorm, and most people just pull over and wait it out for a few minutes. Beats honking and sweating LOL.
A microburst is same or similar to wind shear that can take down jets. We get then in AZ. We had one DESTROY. A large tree. We were lucky it did nit hit the house! (but they are usually pretty focused it seems).
This is a microburst. You can see&hear intense wind and rainfall, meaning that a localized thunder- or rainstorm wind powerful downdrafts had hit that area. That definetely is a microburst, do your research.
@@santerimyl A microburst is about the downdraft, not intense rain....especially the spread of the draft when it hits the ground...or in tge case of air traffic “wind shear”..... It may contain rain, but is often dry. Do YOUR research
@@santerimyl so because in your opinion this was "intense rain and wind" that means it was a microburst. We get these fairly often and call them "pop up thunderstorms". I've had to pull over on i75 before From what I've read, microburst have winds over 100mph. Don't think that happened here
@@MarvinMonroe @MarvinMonroe a wind gust of 115mph was measured shortly after the microburst had hit the ground. Either way, there are no "official" wind limit to microbursts. Microbursts can be slight downpours with only 20mph winds, not 100mph. "Pop-up thunderstorms" aka localized thunderstorms can be severe, but do you know what the most powerful part in them is? Either the gust in the front OR A MICROBURST.
Still not a microburst! That’s a typical thunderstorm with gusty outflow winds! If that were a microburst it would have been a wall of very strong 60+ mph winds and about double the amount of rain! Trees would be snapping, power poles too! I know this as my home was hit by one! It took out the lovely pine tree in my front yard! Snapped it off at about 10’ tree was easily a 30-40’ monster with a base that’s well over 30” wide. It also blew apart my hay shed and ripped it from the foundation!
@@CattleRustlerOCN I don’t think you fully thought that through, or haven’t been caught driving in hail before. You aren’t exactly going to get out of the way of the hailstones. Your best bet is to hunker down and let it pass. The faster you drive the harder the hail is going to hit your windshield... not to mention visibility and traction become issues as well. This just isn’t huge enough hail to be spazzing out over. The guy also was really angry about that other driver in the line, who wasn’t doing anything to warrant a tantrum. This guy just needs to chill out.
I’m more impressed by how the drivers actually treated the traffic light as a 4way stop sign. I can’t tell you how many people blast through these when the power is out
The dude drove the same speed the entire time after realizing he was in one. He never sped up. I don’t know where you saw that in the video, or if you even did watch the video. But he definitely didn’t speed up.
@@Vune_GG at the 1:40 mark you hear can hear his engine rev up and he is obviously accelerating as he catches up to the white pickup in the left lane. all while the weather is deteriorating and holding a phone in one hand to film the whole thing.
T-storm season might be short in AZ, but a microburst can produce hurricane force winds and many inches of rain in a short time. They're basically storm cannons that shoot straight down, then out in all directions.
Who needs to see where they’re driving?! Just power on... (my mom did that long ago in Tallahassee: driving city streets in a blinding downpour. We made her stop, at which point a train passed in front of us. Never heard it.)
This is Summer in South Florida summed up in a 4 minute video... You jump in the car with blue skies, then 5 minutes later nature is having World War 3 in the sky, then blue skies again 2 minutes later...
@@deltaboy767 My friend lives in Maryville, TN and she has said that's what it's like. I'm not sure if Maryville is in SE TN but that's what Jeannine said, lol. 🌼
I think I would do the same 🤗 Probably would be so freaked out about not being able to see what's in front of me that I wouldn't have the wherewithall to look behind me to make sure it was safe to stop in the middle of the road. My eyes were squinting to see FOR YOU!
Microbursts are really some of the most nastiest, scariest, and craziest storms imaginable. They will catch you off-guard and could certainly kill you. However, I saw something even worse when I was outside working at Lowes. I saw this storm stretch up into the sky and all the way to the ground. It was as wide as the eye could see. It seemed to have debris in it too. The Buildings next to us disappeared into the storm. Once I had seen that, I ran into where I worked immediately. The image of that storm will haunt me for the rest of my life.
@@nordicfalcon pr0bably isn't anymore, but we had a city that was referred to as, "The Lightning Capital of The World" we've got a reputation to live up to 😅
Tristen Jarrell Sad, but true! Lived in FL my whole life. However, I will truthfully say that YES, we get rain in spurts, heavy, heavy rain and 2 miles down the interstate it is not even sprinkling. YES, we get rainbows in the heaviest of downfalls sometimes. But...those heavy wind gusts he just drove through are very rare here. Blinding rain where you cannot see, yes almost on a daily basis, but that wind?? Ah, NO! So here is a FL girl being real!!!
I will say this. Living in Vegas for 20 years and living for Florida for 2. They are VERY different states when it comes to weather. If you want to know more, I posted this for someone earlier: "In Las Vegas in the Summer, rain is unheard of. It's a desert and if you get rain, it causes problems. Just one day of rain after a long period of none will lift the oil from the asphalt and cause the roads to slicken. Many accidents happen around those times and because the ground in Vegas is unlike the soil in places like Florida, it flash floods constantly. It's not uncommon to drive home from work in a rainstorm and have to detour around multiple flood waters. We don't have bedrock like other states do. Instead we have a clay called caliche. It's so solid that construction crews often use machinery that looks like massive chainsaws to break up the ground for pipes and buildings. If you dig with a shovel, you can hit it at about 6 inches down. It doesn't absorb rain water, so when it rains heavy during monsoon season, flash floods occur frequently everywhere. Lived in Vegas for 20 years, we regularly get some nasty winds that top out at about 45 mph. Seen it uproot and topple tons of trees, but never a palm tree. To give you a comparison, in this video, even in our 45 mph winds I have never seen the palm trees (even the two in front of my house) ever lean that far over in a wind. Which tells me that those winds in the video had to be over 50 mph. Not normal at all for Vegas. It would freak any native Las Vegan out. And also, since Vegas is in a deep valley, it is rare to see clouds that low to the ground. Usually they are way up high, not anything like the clouds I saw in Florida. When I saw Florida clouds for the first time I immediately got an uneasy sense of claustrophobia, and was super freaked out by how close the lightning was to the ground. I felt like I had to stay inside to stay safe. The lightning would make me jump and it was deafening. In Vegas, nobody really worries about getting struck. I've seen people and kids play out in the thunderstorms, plenty of people will still be walking or riding bikes, and the thunder just sounds like a distant rumble. The fighter jets from the air force base are way more frequent and louder. Hopefully that kind of puts things in perspective."
Random user #74652819 My mom once drove in rain that was hitting down so hard on the windshield. In his video some things are still foggy visible. I couldn’t even friggin see ANYTHING out any of the windows. My DRIVING TEACHER dad was also in the car calm, while my mother and I were freaking out.
Seems like the most sensible thing to do would have been to pull over ..... and do your filming and then go again when it lightens up.... certainly safer than speeding up and working your camera. The rain was lovely, why not enjoy it?
My name is Kenny Boren lived about 5 miles north Eloy Az from 2003 -2009. Arizona getting some pretty wicked strom during Monsoon Season, I've seen rain horizontal, lots of lighting. Come back from Davis Monthan Air Base after work it was raining so hard I had to get off I-10 park wait for it to lighten up, because I could'nt determin the lanes and the whippers could'nt keep up. That's one thing I do miss moving back to Eastern Washington is those storms. Kenneth Boren...
I once rode through it on my bike. Didn't know anything about it. It was like a bucket of water has been poured on you. I was grasping for breath sometimes as if i was submerged in water
Been on my bicycle miles from nowhere outside of Tucson and got hit by a couple of these. Went from 100 degrees plus dry to really cold wet and shivering in about one minute. Ten minutes later it's sunny, hot and steamy.
From a tropical country, experience them every raining season couple times. At the very worst, there will be water streaming down the wind shield like some one pouring the car with a hose. Tbh, it's fun and comforting to me.
In New England we get these a lot... but usually full of snow. At least you don't have to shovel rain after it falls on top of annoyingly making it 10x harder to drive, slide, and control. Rain?!? Phht just wait til it's over then continue. Snow!?? Stop, shovel yourself out, drive 500 ft; repeat until destination or out of gas, whichever comes first.
eddie Dickens I don’t think it’s like this from Virginia up. We’ve had pretty heavy rains but I don’t think I’ve ever seen rains that bad where I’m from except for the edges of hurricanes
A microburst is a thunderstorm that unleashes its energy all at once, creating a very strong downdraft, therefore causing damaging winds and very heavy rain. The winds in a microburst can reach up to 100 mph, which is the same as an EF1 tornado
I was proud to see people actually treat dead traffic lights as a 4 way. Where I'm at it's crazy. No one looks. They just go for it. As far as the microburst, the visibility was too bad. I would have pulled over.
@@andrewhergenrother8704 well it depends how fast the storm is moving it if it's moving less than 10 mph you might as well drive through it because it's going to take a at least 30 minutes to get through wherever you pull over at
this should be a tutorial on EXACTLY what to look for when you should turn around and NOT drive forward. A freaking rainbow appears and it looks like a tornado coming, turn around. This is how you wake up in oz!
If this were a bad supercell, that microburst could have easily been a rain-wrapped tornado. Luckily I don't think there was any rotation to it, just a stereotypical microburst. Those can also bring baseball sized hail down with them too in buckets so I wouldn't be too anxious to drive into one.
@@IsaacIsDead1 Nah, if this happened to me I'd hope I'd hear the sirens, but no guarantee where I live. I'm miles outside of the nearest town in a very rural area in a trailer with no storm cellar 🥲
Seen a lot of those. Where it really gets fun is when it happens as you are taking care of the farm animals. Most are pretty placid about rain but there are always a couple that lose their dang minds and get pretty testy about it.
except they don't, this isn't just a bad thunderstorm, this is a sudden downdraft causing surface winds around and in the microburst to increase, higher the shear, stronger the microburst, this also explains why rain is so heavy.
You'd better just sit where nothing is above you that isn't made out of concrete or anything under rock material. Because sitting under a gas station roof, where you pump your gas, while that shit is happening. Just think about it. This microburst in the video aint the strongest one ever. That roof would collapse right on top of you. If those things can be taken away like trailers in tornadoes and stuff, it can definitely be flattened by one of these.
LSSJ I wouldn’t have pulled under the tin roof of course what I meant was I would’ve pulled into a parking space, we tend to have thick fog and blizzards and heavy hail storms often in my area but I’m still not used to driving well with low visibility like my dad is
Cameras in videos like this tend to make visibility look worse than it is by focusing on the water on the window, which makes anything further away blurred. Whereas your eyes focus on the road rather than the water running down the window. That said, the visibility was still atrocious.
That’s on Eastern Ave in Henderson/Las Vegas. That shit is exactly how it is! You can’t brake, you have to coast and hope for the best. Gotta love monsoon season
I was 12 or 13 years old when I had this exact same experience, only I was running across a field with my friend to a nearby old boarded up warehouse to get out of the rain. Most terrifying 10 seconds of our lives.
The only time I remember getting hit this hard by rain happened when I was heading home from work several years ago. The downpour was so bad that I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me due to how flooded my windshield was. I had to pull over and wait for several minutes.
Me being a car guy: "PORSCHE TURN AROUND!!!!" Me being a former Moore Oklahoma Resident: "UPLOADER TURN AROUND! Stop driving toward that cloud that is touching the ground!!!"
These types of storms can be extremely dangerous because they can pop out of nowhere and cause straight line damaging winds similar to a weak severe thunderstorm me and my dad drove through a microburst yesterday and it only took about 20 minutes for it to turn from verga which is rain that falls but doesn't hit the ground to a full-blown microburst with heavy downpours and gusts up to 45 miles an hour it was crazy and there was a construction zone in all the barrels were like flying across the road a lot of people may wonder why the construction people didn't know the storm is coming they may have known but it developed so quickly they probably didn't have enough time because the storm only finally turned into heavy rain and or strong wind gusts only a few minutes before it hit the construction zone the storm we drove through yesterday was west of Austin Texas on 71 between Spicewood and briarcliff
At 2:14 I saw that line of heavy rain on the road and knew you were in for it. Once you're down to 30 feet of visibility it's time to find a parking lot and maybe park right up next to the building or in a corner somewhere. If you're on the highway when this happens, all you can do is hold on tight. Also, I find amberized sunglasses cut through the glare really well and allow you to see further, and allow you to spot these weather formations earlier.
It's not necessarily the color that filters out glare, but more the polarization of the glasses, it makes a huge difference when there's reflections on your windows
@@Sodium_Hypobromite Amberized non-polarized glasses do a better job than polarized glasses. The main glasses I wear now are polarized and amberized but I think the polarization is about 5 degrees off from one side to the other, so other peoples' car windows blink at me. It was pretty distracting for a while but now it's background noise. They were cheap.
@@familyfun5301 Nope. It's quite obvious it's handheld, which is totally irresponsible in perfect weather and criminally negligent under these conditions.
Lol on the 3 min in afternoon in Florida… we have them as well in Alabama but, no as common as Florida gets them. My wife is from Florida so, seen my share of them.
Him and the others: Oh no. A heavy, rainy storm and the visability is almost lost. What should i do? Him and the others: Let us keep the speed or even speed up.
And distract ourselves by pulling our phone out to film! It’d be excusable if it were a dashcam, but filming the road with your phone while driving even in good conditions is putting everyone around you at risk. Do not do this.
@@chrishunter8884 it's a mixed bag. We have people like that a lot in Germany but the average (sane) drivers slow down during snow, heavy rain and fog. Knowing stuff like that is even part of the theoretical and practical tests of the driver's license exams.
That’s exactly right Nancy Desch. This person does not know what a microburst is. Had he been hit by one (sustained horizontal winds 60-100 mph) he wouldn’t be able to keep driving.
I remember getting hit by one while at college, I sat in my car amazed as the rain came down so hard I couldn’t even see even with the wipers on. Luckily it lasted only five minutes.
As a Las Vegas native myself, I can tell all of you commenters that Las Vegas residents don’t know how to drive in rain. Ever. They forget how to drive as soon as it starts raining. Trust me.
This is a pretty weak microburst, all things considered. I've witnessed a microburst so strong as it pushed through, it had enough force to literally flip a whole row of parked cars on the side of a perpendicular street. It also bent a stop sign almost a full 45 degrees. I had to take shelter inside an autobody shop and half the tires inside the garage were blown away and fill the alley behind the building. This was nothing
Yes similar one like that went over my house around a year ago, I had outdoor furniture, after that microburst I had a chair sized hole in my window and a car that got flopped over, luckily it's all fixed now but I legit thought it was a tornado or some crap at the time.
In Florida, we call this ‘3 in the afternoon’.
Seriously though. Driving down the highway, I see these like once a month.
Carlos Echazabal in South Dakota we call this a normal day
In Southern California, we call this impossible
In Puerto Rico it's called 'watering the plants.'
In Missouri, we call this, “Tuesdays”
Imagine just walking and minding your own business and then suddenly you find a cloud falling on you.
Allverse MC
Imagine walking on a beautiful sunny day with your dog
@@defouit9776 lol
Happened to me today. Out in the backyard. Sky was yellow dark, should have gone inside and bang, it just drops, sound of the wind is insane and I’ve been through a cat 3 hurricane before. It’s like being in a washing machine, the downpour is nuts. Third microburst this year and we’ve never had them in my region before. And hail
@@Nexus-ub4hs oh my god. how unlucky is that
Chicken little knows what's up lol.. and what's not.
You're supposed to PULL OVER in this situation and wait a few minutes to see if it clears up, not just keep speeding down the street with 8% visibility.
How did you get that percentage? Is there some equation you do?
@@nattydaddy7864 Hyperbole
@@nattydaddy7864 It’s a little sad you didn’t know that this person was just referring to the low visibility, not providing a 100% accurate visibility prediction.
Welcome to Florida
maybe he was trying to find the pot of gold?
Nobody:
Cloud: “I don’t care how small I am, I’m turning into a hurricane on land.”
clouds are not small
@@sfbxiii r/whoosh
@@sfbxiii also your dumb clouds can be average 50ft wide
@@onejumpman4647 That’s… Not.., small…
@@N0T4X0 earth is over 100 million kilometers of land squared 50 feet is small as frick
I love how visibility drops significantly but no one seems to bother to turn on their headlights.
You dont have to
@@Martin-xh1hd Yes, you do. Required by law.
Hows the light gonna help if you can barely see through the window
@@feng240 It's not necessarily supposed to help the driver see. It plays a factor in driving at night, but in this case it would mainly be so that you can see other drivers.
@@Martin-xh1hd im sending you to prison
Driver: Microburst hit my car!
Microburst: no, your car hit my microburst.
Adam J. And it wasn’t even a microburst. Based on standard NWS definition, This was just a storm. A microburst isn’t a concurrent event. They happen very fast and end just as fast. Not last minutes like this one.
Brandon Thomas That was definitely 100% a microburst. You can see it in the video from a the distance. It was a perfect shot. Also an Microburst can last more than 15 minutes :)
No, your driver hit my car that hit the microburst
Exactly what I was gonna a say
Lol
If this is a “micro”burst”, I’d hate to get stuck in a “mega”burst…
There isn't a meteorological event named "megaburst". Microbursts can be light or lifethreatningly powerful, but the word "micro" points out the fact that these downdrafts of air and rain are localized and rather small.
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Not to mention, he's holding a phone/camera while driving in a bad storm. Ever hear of a dashcam or phone holder?
He might not be person holding the phone.
@@GAPeach58 he's driving on the right hand side of the road, almost certainly in a left hand drive car. It's definitely the driver holding the phone
"Microburst!"
"You mean, 'Free car wash'?"
@@glenneggert8344 Yea!
Lol
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yeah but weres the soap
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Free car wash.
Litterly
XD not wrong though!
Yeah
Matt B this is scary. Especially in the freeways.
Is soap included?!?😁😁😁
Speeding through a microburst. Great decision making skills
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im so sorry, when the yellow thing hit your can and your comments after, I started CRACKING up. Lol it's the way you said Jesu Christ LOL and the panic rises gradually. Omg
I have a microburst when I sit on the toilet.
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I'd pay to see that.
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@@Bojacktheman. how much?
*Police: How did the accident happened?*
*Man: He hit my car, Actually i drove into him...*
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Yeah a microburst is a different thing to this. This is called a rainstorm, and most people just pull over and wait it out for a few minutes. Beats honking and sweating LOL.
A microburst is same or similar to wind shear that can take down jets. We get then in AZ. We had one DESTROY. A large tree. We were lucky it did nit hit the house! (but they are usually pretty focused it seems).
This is a microburst. You can see&hear intense wind and rainfall, meaning that a localized thunder- or rainstorm wind powerful downdrafts had hit that area. That definetely is a microburst, do your research.
@@santerimyl A microburst is about the downdraft, not intense rain....especially the spread of the draft when it hits the ground...or in tge case of air traffic “wind shear”..... It may contain rain, but is often dry. Do YOUR research
@@santerimyl so because in your opinion this was "intense rain and wind" that means it was a microburst. We get these fairly often and call them "pop up thunderstorms". I've had to pull over on i75 before
From what I've read, microburst have winds over 100mph. Don't think that happened here
@@MarvinMonroe @MarvinMonroe a wind gust of 115mph was measured shortly after the microburst had hit the ground. Either way, there are no "official" wind limit to microbursts. Microbursts can be slight downpours with only 20mph winds, not 100mph.
"Pop-up thunderstorms" aka localized thunderstorms can be severe, but do you know what the most powerful part in them is? Either the gust in the front OR A MICROBURST.
Fact that your speeding holding your phone .. .. who voluntarily drives into a microbust expecting to see
you wouldn't be here if he didn't record this, right?
They wanted to see a rainbow
That would make him the most badass man that ever lived.
This would make for a great music video *wink wink*
Me 1 minute into the video: "Silly, that's just rain"
Me 2 minutes into the video: "Oh..."
Still not a microburst! That’s a typical thunderstorm with gusty outflow winds!
If that were a microburst it would have been a wall of very strong 60+ mph winds and about double the amount of rain! Trees would be snapping, power poles too! I know this as my home was hit by one! It took out the lovely pine tree in my front yard! Snapped it off at about 10’ tree was easily a 30-40’ monster with a base that’s well over 30” wide.
It also blew apart my hay shed and ripped it from the foundation!
@@jaykneegarner2479 2:30 is alot of wind
DANIEL MEYER ... microburst is like a mini hurricane...this was NOT a mini hurricane
This is reg in North Indiana
Jayknee Garner Definitely not a microburst, I live about a mile away from an airport that got hit by one and it flattened a couple of small hangars
I clicked cause I didn’t know what a microburst was
This wasn't one.
This was indeed a microburst.
Same
Yeah it was lamer than I expected I thought it was gonna be like a Mini explosion from the sky
Sameeee
This is light rain in Georgia. Having said that, why the eff did you speed up with that sort of vis? Pull over and enjoy the moment!
He was avoiding the hailstones, duh
@@CattleRustlerOCN I don’t think you fully thought that through, or haven’t been caught driving in hail before. You aren’t exactly going to get out of the way of the hailstones. Your best bet is to hunker down and let it pass. The faster you drive the harder the hail is going to hit your windshield... not to mention visibility and traction become issues as well. This just isn’t huge enough hail to be spazzing out over. The guy also was really angry about that other driver in the line, who wasn’t doing anything to warrant a tantrum. This guy just needs to chill out.
Weird flex but ok.
During that microburst, winds of up to 115mph were measured, which is not even close to "light rain" for anyone on the earth.
@@santerimyl All the better reason to pull over
@@MayimHastings while you are true, I think CattleRustler was joking
The sheer quantity of "that ain't a knife...this is a knife" comments here is staggering.
What'd ya expect when he calls a spoon a knife?
Bunch of idiots.
Looks like Vegas. I can't believe as visibility decreased, the guy drove faster.
It is 💀
He's insane
@@NWORails_Off_Topic right lol like the whole time I was like, "dood pull over"
@@girlgamer6678 and he did it wrong, he was suppose to drift and blare Tokyo drift
Henderson. Eastern and Saint Rose parkway
Is anyone going to talk about how there was a rainbow inside the microburst
When
@@RounakMzziiYT 1:50
When the sun is behind you and there is rain thats what happens. Nothing unusual about it.
Because it didn’t one out yet
rainbow can be everywhere...
I’m more impressed by how the drivers actually treated the traffic light as a 4way stop sign. I can’t tell you how many people blast through these when the power is out
Some say Andrew is still driving, and drove through Hurricane Ida....without stopping
So, you hit a microburst then proceed to drive even faster, makes sense.
The dude drove the same speed the entire time after realizing he was in one. He never sped up. I don’t know where you saw that in the video, or if you even did watch the video. But he definitely didn’t speed up.
Lmao
@@Vune_GG at the 1:40 mark you hear can hear his engine rev up and he is obviously accelerating as he catches up to the white pickup in the left lane. all while the weather is deteriorating and holding a phone in one hand to film the whole thing.
He fucking sped way up changing lanes he needed to pull over in the first place why risk hitting something he’s a bit of a dipshit if you ask me.
you're a whole ass clown.
People from California and Nevada in a storm: Dang, Look how bad the storm is
People from the South in a storm: wow, this storm is a little weak.
Can confirm 🤣
Haha true this here is verry common for me😄
Yesss
T-storm season might be short in AZ, but a microburst can produce hurricane force winds and many inches of rain in a short time. They're basically storm cannons that shoot straight down, then out in all directions.
@@Bob-jm8kl Interesting.
2:16 Yeah, right about now I'd turn on my headlights.
Who needs to see where they’re driving?! Just power on... (my mom did that long ago in Tallahassee: driving city streets in a blinding downpour. We made her stop, at which point a train passed in front of us. Never heard it.)
This is Summer in South Florida summed up in a 4 minute video...
You jump in the car with blue skies, then 5 minutes later nature is having World War 3 in the sky, then blue skies again 2 minutes later...
Joel Yep...I lived in Hallandale, FL (Broward County) for 11 years and you described it exactly right !! ✔👍🏻😂
This is light rain in West Virginia
This is also southeast Tennessee weather as well.
@@deltaboy767 My friend lives in Maryville, TN and she has said that's what it's like. I'm not sure if Maryville is in SE TN but that's what Jeannine said, lol. 🌼
@@morganjanelle4282 It actually is in SE Tennessee it's near Nashville I'm in Chattanooga about 2 hours away.
How about STOPPING?!?
Yes, I should have stopped.
ALPHA 6 he means on the side of the road
Why?
I think I would do the same 🤗 Probably would be so freaked out about not being able to see what's in front of me that I wouldn't have the wherewithall to look behind me to make sure it was safe to stop in the middle of the road. My eyes were squinting to see FOR YOU!
@@andrewhergenrother8704 Michael told you to dont stop til' you get enough
All things considered, the visibility wasn't even that bad.
the cam had its focus on the windows so the background seemed blurry so he saw better than that at the end
What things?
@@DC-pp8xf .....The microburst?
Microbursts are really some of the most nastiest, scariest, and craziest storms imaginable. They will catch you off-guard and could certainly kill you. However, I saw something even worse when I was outside working at Lowes. I saw this storm stretch up into the sky and all the way to the ground. It was as wide as the eye could see. It seemed to have debris in it too. The Buildings next to us disappeared into the storm. Once I had seen that, I ran into where I worked immediately. The image of that storm will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Sounds like a microburst
Lmao the wipers look like noodles
That's called a rolling shutter ;p
RUHigh?
Robotic Nerd wat
@@vshxbz5779 look up rolling shutter ;p
Your a noodle
Reminds me of Florida almost every afternoon 😂
So true
Truth of it for Florida,🤷
My immediate thoughts when I saw this. Like..this is the norm for us.
I don’t even live in Florida and I think this is Florida. Went there once for vacation when I turned 22. Y’all have damn near micro-hurricanes.
@@nordicfalcon pr0bably isn't anymore, but we had a city that was referred to as, "The Lightning Capital of The World" we've got a reputation to live up to 😅
Glad you survived! Surprised how many kept driving straight!!!
Most people would just pull over until lit passes. {usually 2 3 mins}
Who’s here after daily dose of internet
Me 🙋
Me man.
Had to research it after! LOL
Holy crap how did u know
Meeee
It's called pulling over and letting it pass you.
Alternative video title: I was driving along when it started to rain.
Simple. Why complicate things?
During that microburst, winds of up to 115mph were measured, which is not even close to normal rain for anyone on the earth.
@@santerimyl that’s like a category 3 hurricane, aint it?
Wow, crazy. Also you almost caught the rainbow, with that speed.
The whole comment section “iTs LiKe ThIs AlL tHe TiMe In FlOrIdA”
Tristen Jarrell ikr they need to stfu
tHeY aReN't WrOnG tHo
Josh I know🤣
Tristen Jarrell Sad, but true! Lived in FL my whole life. However, I will truthfully say that YES, we get rain in spurts, heavy, heavy rain and 2 miles down the interstate it is not even sprinkling. YES, we get rainbows in the heaviest of downfalls sometimes. But...those heavy wind gusts he just drove through are very rare here. Blinding rain where you cannot see, yes almost on a daily basis, but that wind?? Ah, NO! So here is a FL girl being real!!!
I will say this. Living in Vegas for 20 years and living for Florida for 2. They are VERY different states when it comes to weather.
If you want to know more, I posted this for someone earlier:
"In Las Vegas in the Summer, rain is unheard of. It's a desert and if you get rain, it causes problems. Just one day of rain after a long period of none will lift the oil from the asphalt and cause the roads to slicken. Many accidents happen around those times and because the ground in Vegas is unlike the soil in places like Florida, it flash floods constantly. It's not uncommon to drive home from work in a rainstorm and have to detour around multiple flood waters. We don't have bedrock like other states do. Instead we have a clay called caliche. It's so solid that construction crews often use machinery that looks like massive chainsaws to break up the ground for pipes and buildings. If you dig with a shovel, you can hit it at about 6 inches down. It doesn't absorb rain water, so when it rains heavy during monsoon season, flash floods occur frequently everywhere.
Lived in Vegas for 20 years, we regularly get some nasty winds that top out at about 45 mph. Seen it uproot and topple tons of trees, but never a palm tree. To give you a comparison, in this video, even in our 45 mph winds I have never seen the palm trees (even the two in front of my house) ever lean that far over in a wind. Which tells me that those winds in the video had to be over 50 mph. Not normal at all for Vegas. It would freak any native Las Vegan out. And also, since Vegas is in a deep valley, it is rare to see clouds that low to the ground. Usually they are way up high, not anything like the clouds I saw in Florida. When I saw Florida clouds for the first time I immediately got an uneasy sense of claustrophobia, and was super freaked out by how close the lightning was to the ground. I felt like I had to stay inside to stay safe. The lightning would make me jump and it was deafening. In Vegas, nobody really worries about getting struck. I've seen people and kids play out in the thunderstorms, plenty of people will still be walking or riding bikes, and the thunder just sounds like a distant rumble. The fighter jets from the air force base are way more frequent and louder.
Hopefully that kind of puts things in perspective."
This is absolutely not the sort of weather anyone should ever drive in.
Nah I would
Random user #74652819
My mom once drove in rain that was hitting down so hard on the windshield. In his video some things are still foggy visible. I couldn’t even friggin see ANYTHING out any of the windows. My DRIVING TEACHER dad was also in the car calm, while my mother and I were freaking out.
I would, I like storms
@@Martin-xh1hd Maybe you like storms, but it is too dangerous to drive in conditions like that with such extremely poor visibility and slippery roads.
Come to Oklahoma.... lmaoo
Seems like the most sensible thing to do would have been to pull over ..... and do your filming and then go again when it lightens up.... certainly safer than speeding up and working your camera. The rain was lovely, why not enjoy it?
Two months late but………. He had to poop 💩
wow, the sun was kind of poking through as well; good driving!
Can you say “driving way too fast for the conditions”?
J McIntosh he’s excited
Driving way too fast for the conditions!
how yall think this is fast...
Also playing with the camera phone while driving.
Florida where the smell of rain, Meth, and good old human depression fill the air as thick as the humidity.
This should be our state slogan
Shawn Thompson you’re telling me it isn’t?
This is Las Vegas lol
Its not Florida! That's Las Vagas!
You brought up a great point, why are so many people depressed in Florida when we live in such a paradise compared to other places in the U.S.???
the window wipers looked like they were trying so hard to clean the windows 💀💀
My name is Kenny Boren lived about 5 miles north Eloy Az from 2003 -2009. Arizona getting some pretty wicked strom during Monsoon Season, I've seen rain horizontal, lots of lighting. Come back from Davis Monthan Air Base after work it was raining so hard I had to get off I-10 park wait for it to lighten up, because I could'nt determin the lanes and the whippers could'nt keep up. That's one thing I do miss moving back to Eastern Washington is those storms. Kenneth Boren...
I once rode through it on my bike. Didn't know anything about it. It was like a bucket of water has been poured on you. I was grasping for breath sometimes as if i was submerged in water
Ujjawal X are you joking? You couldn’t breathe???
Nature’s waterboarding
He is not joking i did the same thing
@@patrickcasey7617 America is Terrorists bombing the middle East so nature decided to bomb us instead
I've had sudden rain that was so heavy it took my breath away.
Been on my bicycle miles from nowhere outside of Tucson and got hit by a couple of these. Went from 100 degrees plus dry to really cold wet and shivering in about one minute. Ten minutes later it's sunny, hot and steamy.
From a tropical country, experience them every raining season couple times. At the very worst, there will be water streaming down the wind shield like some one pouring the car with a hose.
Tbh, it's fun and comforting to me.
Man, we used to get these literally every day during the Summer when we lived in Mississippi
Always on the highway too
Microburst...
Is a terminology understatement....
Those are harsh....
Dangerous....
I was in one and my house almost lost the front window screen and I live in a oven state
If you think microbursts are bad, check out downbursts
@@progenitor_amborella Downbursts are the same thing dude lol.
@@tomiyu2297 no they aren't they are similiar but downbursts are like microbursts on steroids, my house got hit by one.
If u think microbursts are bad look up a derecho
i love how the rainbows just outside of it like oh it’s okay, it’s just my friend he’s a bit mad atm
EDIT lmao im famous now
More than 200 likes and no comments, well now there's one :)
😂😂😂
Follow it to Dairy Queen......
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What does ass to mouth have anything to do with this?
this is such an honest title, the opposite of clickbait. thank u
In New England we get these a lot... but usually full of snow. At least you don't have to shovel rain after it falls on top of annoyingly making it 10x harder to drive, slide, and control.
Rain?!? Phht just wait til it's over then continue.
Snow!?? Stop, shovel yourself out, drive 500 ft; repeat until destination or out of gas, whichever comes first.
I will definitely pull over next time.
I would just pull over and be like "ya done?"
I should have for sure..
@@andrewhergenrother8704 you know its a good youtuber, when they still respond to comments after 1 year
TUTORGAMESZ and picks his title/comments so appropriately lmao
Yeah he should’ve
Exactly. Park & wait it out. Driving blind is asinine.
This dude must be a storm chaser because there's no way in the underworld I'm still driving thru this...😁😁😁🥴✌✌
I know. I would have pulled over at the first opportunity.
Its not that bad. 🤭
Unless you are just trying to get home.
whaaat? its not thaaat baaad
eddie Dickens I don’t think it’s like this from Virginia up. We’ve had pretty heavy rains but I don’t think I’ve ever seen rains that bad where I’m from except for the edges of hurricanes
Look y’all, he drove through a storm. Not even a thunderstorm. LMAO
Underrated comment.
This is a rare microburst, not just a storm. Microbursts are rare and fascinating, get out and stop ruining comment sections.
@@santerimyl no u
A microburst is a thunderstorm that unleashes its energy all at once, creating a very strong downdraft, therefore causing damaging winds and very heavy rain. The winds in a microburst can reach up to 100 mph, which is the same as an EF1 tornado
I was proud to see people actually treat dead traffic lights as a 4 way. Where I'm at it's crazy. No one looks. They just go for it. As far as the microburst, the visibility was too bad. I would have pulled over.
I should have pulled over for sure
@@andrewhergenrother8704 well it depends how fast the storm is moving it if it's moving less than 10 mph you might as well drive through it because it's going to take a at least 30 minutes to get through wherever you pull over at
this should be a tutorial on EXACTLY what to look for when you should turn around and NOT drive forward. A freaking rainbow appears and it looks like a tornado coming, turn around. This is how you wake up in oz!
😂😂
If this were a bad supercell, that microburst could have easily been a rain-wrapped tornado. Luckily I don't think there was any rotation to it, just a stereotypical microburst. Those can also bring baseball sized hail down with them too in buckets so I wouldn't be too anxious to drive into one.
You would’ve known it was a tornado cause of the sirens lol
@@IsaacIsDead1 Nah, if this happened to me I'd hope I'd hear the sirens, but no guarantee where I live. I'm miles outside of the nearest town in a very rural area in a trailer with no storm cellar 🥲
@@PsychoticWolfie buy a tornado alert and install in your house
Seen a lot of those. Where it really gets fun is when it happens as you are taking care of the farm animals. Most are pretty placid about rain but there are always a couple that lose their dang minds and get pretty testy about it.
2:05 I skipped a bit and shit escalated when a rock hit his windshield. It's like missing a few chapters in a book.
Floridians: What's the big deal? We get stuff like this all the time 🤷🏻♀️
except they don't, this isn't just a bad thunderstorm, this is a sudden downdraft causing surface winds around and in the microburst to increase, higher the shear, stronger the microburst, this also explains why rain is so heavy.
Exactly. It's just a little rain
NoU Arkansas things like this used to happen in Ocala almost every week.
@@nouarkansas9386 these happen all the time in the summer in Florida
Yeah hurricane season
I've been in plenty of those, but when I had the chance, I would pull over and try to get some cover until it was over. Very dangerous driving.
Sprinklers wasn't working so here you got the whole bucket
In Texas, we call that “rain”(pronounced: ray-ne)
Its called rain in Australia as well.
And virginia
And Maryland
And Illinois
And California
Zeus taking a dump be like...
That would be micro hail
More like taking a big pee lol
@@Julian-ns3it Zeus had a Big Gulp earlier.
Lol
Nah, vomit
Everyone be like ‚pull over!‘ but why is no one seeing the opportunity to Film Tokyo drift 2 here
Lost my shit at the end when he was yelling at that one driver who was literally just sitting in the gated area like "La Dee Da" 🤣
This guy was brave enough to drive all the way home
I would’ve pulled into a nearby gas station tbh I wouldn’t have driven all the way home
Brave or dumb
You'd better just sit where nothing is above you that isn't made out of concrete or anything under rock material. Because sitting under a gas station roof, where you pump your gas, while that shit is happening. Just think about it. This microburst in the video aint the strongest one ever. That roof would collapse right on top of you.
If those things can be taken away like trailers in tornadoes and stuff, it can definitely be flattened by one of these.
LSSJ
I wouldn’t have pulled under the tin roof of course what I meant was I would’ve pulled into a parking space, we tend to have thick fog and blizzards and heavy hail storms often in my area but I’m still not used to driving well with low visibility like my dad is
Me: wow beautiful rainbow what a cute little rain shaft
5 mins later : What the f**k
*Mother Nature cackling in the background* 🤣
Me: let's drive into the storm
My brain: why? No
Me: free car wash
My brain: okay
I'm pretty sure it's 4:11 minutes as the video only goes that much but whatever
Cameras in videos like this tend to make visibility look worse than it is by focusing on the water on the window, which makes anything further away blurred. Whereas your eyes focus on the road rather than the water running down the window. That said, the visibility was still atrocious.
Almost hit a car turning, then almost went on the sidewalk right after. Shouldve pulled over dood
I thought it was because of him being worried about whatever was flying and hit his windshield
@@skip6978 More of a reason to pull over
That’s on Eastern Ave in Henderson/Las Vegas. That shit is exactly how it is! You can’t brake, you have to coast and hope for the best. Gotta love monsoon season
I was 12 or 13 years old when I had this exact same experience, only I was running across a field with my friend to a nearby old boarded up warehouse to get out of the rain. Most terrifying 10 seconds of our lives.
The only time I remember getting hit this hard by rain happened when I was heading home from work several years ago. The downpour was so bad that I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me due to how flooded my windshield was. I had to pull over and wait for several minutes.
Me being a car guy: "PORSCHE TURN AROUND!!!!"
Me being a former Moore Oklahoma Resident: "UPLOADER TURN AROUND! Stop driving toward that cloud that is touching the ground!!!"
Was your house ok from the Moore tornado 🙏
That's not a Porsche just a Beetle
@@alexsaab8089 I don't know if you're joking but that's a Porsche 911 Turbo.
@@zakrylee9918 no it's a Cayman
@@zakrylee9918 oh, yea the red one is a 911
I’m really frustrated that you didn’t just pull over 😂
@Gyp Rosetti 😂😂😂😂 oh lord lol
@Gyp Rosetti bruh
@@kenzieradityatirtarahardja7469 he didn’t even spell my name right, and it’s right here 😂😂
@@fortherAch lmao
@Gyp Rosettie I’m really frustrated you and I aren’t dating.
Pretty hard to believe that’s in Las Vegas! I used to live there and I can tell you for sure, any rain we got there was an event!
These types of storms can be extremely dangerous because they can pop out of nowhere and cause straight line damaging winds similar to a weak severe thunderstorm me and my dad drove through a microburst yesterday and it only took about 20 minutes for it to turn from verga which is rain that falls but doesn't hit the ground to a full-blown microburst with heavy downpours and gusts up to 45 miles an hour it was crazy and there was a construction zone in all the barrels were like flying across the road a lot of people may wonder why the construction people didn't know the storm is coming they may have known but it developed so quickly they probably didn't have enough time because the storm only finally turned into heavy rain and or strong wind gusts only a few minutes before it hit the construction zone the storm we drove through yesterday was west of Austin Texas on 71 between Spicewood and briarcliff
Comment section: “Our climate/weather is FAR MORE DISASTROUS than yours 🥴🥴”
People gatekeeping rain lmao
That was asinine, pull over and wait it out! Yeesh, what a idiot.
He’s driving like he’s at NASCAR
Kevin Harvick is the best driver fyi
Nah he was going in a straight line not circles
I swear this guy started driving faster as it started to rain more
Okay so one thing ive learned since becoming an expat, when visibility becomes that low you A. SLOW down and B. pop on those hazard lights.
At 2:14 I saw that line of heavy rain on the road and knew you were in for it. Once you're down to 30 feet of visibility it's time to find a parking lot and maybe park right up next to the building or in a corner somewhere. If you're on the highway when this happens, all you can do is hold on tight.
Also, I find amberized sunglasses cut through the glare really well and allow you to see further, and allow you to spot these weather formations earlier.
It's not necessarily the color that filters out glare, but more the polarization of the glasses, it makes a huge difference when there's reflections on your windows
@@Sodium_Hypobromite Amberized non-polarized glasses do a better job than polarized glasses.
The main glasses I wear now are polarized and amberized but I think the polarization is about 5 degrees off from one side to the other, so other peoples' car windows blink at me. It was pretty distracting for a while but now it's background noise.
They were cheap.
Is it normal to drive holding your camera?
Justin Overholtzer nah it’s illegal
Probably on his dashboard
@@familyfun5301 Nope. It's quite obvious it's handheld, which is totally irresponsible in perfect weather and criminally negligent under these conditions.
@@TheRealLaughingGravy stfu
@@kevinbushracing58 Enjoy that $500-$1000 ticket then.. And possible License Suspension depending on the state..
in the words of Trixie Mattel: "pull over, Beverly!"
Lol on the 3 min in afternoon in Florida… we have them as well in Alabama but, no as common as Florida gets them. My wife is from Florida so, seen my share of them.
Him and the others: Oh no. A heavy, rainy storm and the visability is almost lost. What should i do?
Him and the others: Let us keep the speed or even speed up.
And distract ourselves by pulling our phone out to film!
It’d be excusable if it were a dashcam, but filming the road with your phone while driving even in good conditions is putting everyone around you at risk. Do not do this.
Wow, I've never heard or/and before
Sounds like the Most german Reaction to me
@@chrishunter8884 it's a mixed bag. We have people like that a lot in Germany but the average (sane) drivers slow down during snow, heavy rain and fog. Knowing stuff like that is even part of the theoretical and practical tests of the driver's license exams.
@@k.r.99 there‘s Sane drivers in germany?
This is why I always put RainX on my windshield to help sheet that type of downpour off so I can see better.
I love these.
I deive through a VERY unpredictable mountain pass often. I hit these on the regular.
Lots of fun when you get over the intensity.
this is what it’s like driving from peoria illinois to chicago
30, 40, 50 years ago we referred to this as a sudden downpour or rain storm and nothing more.
That’s exactly right Nancy Desch. This person does not know what a microburst is. Had he been hit by one (sustained horizontal winds 60-100 mph) he wouldn’t be able to keep driving.
That was until we realized that the phenomenon was knocking planes out of the sky. Scary shit
This is the first ive heard of these things and wtf is wrong with nature
I remember getting hit by one while at college, I sat in my car amazed as the rain came down so hard I couldn’t even see even with the wipers on. Luckily it lasted only five minutes.
0:58
Sounds of the battle bus are heard overhead, indicating the end times.
As a Las Vegas native myself, I can tell all of you commenters that Las Vegas residents don’t know how to drive in rain. Ever. They forget how to drive as soon as it starts raining. Trust me.
This is a pretty weak microburst, all things considered. I've witnessed a microburst so strong as it pushed through, it had enough force to literally flip a whole row of parked cars on the side of a perpendicular street. It also bent a stop sign almost a full 45 degrees. I had to take shelter inside an autobody shop and half the tires inside the garage were blown away and fill the alley behind the building.
This was nothing
I’m still trying to figure out what part of it was a microburst. All I see is a rain storm with high strong straight line winds.
Bill Pinner That’s what a microburst is.
Yes similar one like that went over my house around a year ago, I had outdoor furniture, after that microburst I had a chair sized hole in my window and a car that got flopped over, luckily it's all fixed now but I legit thought it was a tornado or some crap at the time.
Erica Ferguson that’s a tornado
It was something to someone.
I love how he's filming with one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel while its pouring down