God sending a plague?

[Old Crank]

Grasshopper groups so large they showed up on weather radar.


Gigantic swarm of grasshoppers flying into Utah is so large it is picked up by weather RADAR
The plague-like surge moving into northwestern Utah late last month was picked up by radar from the National Weather Service
The insects were captured around 6 pm on June 21 heading northeast toward the Great Salt Lake before hitting Tooele, Utah
Swarms of grasshoppers have been terrorizing the state for weeks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12278223/Gigantic-swarm-grasshoppers-flying-Utah-large-picked-weather-RADAR.html

[True Dough]

1. I'd rather deal with the grasshoppers

than Trump and his acolytes.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I'm glad they caught them all

"The insects were captured around 6 pm on June 21 heading northeast toward the Great Salt Lake before hitting Tooele, Utah"

[Old Crank]

6. I think

that was captured on the radar not physically captured. Based on interviews of farmers.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. But that's what the article said! I take these things literally. /nt

[hatrack]

9. Freeze!! Legs in the air!! ALL of them!!!!

[GreenWave]

13. Well I am going to represent them in the court.

Here I am with one of them...

[herding cats]

3. Turns out it was chaff from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — What was thought to be a swarm of grasshoppers appearing on the United States National Weather Service’s northern Utah radar was actually chaff, the U.S. National Weather Service Salt Lake City Utah announced on their Facebook.

The National Weather Service noticed news stories going around about the grasshoppers and took to Facebook to negate them on Saturday, July 8.

After further investigation about the grasshoppers, the National Weather Service determined that the “most likely cause of the signature” on Wednesday, June 21, was chaff from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Chaff, according to the National Weather Service Salt Lake City’s Facebook, is a “relative substance sometimes deployed by the military to confuse radars (those that guide missiles, for example) and it can confuse our radars as well.”

https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/swarm-of-grasshoppers-appearing-on-ut-radar-turns-out-to-be-chaff-nws-reports/

Life close to military bases is often weird.

[dalton99a]

4. And Mormon crickets in Nevada and Idaho

(Nevada Department of Transportation)

[vercetti2021]

5. I thought we already got a plague

I mean Trump supporters seem to be the next thing to locusts

[Blues Heron]

7. more likely all that rain and snow last winter

[dweller]

10. A plague of chaff ?!?

In this humidity ? Oh the humanity 😫


✌🏻

[yonder]

11. We get cyclic invasions of (Mormon Crickets) in our area of southern Idaho too.

So far, so good this year, for the most part.

Few things are more disgusting than having no choice other than to crunch ones way from here to there by hiking, biking or driving through the invading hordes.

Can be dangerous too as their crunched up remains coat paved roads with a foul and greasy but more importantly, hazardously slick riding/driving surface.

[roamer65]

12. Damn I was hoping they would eat the Mormon cathedral in SLC.

Or wherever the fuck it is in Utah.