Craig Powell

Today's severe #weather (#heavyrain, #flooding & #hail) in the #Cape provinces marks the first memorable severe weather day of the 2019/20 Spring/Summer season in #SouthAfrica. Those who follow severe weather events in SA may find these #radar coverage maps of interest.

Timelapse of the Kankakee-Knox Supercell that produced numerous intense to violent tornadoes

Check out this incredible bright green clear slot or moat of sinking air wrapping around the wall cloud as this supercell was primed to drop a #tornado. This is what you want to look for when trying to pinpoint tornadogenesis.

@EmilevanRooyen2 That is impressive!

NOT A TORNADO, but This is WILD!!!! ☁️ 🚫🌪️ It was a scud cloud (Scattered Cumulus Under Deck) or a pocket of condensation under the main cloud overcast. No circulation as we can see when zoomed in, but the best imposter I've seen by a cloud pretending... WOW!!!! 📍 Lewistown in Frederick County MD ⏰ Monday Afternoon May 5 2025 🎥 Thank you Danielle Catanzaro Kinnamont for sharing.

@EmilevanRooyen2 Those are some pretty ripped sofballs.😅

@CPowellWX Softballs on steroids..😆🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

@CPowellWX Holy 💩💩

@CPowellWX Why do they call it "forecasting" while they wait for the shit to go down before "updating " the forecast. Initial warnings were for Kzn and Eastern Mpumalanga. The storm over Pta has been going for nearly 45 now....10 min ago???

@SAWeatherServic From "late evening" (so after sunset) but graphic shows from 01:00 and you issue it at 14:27 (so graphic back-dates the warning by 13.5hrs) and it's not on your website. What happened to CEO saying the website is the hub for severe weather info?

⚠️Yellow level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms Affected area: Gauteng, Limpopo(extreme south-western parts) & Mpumalanga. Validity period: 26 March 2025 late evening until 27 March 2025, 08:59 SAST. #saws #weatheroutlook #southafricanweather

JHB - #Flooding Honeydew / Wilgespruit side

@NWGameStatus @playnewworld Cool, and why is fishing not 1.25×??

Hello Adventurers! After today’s maintenance there was an issue in which unique per-world rules were not being applied correctly. This issue allowed transfers of characters into and out of worlds where transfers were not intended to be possible. This issue was identified and resolved, and the team has been hard at work to mitigate any impacts on world economies. The following actions are being taken to rectify these issues. * All accounts with characters that transferred during the window when the issue was live, and those who took part in trading with transferred characters, have been temporarily suspended. * Length of temporary suspensions is determined based upon the actions taken by the player accounts that impacted the affected worlds, and are subject to change. * All characters created on Seasonal Worlds during the period when the issue was live are deleted, as the characters did not have seasonal rules applied to them correctly. * Territories claimed on the Seasonal Worlds during the period the issue was live are reverted to unclaimed status. * Player to player trading and the trading post remain temporarily disabled on Standard and Seasonal Worlds and will be restored as soon as possible. * Trading post contracts from affected characters are cancelled. * Items and coin traded between players or put into company balances by those who took part in the unintended transfers are removed. * Companies created by those who took part in the unintended transfers have been removed. * Players who used a transfer token during the time period the issue was live are sent back to their original worlds and will receive a transfer token at a later date. We are doing a phased approach to re-enabling worlds and will post updates as they are available, and the team will continue to monitor these worlds. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by these issues and the extended downtime, and appreciate everyone's patience and continued support as we work through them.

@NWGameStatus @playnewworld So your devs/IT personnel went to sleep after implementing the update?? There wasn't a single admin to do exactly this at 23:30PT when the sh*t started properly hitting the fan?? Accounts being suspended but what about the territories that were bought with funds from legacy?

All worlds are going into emergency maintenance in order to investigate ongoing issues. Worlds will be brought back online as soon as is possible.

@PixelsofMark i guess that "fix" was to limit PC to 60fps when there are controller/console players in the lobby? good stuff

PS5 Patch Hey all, we were able to do a quick patch for PS5 that is live now. It improves the situation for those running at 60hz who were having major frame spikes. This should be better BUT not fully fixed. A full fix for both 60hz and 120hz is coming next week as soon as we can get it through testing and cert.

@ACHES @TheVoltinator of course.... because why an anti-cheat do that for us, right?

@TheVoltinator Or just record it and tweet it to me and they’ll get banned.

We're aware of some instances were players are winning and being granted 0 RP and we are investigating. But to be clear: If you leave a match at any point (during the lobby voting, when the match starts, right before the match ends) you will receive max RP loss. You are always incentivized to stay in a game to lose the least RP. If teams are ever uneven 3:2 or worse you will lose no RP at all. Also soon we will enable the matchmaking sanctions for leaving matches, so you will be temporarily banned from ranked matchmaking if you continue to leave games.

@PixelsofMark @TheManofMuffin and let playing the objective count toward ultra

@TheManofMuffin I agree with this! And we are looking at that as well.

Let's talk about weapon leveling/mastery. Attachments for weapons affect gameplay. And people were unlocking attachments slower than we estimated. The faster leveling is in response to that. Weapon Mastery on the other hand does not affect gameplay and is supposed to be something special that shows off your dedication to a weapon. And so the re-balance of levels was in response to that. Now, if you've ever read any of my posts. If you heard me speak. I try to be as honest, open, and transparent as possible with everyone. And I know this change may upset some people. And we are always willing to say we didn't do the right thing and we need to correct. We will own our decisions and will continue to evaluate. That being said I'd love it if you guys gave this change a fair chance. We want to hear from you whether it's positive or negative. Also, this whole system is being redone to be more engaging for everyone. It will be a couple of seasons before we see this but we will be looking at feedback now to improve our future implementation. Love you all!

@PixelsofMark also, this bs of in a match showing local ping (<50ms), but resource monitor showing no remote connection of <200ms needs to be fixed asap. people on different continents cannot both have a local ping in the same match at the same time!

@PixelsofMark imo masteries/camos should be attached to kills and/or headshot kills like good ol' MW2 (2009, not the new crap). attachments take too long to unlock - at least the meaningful ones anyway - so for me, reduce xp per weapon level and camos

@JennyJonescx I did the see the radar dataand the storm at the time of the #tongaat #tornado, yes. Not quite like this though, that is zoomed in and looking at the lowest part of the storm - only available at SAWS. Image is from the SAWS media release. Date: 3 June 2024, time: 16:?? SAST.

@CPowellWX Did you see this at the time of the tornado? I can’t make out dates or time on the picture.

This is by far the most insane example of a hook echo I have ever seen in #SouthAfrica and I spent years looking at #radar data related to #supercell.s & other severe #weather while at #SAWS, and it has a debris ball to boot!!😳 #tongaat #tornado Image: SAWS media release.

@klausminges @vivp7 Only SAWS (or those that access their data, e.g. AfricaWeather) can answer that. They are supposed to be though. But, the SAWS media release proves the Durban radar was on at the time of the #tongaat #tornado and confirms forecast data showed conditions conducive for supercells.

@CPowellWX @vivp7 are these 10 Dopplers all up and running?

We ordinary people were posing the same questions as to how, this weather was NOT detected??? #Tongaat #Tornado