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Interesting note for Raindancewx: Go look up this 1 hour long video of the sun. This video should have enough info to show nearly one complete cycle of sunspots. NASA released a truly epic video on Wednesday that compiles 10 years of the Solar Dynamics Observatory's views of our star.

I think there's a possibility for a damaging squall line in SW Michigan. This model run is not really an outlier or anything like that.

So, how do the 00z model runs change the outlook significantly?

My area had a brief rain shower last night, and today, we had a couple of thunderstorms (no hail.) Tomorrow, the Front Range may see some more areas of thunderstorms, with large hail as a possibility. It is nice that it's not totally dry recently. At least my area is getting close to average for rainfall, with, probably at least 1.52" for the month.

This squall line has already produced several severe wind reports in the last hour, and intensify to produce many more severe wind reports.

possible 2-3" hail with increasing rotation northeast of Great Bend, KS

Up to 7000 J/kg today, and it's only 1:00PM Central

I am a little surprised that they upgraded to moderate risk today (wind, hail only)

Many areas around DFW got around 2" of rain, but some storm cells must have sat over Dallas for a long time.

One Arizona wildfire has grown to 151,000 acres at the same time a COVID-19 troubles.

I was looking at the radar for a thunderstorm in Amarillo, and then I came upon something I hadn't thought about for a long time. Coming from the north, US-87/287 splits into two streets southbound, two streets northbound. It then combines into a single street that is US-87. Then US-87/I-27 goes to the south of town, but US-287 goes east, after combining with I-40 at the large interchange. US-287 then splits away from I-40.

Sunset last night was a little red, possibly due to forest fires in Arizona.

Picture of the derecho on June 6

A couple of days ago, I was going to post about how hot it is going to be. Today, I found some GEFS runs that show a cool and wet period coming up. So maybe this could be a nice (short) period of drought relief for CO/KS, possibly NM and WY. The way things are going, it is going to take many months to get out of the drought in southern Colorado.

By the way, it snowed yesterday, north of Lake Superior

My parents texted me and said it was 97 degrees in Toledo. Maximum temperatures (Mesowest plot)

My area had wind gusts and quickly dropping temperatures after the cold front. Then, at about 9:45PM, the temperature had fallen to about 45 degrees, and a hailstorm came in with 0.25" hail, wind gusts of 40 mph, and lightning. Then, I think we just had some rain with maybe some lightning, with continued wind gusts over 30mph. there was snow in Laramie and also in most areas of the mountains.

I saw that this had been retweeted by Reed Timmer (map is from the SPC)

Interesting pic/video here. My place had about 45mph wind gusts and 3-5 minutes of heavy rain, and several rumbles of thunder. It was pretty exciting. Most of the time I don't see strong wind with thunderstorms around here. Wind gusts were up to 58mph at Fort Collins-Loveland airport. This was an extremely unusual wind event/derecho for the high plains, as most other derechos/ wind events start farther east.

There was a tornado about 4 miles east of Orlando ( 7:30PM eastern)

Some low-rainfall severe storms over the mountains and plains. Edit: some severe storm damage from wind in the Denver area. Edit: DIA had a gust to 78mph with blowing dust and a thunderstorm.

I think this is my first severe storm watch of the year

10 years ago --- 6/5/10 - My old hometown of Perrysburg was nearly hit by a deadly tornado after 11:00PM. The tornado hit near State Route 795 in Lake Township, hit Lake High School and near Metcalf Airport, also known as Toledo Executive Airport, and continued on to do up to EF4 damage to structures in Millbury, directly east of I-280 and State Route 795. Severe weather parameters increased at nighttime due to a warm front, or possibly just strengthening of the low-level jet. My dad took pictures of train cars that had been flipped near Toledo Executive Airport. NWS Cleveland web page for this: https://www.weather.gov/cle/event_20100605_MillburyTornado old data applied to new GRLevel3 program

This storm was between Buffalo, SD and Faith SD, with a brief 80 dBz

Last night, an MCS in Missouri was moving westward, and a squall line in Kansas was moving eastward. They met up, and some storms formed a bridge between them. Coming up later today and Saturday, the SPC has an enhanced risk outlook for South Dakota on both days.