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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.

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

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.

Some pictures from May 29th (1st picture) and today. I got pictures of a storm, which had the most rain over Horsetooth Mountain (shown in picture) and also Fort Collins

My place has a new storm that developed very close to town. There are lightning bolts all over the place, like this

Space-X and NASA have had a successful launch. It is the first time astronauts have launched from Cape Canaveral since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

The storm near you was fairly short-lived. Maybe you got to see a nice anvil or some lightning in the cloud. Today, it's 110 in Phoenix, as an upper-level low offshore from CA helps boost the ridge over the Southwest. That upper low will move towards Oregon, and there should be some chances for severe weather near and east of the Cascades. This is a very unusual situation. We have had some pleasant days. My area had some brief lightning and rain on Wednesday evening. edit: tonight there were a few lightning flashes out to my east a supercell near Cheyenne transitioned to this horseshoe-shaped storm

There are possible tornadoes near Wells, MN and Rowan, IA right now. The storm cells is so small, the moderate/heavy rain may be falling in a 2mi x 4mi corridor in both.

My place may have gotten 0.8" or better. It was fairly cool, with no thunder and lightning. It's a pretty nice to have a day of gentle rain. It helps the plants and crops to have the water sink into the soil. There is not a quick water runoff and the soil is cool. The water doesn't immediately evaporate.

a storm near Columbia SC may have 2" - 3" hail in it.

I guess this is the rotational signature west of Belmont, NC

14 tornado reports yesterday was the highest daily total since 4/23.

I drove down the road to get a clear shot of this storm east of Fort Collins.