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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.

Yesterday, we had wind gusts of 30mph , up to 50mph at Denver, from the southeast. Today, Fort Collins has a dew point of 54, and SPC mesoanalysis shows 2000 J/kg of CAPE, although probably no rain will happen. The CAPE should shift up to Wyoming for the severe weather risk later. Edit: We've been drylined. The moisture is shifting to Wyoming.

We've had a couple of tornado warnings east of Pueblo CO that have been for confirmed tornadoes tonight.

We will have a narrow area of 80-95 degrees on the high plains on Tuesday, while the Mississippi Valley is cool.

There are 4 tornado warnings right now in the same area. In the past 3 days, there have been 3 tornado reports on the SPC storm reports.

This severe-warned storm is just about to go over I-25. My place just got rain for 10 minutes.

A tornado watch has been issued for parts of New York state.

A storm is getting going near Parker / C470 area. Maybe Mayjawintastawm can see that.

My area had a high of 61 and a low of 39 on Sunday. Yesterday, we had morning rain and evening rain. We had a high of 46 and a low of 35, which was quite below normal for this time of year. Today, it feels so much warmer, because it is partly sunny. We have a light wind but yet only 57 degrees, with a low of 39 this morning. Going back and looking at the MesoWest web site, my immediate area had a low of 37 on 5/8, a low of 37 on 5/6, and low of 35 on 5/5. Fort Collins temperature is at about average for the month. Models and forecasts generally show some showers and thunderstorms for our area on Thursday and Friday. Seasonal snowfall maps for Midwest/West. The Ohio Valley averaged 50% of average snow. Southern Colorado has now been put in to areas of D2-D3 drought, but no drought for northern Colorado, except an area of D0-D1 drought closer to Goodland, Kansas.