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It's rainy! This is the first time I've seen a person in a poncho on the RMNP webcam. I have deleted the image of the car for privacy reasons. I assume we can say the person is pretty anonymous with the poncho over the face

This is pretty cool. By the way, 5-day forecasts have a fairly good amount of precipitation for Colorado

confirmed tornado near Cleveland (Parma/Seven Hills) initial confirmed tornado warning was near the radar/CLE airport several minutes ago

I bring it up because once every couple of years, Tampa is in the cone of uncertainty, or whatever you might call it. The storm systems have made landfall at various places. No storm has caused a large storm surge at Tampa Bay. Correct me if I am wrong. Tampa has the favorable geography for letting SW winds drive the water into the bay. St. Petersburg now has 31 kt gusting to 40 kt, with the radar picking up at least 50 kts at 2000ft above ground in the general area.

It seems like for the entire time that I've been watching weather, no tropical system has ever brought more than about 30-40 mph wind to Tampa. And this morning, it is 30 something mph gusts at St. Petersburg.

some wind gusts to 44mph, along with some briefly severe thunderstorms or tornado(es) near Ft Lauderdale

Lightning just kind of forgot to happen for a long time here.

That might be an error. I'm seeing 91/24 to 88/31 near you. Colorado has measured visibility vales of 10 miles, but it might be some decent forest fire smoke anyway.

two notable radar images from Indiana tonight (Frankton Indiana had confirmed tornado warning)

Tornado warned supercells in Illinois (805pm central)

Have I ever seen 109 in Montana? I don't know. I know I've seen 105+ in South Dakota

I think I'm starting to notice the forest fire smoke. Things are just a little whitish-yellow high in the sky.

Sorry guys. The forest fire smoke has to happen some time. At least it's not a fire in Colorado. (Not that I know of.) In the next week, the NWS says there will be just some light rains above 6000ft with the monsoon moisture, so, drought values shouldn't change much for the positive.

Oh here we go, new infusion of forest fire smoke from Canada. Don't know if you guys notice it. Also the NWS has air quality alert posted (not sure what the AQI is)

Comparisons of the Super-derecho of June 29, 2012 to the derecho/severe event of a couple days ago. Obviously, the storm of a couple days ago did not continue much toward Ohio or the East Coast. So, a huge difference there. Somewhere back in my distant memory, I think I saved a SPC mesoanalysis of 9000 J/kg of MUCAPE on the night before the super-derecho (June 29, 00z) but I can't seem to be able to prove such a high value existed. The archived ILX shows 7481 J/kg in the morning. So, yeah. Mega-CAPE Mesoscale discussion from June 29, 2012 a couple of days ago

so there was a hurricane gust at Chicago. Don't land any planes at O'Hare!

about a dozen more storm reports just showed up on my screen in the Peoria vicinity

three tornado warnings for the outer metro area

this is the craziest velocity so far. Tornado?

I guess this is a tornado now

brief tornado(es) in NW Des Moines

Chicago area rainfall (Jul 12-15)

Chicago severe-warned storm (60mph recently at Woodridge)

tornado warning near Geneva IL

New severe thunderstorm watch for this area, valid until 1:00 central time