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I feel like this is something we go through every summer...especially the past few years and especially if the spring was a bit on the drier side. During the summer months the majority of our precipitation comes from convection which obviously is going to be more spotty in nature. Perhaps there will be some occurrences where we get widespread convection and precipitation. Obviously this summer that didn't happen so naturally things are going to be drier. Are we in a drought...sure short-term we are but the long-term picture I don't think it indicates that...maybe locally some areas are worse off. But this is far from serious drought. Now if we went through the fall and things remained dry...well perhaps the pictures changes a bit but just looking at the pattern moving forward looks like we'll see plenty of rain chances upcoming.

Down in Branford for the firs time since last Thursday...wow. I usually get off exit 14 on 91 and go back roads from Wallingford through North Branford then into Branford and holy crap...literally every single house I passed had piles of cut up trees, limbs, branches on the curb. The Dunkin Donuts I go to had a huge clearing of trees in the back too. Even the trees not taken down the damage to them is evident...tops severely damaged or even some trees with a good amount of leaves ripped off.

yeah Euro is going nuts lol. I wonder what algorithms are used for those charts though...seems like the Euro charts across many locations are wacky...especially temperatures and snowfall. There are some west locations it goes nuts...even with Anchorage it goes nuts. During the heat wave in Oakland a few weeks back I think the Euro charts were spitting out 60's for Oakland while they were in the 90's.

Talk about some wild pattern swings in the west...70's, 80's, and 90's across parts of MT, WY, and CO through Monday then some areas could get snow then back into heat a few days later. ahh the good ole Inter-mountain West

man...I'm loving how this thread has kicked off. This is some excellent discussion/information. See what happens when y'all can be nice and civil

Part of me wishes I had stayed at work that day but I don't totally regret it b/c what I saw in Waterbury with the winds was awesome. And where the tornado had first touched down was about 11-miles away or so. That was an incredible radar presentation too. I'm a little shocked though the damage was classified as several microbusts...could have been classified as at least a macroburst and I thought that looked like mainly RFD winds down that way.

met summer is over I cringe to think that within...well probably now gotta start carrying a sweatshirt around or at least have one on when leaving in the morning.

Difficult to truly assess b/c of the accuracy of the database but this period has been by far the most active. (Except for a few years span in the 70's but that's when the database is a bit questionable). But thankfully they all have been relatively on the weaker side. The last biggie was Hamden F4 in 1989. But haven't had a 2 since 2006. But there's a chance yesterday could end that streak

the way CT has been the past few years with TORs probably. Will have at least one confirmed yesterday...maybe 2. That would bring the total to 6 this year. 9 in 2018 1 last year 5-6 this year dayum

Video taken from my job

I haven’t even looked at Saturday yet lol

Damn I should have e just stayed in Branford...but then I would have been screwed getting home lol. But I had fun in Waterbury. Had a little hail and the strong winds

Here are a few stills I took of this helps any

I like open fields for shelf cloud pics and to see storm structure...but I usually also try to go where there are trees around (just not too close)

I legit got there maybe a minute before that happened. I even broke my camcorder in the process of setting it up. Had I gotten there earlier I could have been under a overhang at the mall entrance

https://youtu.be/vCGHJ-i0xN8

I should have stayed at work

Job in Branford hit hard. Trees down all over (from what I’m told), power lines ripped from building, transformers across street on fire

Possible TDS?

Felt like it. Was a crazy sudden switch of direction with winds...couldn’t see a single thing

I think rotation passed overhead holy shit

Holy shit!!!!!

Going to Naugatuck I think