weatherwiz

I saw a dust devil once. Should have honestly been rated...nearly blew me over. It was my senior year of high school back in 2006. I used to do the scorebook for the baseball team. It was a hot (but not humid) day with temperatures probably close to 90. There were no clouds and no breeze. All of a sudden this huge gust of wind kicks up and there were some leaves back by the corner of the school that were rising in a circular motion. It was coming at us. As it crossed into the gravel/sand it started to pick up rocks and dirt. It was an very strong burst of wind. Knocked the coach off the bench and it lifted the medical kit several feet into the air. As it traveled along the field the vortex easily extended hundreds of feet into the air and went clear across the field before dissipating at the end of the field near the road. It had also taken up my papers and you could see papers swirling hundreds of feet into the air. This is the best part...it took the umpires check and it was found the next day in Windsor, CT or Enfield (I forget which town). So it traveled in the air from West Hartford and was found in someone's yard. Getting pelted by the pebbles was not fun...well actually it was

Good ole Dallas where you're more likely to see a tornado touchdown than a Cowboys touchdown

WE NEED A FASTER FRONT TUESDAY. ughhhh please speed up. This is looking a bit tasty...at least compared to this summer's standards.

500 heights > 600m and over a pretty large area. Pretty much going to be an oven under that

I would kill for another pattern like 2008. Just a consistent cold pool aloft setup. June and July were wild with the daily setups and we were even getting severe at night. One of those events I think actually generated the most severe reports in the BOX CWA on record and up until that point I think like 11% of large hail reports in NYS occurred that summer lol. I forget the date in June 2008...maybe June 10 but I had a hail storm where the hail lasted a good 15-minutes. 2007 was solid too. June 5, 2007 actually featured supercells across CT/MA. I remember going into that day the TOR probs were like 0 or maybe 2% from SPC but we were firing off supercells prompting tornado warnings. Winds backed around the pre-frontal and were strong enough to enhance the llvl shear.

At least Tuesday still looks like we could see some storms but the timing of the front looks like it will SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK once again. Anyways shear looks pretty strong and lapse rates may not be overly terrible but all the best ingredients may be out of sync. One thing though is the best shortwave forcing may actually be just south of the international border which may help a bit.

Tuesday looks hot/humid ahead of the front

Was just saying in general. But yeah that certainly is not mid-range. But I seriously hope that 12z GEFS verifies. Over-the-top heat and that pattern is likely to swing some MCS this way. 700 shows a subtle trough in the West so maybe we can get some EML advection around the top of the ridge too. I'm mostly fantasizing here but if you want such potential that is the look to make it happen...doesn't mean that it will though

When I see flips like that on the models within the medium-to-long range I take that as a precursor to a pattern change. Now this doesn't mean the heat builds in...pattern could change which favors an even deeper trough

Gulf could be an area to watch next week...although I don't know what shear is like. Anyways GFS bringing some potential for big rains to southeast Texas.

Maybe I should start and bow my head.

Maybe we can get some SVR Tuesday. We pray...we pray...we PRAY

I would be willing to bet that some of our highest dews likely come from residual tropical systems coming up the coast. I could be wrong here but didn't we see upper 70's dews when the remnants of Katrina passed to our west in 2005?

At the rate we're going we'll have higher dewpoints in December when a strong low pressure goes to our west and we're dealing with a low topped severe squall.

There is something weird with the GFS and highly anomalously hot/cold patterns. It tends to get way overstated with heat and it also overstates extreme cold. Not sure if this applies across the board, but during those extreme cold blasts into say the Plains and even the Ohio Valley the GFS (MOS) will spit out like -20's for lows and the reality ends up being like -12.

9-digits

I saw a cute scud funnel on my drive this morning.

Just lost power. sounded like a transformer blew. thank God I have hot spot on my phone

I am so sick of this stupid freaking pattern. This stupid trough needs to find somewhere else to live. It's utterly depressing just watching all these high heat/dewpoints/instability surges just hit a wall and then advect into the mid-Atlantic. I guess if there is maybe some sliver of hope it's the pattern elsewhere remains very consistent and active so if we ever shake this trough we're going to get into some fun. BUT THIS TROUGH NEEDS TO GO.

That is one massive SLIGHT risk tomorrow

I haven’t looked yet not sure I can take more disappointment

I think 24oz

Well at least I got this

I can dream right

When thunderstorms are a beast they tend to move east