Torchageddon

Blew past even 50mm from the 3rd round, even more lightning nearly at 1K strikes now!! 50 in 3 hr is extreme in my climo.

The storms were 4 hours early as a beefcake MCS is plowing through. Its been a long time since I've had a 'awn storm. You couldn't see the darkness coming til it was right on top nearly. Curious if the smoke caused that. Fr. lightning with constant thunder, going to be shy of an inch after its not moving fast and I see some backbuilding. Now I've blown way past 1" I'm around 38mm so maybe 50 by the time its done! More convection building to my west, WUN was wildly off but I don't know about TWN. There is no watch nor warning - funny since this is nearly the best storm I've had of 2026 and for literally nothing I often get warned.

Anyone else feeling like crap due to the smoke? I'm pretty sure its from that as I started feeling sluggish from the dim light yesterday, it was brighter today so half to a 3rd the brightness but its the extreme AQI values causing headache feeling, low motivation, low thoughts, hard to focus or think clearly, strange bodily temp sensations sometimes, pseudo-malaise, etc. Can't imagine what is happening to the vulnerable right now. With that said I saw more out this aft old and young alike and strangely many vehicles have their side windows down. Guess they want to fill their passages up with ash.

Don't count on it. Yesterday it was so dim that there weren't even any optical effects. Time to break out the PH test kit. There is a pocket to my east of less smokey air as Barrie ON was at 180 last check, unfortunately its not moving my way it is only sagging south to Oshawa. I'm still around 380 but I'm on Day2 of this shit and trust me its far worse than you think it is sustained for this long. I'm a healthy adult who has tried to remain indoors (I briefly went out) and I'm feeling ill effects I know are from this. You almost want to buy a good air purifier and stow away in the basement somewhere.

I thought there was a backup like the old GOES but that was long ago probably not the same. Using WEST I can see our region but I want to zoom in even if its low-res.

What is used instead for important matters that only visible sat products can provide? I can't ken this happening for so long before for GOES East.

Your forced to work in that? From COD: WTF? Where is the sight now?

Mine is 285, by far the highest I've ever seen. Looking out in the pitch I see what looks like fog particles and falling, but its likely another 3 let word. WUN keeps getting got that there is rain nearby or that its possible - its picking up the radar artifacts from the ash up in the sky. God help us if it actually rains.

My RH freakishly stayed around 85% most of the aft til 5:30 pm when it finally began to drop. Yesterday mid-aft it was 45%. The temp very slowly creeped up only to 24C - not surprisingly. Off by 5-6C. Any item with fabric felt damp still as if it never aired out from the morning dew. Looking at broad radar, I suspect there is a very long teleconnection happening all the way from Dauphin MB to Syracuse NY!!! Its a thick weak band that fragments at times. Never seen anything like that.

My weather station showed just 1200 lux of brightness at 10:30 a.m.; that is insanity! For this part of July and time should be at least 60,000 maybe closer to 80K right now. Not even in 2023 did this degree of dimness befall us. Perfect day to be downstairs or in a room with maximum light brightness. Me and others are feeling sluggish as low light at the start of a day is deleterious to energy and mind. I'm seeing smoke-enhanced cloud streams on sat over me adding to the darkness, and even blips and clutter on radar in a peculiar way. Smoke warning mentions temps will be lower than forecast, its dramatically lower here I'm only at 23C and its noon. Originally going to be 30C; we're not getting there unless smoke thins this eve and we get a rally.

Feels like we just woke up in a bowl of urine this morn. When I woke at dawn and saw pure darkness I knew this was going to be bad.

I'm having a run-of-the-mill hot day of 33C/90F, much ado about nil. Every time a 36 is put on the ledger it fails here, lame.

101F/39C at downtown Toronto, Pearson cooler.

TWN increased tomorrow's temp again to now 36C/97F, pretty rare value but many times has fallen short. Ontario had their highest temp since the Dust Bowl! Peak at Armstrong ON at 40.7/104F!

I'll admit that's the first time I've read 'siting' in a met wx station context. That will be something for you if the century mark is reached. Are you rooting for it?

I wonder if its going to be warmer on 'mas day than it was this past June 18th? It was in the low 50s mid-aft that day.

After some showers and a dip to 24C/76F today, this will be the coldest day for the foreseeable future. My next heat event starts on Sunday with Tues back to 33C/90F. This has been a hot July.

Perfect summer day here, 29C/84F with a touch of humidity and mainly blue skies but started clouding up at an odd time: 4pm. Typically its 10am. The next 4 days will also be similar with consistent highs and lows. This is the regime I wish was around always.

YYZ is up to 36C/98F with a humidex of 48. There is a fast MCS outflow heading towards me, some new gen from that is among the most rapid I've seen. Hourlies of course didn't show much chance earlier for any.

Yesterday I had a late day rally up to 33C but I still wasn't uncomfortable even cycling in the evening. Then the power went out for 5 hours, I was still good. I wake up this morning, I'm not good. It is soup time of 90s by 10am, TWN has me at 35C humidex of 47 coming - if the power goes out again

Woke up to 24C/77F maybe locally more like 25C as of 7:30, I see CU in the distance with minor haze - that's my kind of morning! Low of 21C only. They adjusted for 44 humidex.

Short term forecast was mainly cloudy this aft, I know not what the pops % were but it was pretty low. Gets dark at noon, find light to mod rain coming fast outta nowhere. This is the 2nd worst short term peg this year. The aft is cooked. My 7 day is changing wildly run to run so any precip is a pure guess.

Tues the 30th looks to be the hottest showing 35C/94F with a staggering humidex of 47! That is rare and unlikely to verify but my guess is 44. That's going to be a real beat down since we're still not used to any heat. Also impressive is the string of very warm lows maybe 4 nights at 23C+.

It'll be nice not to have to wear slippers and a hoodie indoors, I have 9 months of that to endure as is; I don't need more of that in summer ffs.

Yeah mid-day it wasn't loading much. They must have done some maintenance as now the 'yes' emoji shows up instead of a generic broken icon. Anyone else following the insanity in Europe with their heatwave? Paris may have 6 days near 40C/104F in a row!