Torchageddon

Can it not I just checked the radar after seeing a view flashes and I was shocked to see the mass of heavy rain and storms heading towards SON. Highest winds of the summer ongoing.

I got my first CGs of 2020 last night from some nebulous storms that were originally together then quickly were falling apart precip wise. I saw a bunch of nice streaks in the sky. I'm wary of storms here in Sept and advise that's when to take them seriously in my neck of the woods. Looks like last night was right on cue.

I'm surprised you didn't get a drop from that, I probably got 60-80mm of rain. Lambton and Essex had 130 mm from earlier in the day.

I just had my top thunderstorm of 2020 so far, just like 2 years ago today when my first storm also took place. Even after all that rain a few hours ago, it just dumped even more while the humidity is continuing to rise. Also the most amount of rain in a night of the year. No severe warning from EC on this one (not that this is warn worthy anyways), they issued it for something that wasn't a storm earlier though...good job guys.

I've encountered a few peeps who agree with me that forecasts are still poor even going over 4 years now. Its even worse now probably due to the lack of obs from aircraft and such. The complacency in K-W will mean if there is ever a severe tornado like that its not going to be pretty injury and death toll wise. I'm getting my moderate sort-of rain currently. I find it strange that on GRLevel 3 the returns are pretty modest but then on TWN radar (which is beyond terrible and has been all but neglected) it shows heavy thunderstorms. I'm getting light rain mostly, surprisingly. EDIT: I'm getting clocked by the heaviest rains I've had this year, just continuous with some rumbles of thunder. Strange how the radar almost is ahead of reality as it was showing heavy returns and light to no rain, but then as the line sunk south I'm still getting drenched.

There was a sharp temperature gradient today in southern ON. Toronto was feeling like 30C (air temp maybe 25C?) while in Kingston it was 19C. Windsor felt like near 40C.

This is the most insane stat of Laura potentially, I can't make sense of it. If Laura was heading for Kincardine and Grey-Bruce county was as flat as the Gulf coast then I'd have a living room full of Lake Huron water.

I was put under a severe thunderstorm watch just a hour ago: Issued at 11:20 Wednesday 26 August 2020 Conditions will become favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms beginning in the afternoon. Hazard: Wind gusts up to 100 km/h, nickel size hail and locally heavy rain. A tornado is also possible. Timing: This afternoon and into the evening. I wouldn't mind a twister spinning away in a field near me this afternoon, I could watch Laura spin at the same time.

SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...26.4N 91.4W ABOUT 280 MI...450 KM SSE OF LAKE CHARLES LOUISIANA ABOUT 290 MI...465 KM SE OF GALVESTON TEXAS MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...115 MPH...185 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 310 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...963 MB...28.44 INCHES 3 hours off.

963 mb by 5 am EDT.

I had a cell a few minutes to my west from around 11 pm dive south. All the convection came around midnight so TWN map actually did verify. My landfall guess for Laura is 110 mph at McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge just barely in TX. Reverse Jinx.

Which cliché will be invoked at the end of Laura? Will it be "If she just had 12 hours more time over water" or maybe the "magical windshear"? The only impressive thing about this season is running through the name list. You don't have a dissipating Marco near the Gulf coast at the end of August in a true blockbuster season.

Strong storms were forecast for yesterday evening here, then changed to partly cloudy. Then the two rounds of strong storms both at noon and from 5-11 pm tonight were also removed. Overnight I may have a chance, but I guess the chance is 1%. Its been a very boring summer but a great one. I hope Friday's rain showers are removed.

I'm under a tornado watch, and only Grey and Bruce counties are under one which may be a first. The sun is full, but I hear a rumble or two in the distance. Those cells looked sheared and highly unusual for my boring locale. I have a weird vibe, like Aug 20 vibes .

What happened to the thread in the New England sub? I saw off-topic banter non=stop which I assume has something to do with it being missing. What I remember the most from that thread was this line, "Kids in September need to be back in a physical classroom learning environment, PERIOD!"

Did you cook up the more expensive frozen food before it spoiled? BBQ?

Just like with everything else that is changed, it then transforms into poo. I can't think of the last time a weather product page was changed and it was actually better than before. Remember Intellicast? Oh wait, its gone too. Tryin' not to be a downer, but as August started my hopes for going Greek were dashed. There will be a lot of magical bummers yet to come.

As soon as I saw that 240 hr frame I felt like I wanted to punch my screen. We better not see that **** on the next run. Manitoba tornadoes have been Canada's most fearsome and incredible for 9 years now, and Canada's most photogenic tornado of 2020 occurred yesterday ejecting two 18-year olds out of their car and killing them. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/powerful-storms-spawn-large-tornado-in-southern-manitoba-scarth-virden Tons of different shots of the beast. I think the casualties are the youngest since the Aug 20 2009 Durham ON tornado.

Counties nearby were put under a tornado warning this afternoon with a large area under a tornado watch later. When those warnings went out I saw no rotation or a couplet as claimed. I was put under a severe thunderstorm watch and a TOR watch with the storms 100 miles to my east and dark, wet, overcast conditions IMBY. On TWN they had numerous technical difficulties to put it lightly. Instead of cutting to Mark R out tracking the rainshowers wrapping around, they went to commercial. Then once the 2nd batch of tornado warnings came out just at the most critical moment for the channel it cut to a pre-recorded segment just as the paper was given to her to read out. There was a fixation on focusing on the radar timestamps with the cells. I love TWN.

Severe storms were hyped for days here in ON for Weds but as far as I know nothing happened in SON at all, even EC didn't nibble and send any warnings or watches out (they issue severe thunderstorm warnings for heavy rain showers that have already passed through).

Grocery stores here aren't enforcing the mask mandates, some employees aren't wearing anything and no one is cleaning carts now.

What would happen if he had pumped his gas first and then went in to pay? This hypothetical also assumes no CC terminal attached outside to each pump.

I just got an alert on my phone of a tornado warning for my region, I just see some weak rotation south of Clifford that is now gone. Its linear "crapped-the-bed" squall line that moved through so I dunno? There were 3 separate tornado warnings including near London and Mitchell (tornado capital of Ontario). Very dark morning with increasing rumbles of thunder. Imagine if every mid-day in the summer was like this.

That should be something I do one day, experience 100F in the middle of the night. A good trip I'd say! It was mainly cloudy for the 3rd straight day today, awful.

That's actually what I was hoping for yesterday minus the cloudiness