Torchageddon

4 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Not in this sub, but some pretty incredible stuff from out at Death Valley California, at Furnace Creek.  They haven't been below 100 degrees (on the hour) since early Saturday morning when it dipped to a frosty 93 degrees.  Saturday night, and Sunday night both stayed above 100 degrees.  Looks like they hit 127 yesterday.  This is a NWS maintained sensor site btw.

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=DEVC1&num=72&banner=gmap&raw=0&w=325

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. 

1 hour ago, Kitchener poster said:

Where is all my rain?? We were locked in for rain Friday - Monday. 4 straight days. 

Now we just got rain yesterday evening......and that’s it? Was supposed to get rain during the night. Supposed to get it today. Sunday. And Monday. 

How did that forecast just turn into partly cloudy and a high of 80. 

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

15 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

Off topic, but geez! Some of the flooding vid's out of China are sick stuff! Talk about "biblical", and there's a major dam that's shifting and bowing. Hate to see the results if that fails. What we had in the middle of the Mitt was horrible enough. I know it's a different culture and all, but that one video was just nuts. An open air kitchen/diner with the cook waste deep in flowing (nasty brown) river water while frying what looked like fish on a commercial frying grill barely above the nasty water and 2 customers calmly sitting on their stools waiting for their dinner. OMG how disgusting! Now all those multi-story building collapses as entire down-towns are getting washed away. I've watched wx vid's for decades and this is some of the craziest I can remember ever seeing.

I couldn't find the diner with waist-deep brown water flowing past him video, any link or what keywords to search for? That would be two insane wx videos in 24 hours. BTW, did you find out what date that severe thunderstorm you were mentioning about from 2003?

The instability is extremely high here today where convection just exploded all over southern ON around 12:20 pm. I wasn't expecting rain til 2 or so and it poured at 1:30 pm instead. Still raining lightly but should intensify. Its too bad the day is ruined with clouds and rain now. Strong thunderstorms? lol.

8 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Love that video.

I'll make it my new screensaver.

11 hours ago, fluoronium said:

CRAZY tornado in Minnesota yesterday! This is some of the most ridiculous tornado footage I've ever seen. 

 

This might be the best drill-bit I've seen, and at a close range! Was this TOR warned? Like too many others, the footage inexplicably cuts off when its clearly still in progress, my God...

My AC just stopped working overnight and today is forecast to be the hottest day of the year yet . I'm already at 30C (86F) feeling like 39C and my high was increased to 34C! A lot of clouds.

This is shaping up to be a memorable heatwave here locally, yesterday was my warmest year to date at 33ºC (92ºF), so far I'm at 32ºC currently. My forecast point on Thursday is 35ºC (96ºF) which would be the warmest temperature in a few years. The longevity of this heatwave is certainly the most impressive part, even a CF is doing squat. Just like summer 2016.

On 7/1/2020 at 11:29 PM, bowtie` said:

What happened to your Canadian air?!?!?!?!?!?

Its located in St. Anthony's, Newfoundland currently. 8ºC high with a wind chill of 5C.

Windsor ON 14 day trend (not reliable of course) shows no day dipping below 30ºC.

I'm sad to see this June go, it was a top 5 June I've experienced. It would've been a perfect June aside from the lack of storms and it being a bit too chilly during a few of the days early in the month. I reached 30ºC again today.

I got way more rain than was forecast, surprising. It was a downpour for nearly 5 hours and similar to the sunny weather we had reminded me of August 11 2012. I heard one rumble and that was it, "strong thunderstorms" were forecast and I'm not even getting garden variety. The PMX engine for TWN thinks a 40 dbz echo on CAM = strong thunderstorm .

23 minutes ago, Kitchener poster said:

There is a T-storm to the SE of London that is almost stationary. A few unincorporated towns are probably getting quite the rainfall totals. 

I just checked as I saw some darker clouds building nearby, ending the blue sky streak. Some of these almost stationary cells are moving nearly due west somehow, crazy.

I'm under a severe thunderstorm watch for no reason and in the text they warn of possible landspout funnel clouds, never seen that before. Also for isolated large hail to quarters, I'm going to guess I'm not going to get it this afternoon but near London/K-W/Newmarket maybe?

I don't know the last time I had this much blue sky for this long, maybe not since 2012 but with no cells for today this streak may continue into early next week. After this Spring, having 8 days of non-stop shine near the start of summer is wild. Its like I'm back in southern AZ.

If my 7 day is to be believed, then potentally one of the best stretches in several years is underway!  6 days in a row of "not a cloud in the sky" weather with low humidity and comfortable temps. Can I take some of this and sprinkle it on January?

The squall line here in Midwestern ON was among the most lame I've ever been in. It was so pethetic that even I was in disbelief, however hours later there was a second wind which packed a bit more punch but whatever. Just to nail home just how tame it was, I heard only ONE distant thunder during the passage!! Just some breezy heavy rains. I'm glad I didn't go out to chase this near the shoreline. Mark did and he doesn't know why it fell apart as it entered the more favorable parameter space but I've seen it nearly every time so its not a shock but the extent of the collapse was. It almost looked like K-W wasn't going to see anything at all but the 2nd round gave them some. Once again the warm front brought the goods and the cold front failed. There were some large limbs though down in the locale, I didn't see any high winds that could do that?

The second cluster that came up from MI that produced the real storm down south also delivered two tornadoes or so. 

7 minutes ago, Solidsting said:

i know right? even tho things look good i keep praying everything holds true. i have been wanting some big boomers for several years now

I just got my first thunderstorm of the year this morning, it was decent with tropical rains but not severe. I don't like the look the HRRR is giving for MBY, looks like I'm going to get whiffed this evening followed by the typical hours of moderate rain that follow. I was waiting for some descrete cells ahead of the outflow but then the CAMs backed off that...

I notice during the hot day tomorrow with it being 30C feeling like 40 (humidex) the winds will be 40 km/h gusting to 60 at once. That is unprecedented in my experience in my locale but there was one day last decade that was approching winds of that level with a slightly higher air temp. This is before the strong storms roll in. Will my stormless streak come to an end?

48 hours later it'll be 12C for a high feeling like 8...jacket weather! Its been a good June so far but a weird one, enough sunlight thankfully.

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Heat Warning

Issued at 15:17 Monday 08 June 2020

First heat event of the year expected Tuesday through Wednesday.

A hot airmass approaching the area will bring daytime temperatures in the low thirties over the next couple of days. With increasing humidity on Wednesday, humidex values are expected to creep in the mid to high thirties. Lows between 20 and 22 degrees Celsius are also expected Tuesday night.

Temperatures will cool off Wednesday night as Tropical Depression Cristobal approaches Ontario.

It sure isn't. Were they sleeping during the later part of May?

On pivotal weather why do I have to have my mouse cursor on the hr numbers rather than the loop bar to show each frame? I haven't been there in a bit and that change isn't good, moronic even. Now its hard to slide the mouse through the run which I prefer to just watching a loop.

The boarderline severe cells in SON split the gap between my west and east!!  I saw some amazing clouds just around 8. Once again we get nothing when not far off the shoreline and Toronto are getting a pretty good show, unreal. This was the best chance for southern Grey county like Hanover/Walkerton to get a severe thunderstorm in a very long time...

Perfect weather currently, about 22C feels like 24 with some thin clouds. I can't believe I fell for TWN's forecast of stormy throughout the day lol. I don't think we'll reach 28C as a high but it will be in the comfortable zone.

I had a sneaky shower come through this morning on a day with very low POPs. I had to turn the heat on again after the heatwave. Nice day though. Just hours away from the start of the best month, here's to something awesome...maybe (no thunderstorms of course, I still haven't gotten one yet).

As many Canadians remember, today is the 35th anniversary of Ontario's worst tornado outbreak. While violent tornadoes were tearing through SON back then, in modern times we're lucky to even get a legit severe thunderstorm anywhere in this province. There's even been a stark change from the 2000s.

I still don't understand the difference between Heat Index and Humidex but I agree that Humidex seems flawed.

I might be near 15C above normal. The leaf-out speed is extreme.

We're up to 27C feeling like 34 at noon. Forecast high for today was increased again to 31C and now to 32C. That is way higher than the 5 day forecast leading to now...I forget what it was but probably 27C. Humidex was going to be 33 but now its 39 this afternoon. Tomorrow same temperature and humidex. This is approaching late May 2006 levels of awesomeness.

Shortly before 4 pm I had a developing t-storm side-swipe me and some of the largest rain drops I've seen started falling. I could hear each rain drop on the roof (like hail) and looking out it was stark white as if it were hailstones. Not many but wet the pavement in no time. I rushed outside and caught a drop on my sleeve and it felt like I was splashed. 11 minutes after the last drops the sun cleaned up.

The storm matured to my east so no t-storms as always but Environment Canada issued a severe t-storm warning for a garden storm that was 20-30 minutes past me to the east with nothing upcoming. I love it.