Torchageddon

I'd go with Jan 6, 2014 as a single instance. It was a lake effect blizzard here (never seen an low blizz), never seen anything close to that severity it was sheer chaos in-town. Various aspects I've never seen before were playing out; no returns on radar during intense rates of snow, all plows pulled off (not sure on other events), -40C windchills by the end. There were a few times the visibility was so low that a streetlight just 50 ft across the street was completely shrouded in a blanket of dark grey like we were being swallowed. I have a hard time imagining the scene now since it was so mind blowing (typically its the opposite). For a longer event it'd be mid Nov 2000 with historic LES. Around 100cm or 40 inches+ during that. That and Dec were the snowiest months on record in Hanover; the definition of a front-loaded winter.

Looking at another MCS rolling in during the next few hours, ugh!!! Every single storm is between 11pm and 8am (nearly all from 12am-3am) this year, just why? I haven't hit the pillow yet and soon my block will be off it again.

Here I can't see smoke as its blue skies finally with sun, everyone out there is saying hi because we're all so happy to get out of smoke jail. Aqi of about 60 so not really an woe current and let it stay. A bit cool early though it was 16C/61F til 9am.

I haven't yet seen anything concrete but that was the most well defined hook echo I've seen in the GTA. The QLCS has a few cells with spacing but its a tad crowded. The og sup is nearing Niagara on the Lake but may slip past. Kettle Point ON has a tight cell that is sus. Grab from Instant Weather:

I saw a notch or hook with a discrete cell there and zipped to find tor warn in a densely pop. spots!

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