Torchageddon

There was a tornado near Lucknow ON (credit to Aidan Stevens): And an insane tornado pic captured near Amberley ON: Link: This was to my west, really close to the shoreline and the most photogenic tornado around here since 2007!! On TWN they were having tech difficulties near the start because they were scrambling to get setup showing the radar and pics. Of course that was my only source of high res radar as raydar.ca just YESTERDAY went offline, great timing!! The WF delivers once again. Using this nonsense composite frame I could tell a BWER and tornado touchdown: There was also a couplet east of Chatsworth that might have produced as there are damage reports coming out of that region. That was 30 mins before the Amberley/Lucknow tornado.

Thanks Powerball, IEM always seems to be the knight in shining armor for wx web products. Its a decent replacement for the NWS mosaic but I still don't have a good local one as I'm in the radar hole between DTX and BUF radars on that one. TWN radar is painfully terrible and abandoned since they are basically running on fumes. How do I set the radar to current for that GIS page? The other is too small at: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=none&mode=realtime&frames=1

For that particular stat I can't appreciate it because I don't have any perspective to reference. I went to raydar.ca and there is now a message saying he is throwing in the towel for that excellent radar page for SON, stating there are better tools now which isn't true for free desktop ones and especially web-based. Now I don't have any good radar at all now . Things just keep getting grand for this past time.

Record shattering heat is forecast for the west and there are even numbers for Osoyoos BC that would match the all-time hottest Canadian temperature!! Some parts of the Northwest Territories could get in the upper 30s as well (that's near 100F) . I think this could be one of the deadliest Canadian weather events in quite some time. Vancouver BC 7 Day: A humidex forecast of 43 in Vancouver is absolutely insane, for perspective getting to 30C is very hard in that city and I think 35C is all-time record max. Osoyoos BC 7 Day: I think its interesting that there is a chance of a shower on the hottest Canadian day . My urge to purchase a flight ticket to the west is growing - I could escape this huge rain event that lasts days and experience record shattering heat instead . https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/heat-dome-inflates-over-western-canada-the-harbinger-of-all-time-warmth

There was a deadly tornado in Mascouche Quebec that was unwarned by Environment Canada, photogenic tornado footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unep5XFpU18 If you like colourful language and wild tube the 2nd video delivers that in spades during the first parts. Crazy that there was 1 death with this 4pm tornado but none for Sunday's midnight strong tornado in Woodridge IL.

It was an excellent summer solstice (technically 11:32 pm EDT tonight) with a 30C high and variable skies to get a little of everything except rain. My low was abnormally cold for this date at 11C!! I see Tues is going to be utter crap in the temps department, a prank from TWN and DarkSky? 14C? gtfo with that stink.

I just got an amazing 3 rounds/cells of storms within a hour that was actually substantial! Got fantastic lightning that was non-stop with multi-modes - the 3rd was high-based lightning that transitioned to traditional near the end when a cell merge occurred. Reminds me of the good stuff when I was a kid, its been too long lol. One of the most fearsome strikes shook the windows harder than it has in years. What's ironic is there were no thunderstorms shown on either my quarterly or hourly forecast when usually its vice-versa. Not much rain, likely around 2-3 mm and I didn't get any high winds nor hail. Even as I'm writing this somehow more lightning is persisting off in the distance. These were the most potent in all of SON thus far, I thought it was going to be a non-story with the way this line weakened after moving through Huron hours earlier. I have to say I'm impressed.

Somehow despite looking to be a clear day, I'm clouded over and chilled at 18-19C (windchill at 16C) . I'm now uncomfortable during a mid-June day, not fine. I think I need a little trip to PNX. What is a thunderstorm? That word is slipping from my vocabulary.

I somehow managed to get down to 6ºC or 43F at 6am.

Today is even better than yesterday, clear blue skies with an unusually high constant wind for June standards at 20+ km/h, gusts to 35 km/h. Its been about 20ºC since mid-morning with my dp plummeting down to 0ºC - that's likely the lowest in a few months. My overnight low coming - 9ºC

I noticed this when I checked PNX's forecast, I'm jelly. A week out from the summer solstice - the best time of the year. I have rain (15-20 mm) forecast for this Fri, I have my doubts.

I like this airmass too, a tad on the chilly side with those winds but sets a different mood. Ideal for exercising. None of the showers teased occurred for the 8th time in 10 days.

Over the past week I've been constantly dodging all the rain that has surrounded me including what must have been a torrential downpour just 20 miles to my south Weds evening. Either the cell splits and I'm in the middle, or like yesterday a cell formed nearly on top but the heavy precip was a minuscule 1/4 mile away from me! Then the line of weak showers weakened where I just got light sprinkles by evening (not even 1 mm). Those light showers that I was suppose to get overnight? Nothing . Today's precip where it looked like a rainy, crappy day - removed and its bright and sunny with high temps once again . This is getting neat.

I believe it was the hottest day of the year so far on Sat, at 32.5ºC. Lots of clouds and breezy.

That surprises me, would've thought there would be at least a few years with a pre-solstice streak as stated. What kind of June will the Gods bestow upon us, I'm loving the long range so far and tonight I'll be dreaming of 600 dm heights right over my head. Let not last Friday's disgrace be for nothing.

I got down to 3C with a windchill of 0C, had some rain-snow mix in the last hour. This is the coldest I've been so late as far as I know.

I've already reached 30ºC or 86F and its not even noon yet. This is far beyond the forecast high from yesterday, hopefully the same over-performing for Thurs.

Its the 10th anniversary of the major tornado outbreak that hit Oklahoma and surrounding areas as part of an epic outbreak sequence from the 21st to 26th. It was one of the most exciting tornado outbreaks I've ever followed with a near perfect synoptic setup that even Jim Tang approved of! The forgotten EF5 of the previous decade formed as known as El Reno I. Other notable violent tornadoes included the Chickasha–Blanchard–Newcastle EF4 and Bradley–Washington–Goldsby EF4. The evening was very memorable as intense footage was being shown on TV as the media tends to latch on to any new juice related to the hot topic of the week. All hell started breaking loose as not only were violent supercells heading towards OKC metro, but new clusters were forming in the Dallas region and central KS. Of course nothing interesting like that day happens anymore, in the Plains.

It was suppose to be around 20ºC this morning and very uncharacteristically stable with the high later rising another 1C. Instead of party sunny and 20, it was overcast and dropping earlier 0.5C every 20 minutes!! It literally got down to 14C. What in the fresh hell is this? Sun is coming out a bit now and temp rising again to 17C. Why can't something freaky like that drop happen in reverse, so 26C? Reminds me of a certain year.

Started off 2ºC cooler than forecast for my min, now exceeding points as I'm at 24C now up 14C from 3 hours ago. Hope to see the highest temp of 2021 so far today.

I've never seen more tornado reports (sitting at 9) than both hail and wind reports combined (4) til now. I've also not read the phrase "orphan anvils" .

There were training showers to my east this afternoon that slowly crept west towards me; I got some cloudy conditions now but no rain as it fizzled out. It was a great day before those clouds and would've been mad if the rain was just 25 miles west of where it was.

Is that the only known tornado footage that was captured at 6am? By that I mean ever, not just for yesterday.

Which side of the F5 debate do you fall on regarding the last one in the movie? On the ground at night or just forecast to be a future F5? Yes that El Reno EF5 in 2011 isn't mentioned much and is possibly the least talked about EF5 of that decade. The truly forgotten modern F5 is the Birmingham tornado in 1997 that leveled neighborhoods.