Torchageddon

I got around to looking up what Vancouver's high temperature ended up being on the big day, their forecast was the legend 40C with a humidex of 47. I found out the reason why TWN and the wx twitter community was dead silent about anything on that city: it was an epic bust beyond my wildest imagination . It ended up only getting to 32C with a humidex of 40C! Sure still impressive in general but I'm curious about why the forecasters increased their high suddenly on Sun and went full tilt with 5C over their all-time record. Also some parts of the city may have gotten much higher due to the location of the sensor in a very delicate spot and I guess the wind flow caused the biggest temp bust I may have ever seen in this country..

The heat under-performed in some areas of BC but not Lytton and Vancouver Island - Lytton set the all-time national record again at 47.9C. They exceeded Las Vegas' all-time hottest record . There is a shot that Lytton today can just reach the 50ºC mark for the first time obviously in Canada's history due to some warmer 850 mb temps - on one hand I'm rooting for that milestone but on the other I'd be beside myself if I missed being there for it to cap off this historic event.

What in the fresh hell is this? That's a 26C departure for Abbotsford BC, with the hottest humidex in Canadian history That will easily surpass Lubbock Texas's all time highest temperature . The 7-day at the top is Lytton BC, with their feel like 126F Tuesday. Nothing special there. Then what might be one of the most stupid things I've ever seen in wx forecasting is for Vancouver to surpass their all-time high temperature by FIVE WHOLE DEGREES CENTIGRADE!!! I've never heard of that happening anywhere and will be a unique feature in history if later today we get the 40. Humidex also set to 46-47 for them. Vancouver getting to 40 before me is just not fair; I hope I'm teleported in my sleep to the interior.

The all-time Canadian record has been broken a day early: That's 116F. This is just the beginning of a defining weather event, basically my wet dream. I would've never believed we'd be beating our all-time record by margins like this. There is already talk of one in a thousand year event, etc. I think its going to be one of the most extreme weather events in Canadian history, along with my favorite March event.

Osoyoos BC 7-Day: This is inconceivable, now TWN is forecasting the hottest Canadian temperature on record beating the previous record by 2ºC!!! Even better, back-to-back-to-back days showing the hottest temps in our nation's history . WTF!?!? Then the humidex, nearly 50C all three days which is probably the highest since 2011 anywhere in Canada. It'll cool off to around 100F by the end of the week. Kamloops BC is also putting up a 45 and 46C highs in the coming days with a near 50C humidex - Kam is much further north than Osoyoos. Anyone without AC in these regions is in serious trouble. There is also a settlement in Northwest Territories - Nahanni Butte that is 36C currently and this Tues TWN shows 37C with humidex of 44C - I've never heard of humidex values nearly that high in NT!

This is my 7-day, its not going to verify but loathsome shite nonetheless.

Here are the Amberley ON tornado photos: It appeared on twitter about a hour ago and TWN also then posted it to their site, I don't know if the twitter user who posted first took the pics since he got the time wrong stating "a hour ago" which is in reality 3.5 hours ago. Reed Timmer caught wind of it and wondered if there was video of it and stated it looks like a scud tag (I've never heard of that). I don't know if that white at the base in the first pic is the inflow or the condensation hasn't reached the bottom. I can't imagine that isn't a tornado, scud isn't that well formed. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/videos/gallery/possible-tornado-causes-damage-in-southern-ontario/2312993038001/6261185701001/most_popular

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.