Torchageddon

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 .

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?

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.

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.

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.

No mention that this was the 3rd year in a row to first reach 20C in May: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/weather/2020contest/contest.html "And a question, should we allow people to choose dates in June next year?" I forgot it was May 13 not 14 for the previous record longest. I do remember it being 1919 however. Interesting that it was right in the middle of the afternoon as May years tend to be very early in the day like 10 am.

I notice after a huge severe weather event or something insane tornado wise there is often no post mortem and things carry on as if nothing happened. If a large severe weather day ended up doing absolutely nothing at all no one will post about how and why it failed but rather there simply won't be any posts and no analysis.

Aside from the cliche, it wouldn't be 185 mph by the time it got to Florida because its forward speed would slow enough to weaken him due to upwelling. Probably would be a category 3 similar to Hurricane Frances' weakening.

I've been checking this daily, I'm not sure if I buy into it being anything to consider when it comes to Plains activity. The red contours the other Friday were super impressive looking on the mouseover square for then but nothing happened in that spot. That was 1-5 days before. Its experimental (the dashboard) and I'm trying to find a pattern.

I'm getting the opposite of hopefulness from looking at ERTAF: "A continued northward shift in the NPJ leads us to believe the peak of annual US tornado frequency in the Great Plains (weeks 2 and 3) will be gravely below average."

You missed the most wretched year (May tornadoes) of all: 2017. Last year was truly appalling from an interest standpoint. All those High Risks and nothing memorable - this is my opinion alone but when I think 2017 for tornadoes the only tornado that comes to mind is the Canton TX one. With the 80s being what they were, what large scale configuration led to it? I think the quality severe was probably up north in the GLs because all sorts of stories originate from the mid-late 80s in ON.

I really don't want to hear any hints of death ridge when it comes to the Plains in late May (Only over the GL ). I really need to take the advice of cutting back how much I look at long range data, certainly not good to drive myself crazy. I'm going to look back to see what the mood was like at this time for May 2013 and 2016.

To clarify, what time frame(s) for the deterministic NWP? Just the next 10 days or is that further long range? Mostly interested in the last 10 days of this month.

Did the 00z euro just trash that goodness it showed 2 runs ago?

I think I came across something on eclipsewise.com that does that. I don't know what kind because I quickly went through some sites yesterday.

Oh boy. Another thing is I noticed a lot of folks on ABC's coverage at least not always using their solar glasses to look at the partial eclipse...even the reporters and anchors (one woman was pulled off camera!). I've been reading that even those with the solar viewers in hand and on head got caught with their pants down for a few seconds. They would either not realize it or the desire over-rode their sense. I saw the shadow sweep across the country on GOES-16 satellite using satsquatch.com/map/ and it was pretty neat. Even southern Ontario got dark.

I was at 71.2% and I noticed a change like a cooler breeze and it got dimmer. Its getting to normal brightness now. My solar eclipse glasses worked perfect and saw my first partial. That was pretty cool and makes me want totality even more now! Chile 2019! I saw what Carbondale had...dang! Surprises in a few spots like Charleston SC. Now we see if there is a mass gridlock anywhere.

After coming to the realization I couldn't make it for the 2017 solar eclipse I started thinking about Chile in 2019...not waiting 7 years on a likely cloudy April day. I have no idea how an eclipse trip like Chile would be.

For those sleeping in their car for 1 or some of the days of traveling, where would you park for the rest? When I was looking past and future eclipse maps I noticed different spreads of band width of totality which I guess is when the moon is further away or closer. However some tracks at the mid-latitudes are really wide (300 miles or more) and I have no idea why. When looking at the database of all annular and total eclipses there would be mostly annular ones that are half circle (close to the poles) but a few where total eclipses that had the half circle! What's the reason?