Torchageddon

The low starts off as 995mb near Alberta then deepens and stays <990mb for the rest of its trek zonally across the continent. I take it that is highly unusual.

I was rummaging through the NWS surface forecast map page, wanted a primer on the symbols and this is what they link for that: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/fntcodes2.shtml

It was TS Erin in 2007 over Oklahoma. I have to check but I thought Erin formed around the same spot S of TX as this to-be ghost of Erin but higher intensity over OK than the gulf.

I just came here to ask exactly that, never seen anything like that on a modal run; I'm got. Would the NHC declare it like that TD over Senegal all those years ago if it meets criteria?

Many members of this subforum under tornado warnings currently.

The CC drop is immense on it. Those traffic cams with the dark ominous blue hue reminds me of the joplin vid where that trucker drives into it, the sky goes from modest dark to total pitch black darkness.

I can't imagine IMBY getting a ripping bow echo at 8am like what southern IA is experiencing currently.

There were some bands of virga with nearly nothing so no 10mm at 5pm, now its 9 where I was suppose to get heavy storms; I see overcast and now light showers . For nearly a week out 2 agencies forecasting storms all aft and eve, and I don't even hear thunder. Storms nixed for Weds as well. I love these busts.

It is a blister of a day out there, the humidity after this dry spell feels like the sky is drubbing you! 29C/84F with a humidex of 38 likely, wow. I foresaw a delay of possible storms til after 5pm and TWN revised their rain from 25-30 to 5mm in line with WUN.

This Thurs may be the best chance for something decent (nothing like the main risk areas tho) IMBY as everything in 2026 except 2 storms in Mar has been pathetic, and all but 1 between midnight and 3am.

The warmup this morning is rapid - already 23C/76F and totally blue skies still somehow with the higher humidity and approaching clouds/storms later. It was suppose to be overcast by now, finally a reversal.

I get excited when there is hail lasting several mins, 85 mins is ott. Same with the cloudburst. Purple rain & lightning glow. Dream shot. Also lasted.

I got some meger rain last evening 3mm instead of 8, at one point WUN had me at 27mm/1" which I waved off. Nil overnight but any rain has been removed for today just overcast til 2pm then partly sunny for the rest of the weekend! For a while it showed a washout weekend like 2 weeks ago now just a blip. A dream pattern is shortly setting up with heat and 2 days of storm potential mid-week. Isolated storms so far with 8mm of rain mid-Tues.

Another perfect day, maybe even the best of 2026 thus far. 26C/80F. There was not a cloud in the sky anywhere in southern ON/most of MI til dusk. This is now the 8th day; may be my fav wx pattern in a long time. With this immense amt. of sun for this region and long days I feel totally diff compared to just 3 weeks ago; I need to move to a diff climate for sure. The lawns around here are just showing the first signs of burning, just today I saw the diff within 8 hours - whew. The rivers were very high in early Apr now they're low.

If that thick smoke that blots out the sky like in May 2023 had come right off the heels of the darkest, most cloudy spring/late winter, I'd be outta here.

Its now been a week of blue skies wall to wall, soaking that in. This is the sunniest stretch of wx in years; I don't have data on the last time but it reminds me of mid Jun 2020, and I think before the awful smoke summer of '23 there was a very sunny period in Apr. Lows fairly cool tho. I may have overperformed Mon getting to 25C.

More like hello brightness my best friend.

Seeing the pattern flip to very dry and sunny, nature balancing out the endless overcast we had to endure up here. No chance of rain here til Jun 6 and even that may fiz. 2mm in the morning.

Now 31C, humidex 32. If I make it to 30C again tomorrow I'd call that a heatwave locally as 30 is my benchmark not 33 (climo diff). Under a svr t-storm watch. Last night's storm wasn't anything special, 90 strikes with some offkey thunder at times. 3.5mm of rain another low one. It looked like it was drying up before the night was over!

Made it to my first 30C reading of the year, forecast 25, then 27, my hope was 29 . Overnight low of 19 will be higher than most days' highs during the last 3 weeks. The nightmare is over.

While it was closer to 18C/65F today, it still felt cool and unwholesome out there with some patchy sun. I think around 1pm that's when it got mostly cloudy . Thurs it was 3pm the veil of despair smothered us. I find I feel unwell as soon as the veil of despair makes it over here. Tomorrow rain, just sickening.

Every day its the same damn thing: overcast and temps in the 40s. Early Mays sucking is nothing new, but paired with how dark and cold this spring has been here its gross beyond measure! Even on days with sun typically it doesn't last; the clouds start rolling in at 10am then overcast by mid afternoon half the time. Last week had a bit of reprieve for sun just barely enough to keep us from going mad. Last period to have avg sunshine was in January! Weds felt like a Nov day: dark, misty in the aft, 5C/upper 30s. Morning was "warm" but it tanked.

ARC137-280400- /O.CON.KLZK.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-260428T0400Z/ Stone AR- 1046 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY... At 1046 PM CDT, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado was located near Mountain View, moving east at 35 mph. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW! Yep, this setup had all the classic signs. Just before I hit the hay, the warnings burgeon and the monsters emerge.

I captured on my station a 4C drop in 5 mins, wow. I halved my temp at 2pm where it was 16.5C to now 7C - 25 mins later!! Its very dark too, 2.4K lux at one point when 24 hours ago it was 108K! Insane.

Suppose to get some sun in the aft and high of 21C/73F - fog and grey again this morning. Guidance shows our crepuscular nightmare ends Sunday with a new wx regime.