Torchageddon

Can't say enough good things about this wx, its now perfect and its been 5 days of blue skies without smoke finally. Hasn't been good since early last Sept in terms of longevity as the mid April warmth had a solid but shorter streak. I had a 6 day streak in June 2020.

No smoke and saw blue skies finally for the first time in a while, a breath of fresh air literally. I got over 100K lux for the first time since May 11. I didn't get a drop of rain as it fizzled to my north so weeks on end of dryness .

The last rumble and storm were Apr 5 here, I'll probably not hear any til Sept. 10,300 strikes in one month is incredible, I only get around 2000 a year on my station and its radius is 40 km!

15 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

If possible this May has managed to be even more boring than 2020-22. It used to be my favorite month for its volatile weather and thunder/threats. What is with these locked-in doldrums patterns/endless stretches of absolutely nothing to track? I mean, it's nice that it's pleasant outside but with the ultra-low dewpoints I'm on the verge of having the same dry skin issues I do in the winter.

Imagine after May 24 2011 telling someone there won't be a classic plains outbreak in May through at least 2023? I consider the May 27 Memorial Day tornado outbreak of 2019 to be atypical.

13 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

I can't believe this is actually his official Facebook picture.

I had to go check myself, I can't believe it either! Someone made a shower curtain with that pic.

Getting pissed off with every cloudless day being smoked out where the sky is always this milky hue blotting out the sun! . As soon as the nightmare Apr is over now this shit. I do actually feel the dampening effects as my best day was the one where the smoke was absent. My station is showing a nearly 25% reduction in lux compared to a normal sunny day so when I should be hitting 100K lux mid-day I'm not even getting over 88K and typically like today its sitting at 75K avg. The longevity of this smoke is unprecedented here as I've never seen it all May like this. May 2012 only had a few days not weeks.

At least the dense smoke cleared here but its windy and cold at 13C nearly. The heat is already coming on and its only 5:30pm.

The smoke is so dense this morning that I woke up to what appeared to be overcast when it was forecast to be clear . Its still showing clear/few clouds when its anything but. Getting tired of this.

^ That was gold, both the intercept and the horking at the end after their screaming!

Jelly, I'm just on the verge of some mod - heavy rains...again  3 out of the last 17 days have been partly sunny, that's okay. Nothing wrong with that at all.

7 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Anytime the dews get above 60 I’m miserable. Not fun at all to work outside in that crap. I’ll take 0 with a wind chill of -20 over summer heat everyday but I’m in the extreme minority. 

I've been thinking recently I'd rather 100F highs than 34F highs every day like many days this winter featured. I've been in different hot climates that had humidity or dry heat around 100 and this is what I'd rather knowing the lifestyle. Not working in it though unless dawn/dusk.

1 hour ago, mississaugasnow said:

Weather network (Canadian weather channel) going with below average temperatures for May. They anticipate a small break mid may and then this cold wet pattern comes back for 2nd half of May and into early June 

I'm glad I haven't been visiting that site in a while

This isn't for the 25th but this outlook is strange for today:

Brownsville special.

At various points heavy snow/rain showers with one in particular looking like a winter storm with the winds gusting. With a week like last you know something nasty is coming after.

The storms I got yesterday (5th so far this year) were tame with 8 flashes of lightning, 13mm of rain which is about what TWN forecast. I've read somewhere else that Canadians tend to trust their precip amounts but not their temp forecasts. I tend to agree.

Station reached 30C, but likely due to the dry surroundings its too warm so I think 28C. 2nd day of blue skies no clouds at all - I realized this is the same as two months ago exactly. Awesome week.

Weirdly enough my low was back down to 6C like Weds but made up for it around 10-11am by jumping to 25C on my station; TWN had a 6C disparity (19C). I'm running 2C too warm typically. I was under an poor air quality advisory briefly then like that svr t-storm warning 10 days ago it was yanked fast also around 10am.

A humidex of 34 for Brampton, insane.

Overnight low much warmer: 13.4C compared to 6C yesterday. I reached 20C/68F at 9:40am which is impressive. I don't remember the mid-Apr 2016 event morning warmth to be this amazing. 23.5C currently! 12pm: 26C! Lets get some Apr 1-2 2010 vibes going.

Exceeded 23C and reached 27C/80F!! Gravy

From 7:35 am to 7:40 my station temp went up 2C. That might be the newest personal record for fastest 5 min obs increase. In about 1 hour I went up 8C. I wasn't supposed to get down to 6C overnight anyways so high is on track still. Looking forward to a top-tier April day that doesn't come along much.

Suppose to have a sunny afternoon but all these clouds started to descend from the north unexpectedly, sucks. There was even some light precip on the bruce peninsula. I'm not convinced its just the lakes causing it, from the ridge axis as well:

Reached 20C for the first time on my station!  Relieved to be getting early summer wx after the nightmare March. TWN shows 19.

At 8.4C/7C when I was suppose to be nearly 14 by now just forecast 12 hours ago. How am I suppose to make it to 20C by 2pm with this again?  Even better, my hourlies increased my temp high from 8 hours ago back to 19C now shown by 4pm lol. The 11am forecast would show me at 13C when clearly that's not happening.

Getting the 5th storm or more now, nothing wild just lightning with some CGs which is rare here. Still sitting at 8.4C but the T/dp spread is low (6C). I've never seen a setup like this in April here, one decent storm after another in succession with the atmosphere giving more than one might expect.

11 minutes ago, Roger Smith said:

I was living about 100 miles north of Toronto when the 1974 event happened, we had a moderate thunderstorm roll through about midnight (3rd-4th) with a temperature near 12 C. It then warmed up to about 20 C during the day (4th). As you probably know a tornado hit Windsor ON evening of 3rd and caused nine fatalities at a curling rink that collapsed. But beyond that I am not aware of any severe storm activity further into southwest Ontario that night. 

One tornado that might have been quite close to your location in April 1967 (a day where Chicago was hit badly) was about an F-2 and I vaguely recall there being one fatality from that, somewhere around Exeter and or Mitchell  ON. And more recently you'll maybe recall that extreme rainfall event on May 12, 2000. 

I don't know of anything off-hand from '67 but Mitchell is the tornado magnet of ON so its not surprising. I mention May 12, 2000 a lot for various reasons; namely it was a very extreme and unique system.