Not sure if a secondary front just pushed through but winds kicked up out of the north off quabbin and that dry air feels magnificent. Coming back from CA to OVC and damp sucked.
Didn't want to get back on the plane this morning, but did at least get a birds eye view of the pyrocumulus we could see on the horizon yesterday. Fortunately the air quality was pretty good this week.
Heaviest rain this month here was at like 630 this morning. Deluge
Flying out to Tahoe now. As the plane lifted above the clouds into the sun I expected to hear high pitched angelic singing. But yeah hopefully we don't get a different kind of OVC out there.
This. Zero heatwave. A couple of those days were rainy and hovering in the 60s before a brief spike to mid 80s and then more rain. The high+low/2 method is a dramatic overestimate of the integrated average this month.
somewhat underwhelmed by rates here based on the nexrad reflectivity appearance. I should probably start calculating KDP on the UMass radar as is the case in TX.
we're pretty far away, but can confirm a mesocyclone look to it down there.
unrelated but the wind sig that was along and north of the pike has weakened quite a lot
seeing some low end *possibly* severe winds descending the east slope just n of rt 9. The lack of u/l dynamics are evident in the relative unorganized nature of the cells. But there is certainly a threat of branches down here and there.