Junorch obs and discussion 2026

[powderfreak]

Absolutely pouring.  I thought the rain shield was down south and wondering why we are getting soaked.

Can’t miss right now.

[bristolri_wx]

Looks like some lower level dry air or mid level dry air knocking down what’s attempting to fall in SNE?

The look on radar between KOKX and KBOX is significant in SNE areas…

Glad we are getting some rain regardless!

[Damage In Tolland]

Torch !

[metagraphica]

22 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Torch !

OooOOOh....RED.   

 

A 40-50% chance that we might be above normal. Could be 0.1 above normal, or +15 above normal, or not above normal at all.

[vortex95]

IL had 20+ tornado reports yesterday, and the state is now over 190 for the year (*reports*, not actual tornadoes, there are duplicate reports in this total).

 

Attached is a map for the bigger state totals through 6/19.  The disparity is amazing.  Why IL only so much more?  It's not like when an area is soaked or buried repeatedly w/ rain/snow.  That is more on the synoptic level and areal coverage is larger.  When you get down to a local level, such as an area that is about avg size for a U.S. state, that's not the same for scale.  And to get tornadoes, it is a lot more conditional (harder) than say a lot of heavy rain or snow over an extended period (CoastalWx would disagree about the heavy snow!). 

 

But given the vagaries of the atmosphere/patterns and given enough time, you are going to see things due to the law of large numbers and averages.  Just pointing this out b/c some try to assign a specific meaning or cause, where sometimes there is none.

 

Yes, I know of the hypothesis that tornado alley is shifting E, but we really do not have enough solid data IMHO.  Tornadoes, esp. weak and short-lived ones, were severely under-counted prior to the 1990s since storm chasing was not yet mainstream, WSR-88Ds did not exist for operational use, nor did the Internet (at least in widespread use).  ~35 years of data is not enough time to establish a trend either way.  I would argue that it wasn't until 2010 or so when we started to get close to actual number of tornadoes that occur every year in the U.S. w/ the  advent of the smartphone and dual-polarization radar.

 

 

[ineedsnow]

We pour! About damn time! 

[ineedsnow]

That storm that is severe warned in NJ looks a bit interesting 

[dendrite]

Just started and dumping. Love it.

63F +RA

0.17" 2.14"/hr

[Damage In Tolland]

Been raining since 10:30

.04 on the day dry under trees