Ju-ply 2026 Obs and Disco - Kicking it off with heat, humidity, and ... severe?

[Hoth]

We’re overdue for a Hamden tor. 

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Hail threat was observed, I updated it to include up to 2 inch hail possible.

We've had golf balls so far, but MRMS was estimated between 2.25 and 2.75 inches.

That was the area I wanted to go too if I didn’t have stuff today  

[FXWX]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

That was the area I wanted to go too if I didn’t have stuff today  

Terryville CT

[yoda]

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

That was the area I wanted to go too if I didn’t have stuff today  

Was it baseball?

[Damage In Tolland]

From Harwinton connection 

[weatherwiz]

4 minutes ago, FXWX said:

Terryville CT

Great way to keep a drink cold 

[Hoth]

Getting dark and constant lightning to the northwest. Also shitton of fire works!

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Monroe getting rocked with the worst of the wind. Just average here so far 

[OceanStWx]

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Great way to keep a drink cold 

Also that can is 2 inches wide.

We don't care how you report it, as long as we can measure it.

[Go Kart Mozart]

The backbone of summer is breaking.

[weatherwiz]

10 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Also that can is 2 inches wide.

We don't care how you report it, as long as we can measure it.

I’d like to report High Noon sized hail 

[kdxken]

5 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

The backbone of summer is breaking.

All down hill from here. Flora has peaked.

[Damage In Tolland]

Torrington . Scud ??

[Go Kart Mozart]

22 minutes ago, FXWX said:

Terryville CT

Damn, I was at Plymouth Lake when this happened.  Just missed it.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Solid rain producer another inch can't tell if there was any damage locally.. 4"of rain in the past 2 weeks.. 

[Hoth]

Looks like a roughly 30-40 ft chunk of maple has crushed my patio furniture and neighbor’s fence. 

[Damage In Tolland]

HRRR is right never. Except tonight when it drew the rod up the azz line perfectly to the southwest .

3 severe warnings last 4 days 

.14 total from all 3 

 

[powderfreak]

33 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

From Harwinton connection 

That’s legit.  That hail has to be pushing 2”.

[Damage In Tolland]

3 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

That’s legit.  That hail has to be pushing 2”.

Yeah looks like 2.75.. between golf ball/ tennis 

[512high]

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

That’s legit.  That hail has to be pushing 2”.

That size can cause a lot of damage! Holy crap, How many car windshields gone?, crops etc.Wow

[ct_yankee]

That was a proper severe storm, first one we've had in a long time in New Haven. The restaurant across the street from me had their sign knocked down and their front door was sucked wide open and then slammed shut so fast I bet the glass shattered. Interestingly, most of the intense winds seemed to me to be either going directly into the storm or out of the SW perpendicular to it's movement. Usually here the worst winds are always pure outflow away from the gust front, but seemingly not this time. Nice little bit of excitement for the 4th.

 

[Damage In Tolland]

Over 70,000 outages in CT. That’s a big boy 

[HoarfrostHubb]

87 for the high here.  AWT.   Nothing as far as precip etc.  

congrats to those getting

[A.antiques]

Pretty much the storm went around us in Unionville. Some heavy rain at times, distant thunder. Other neighboring towns like Burlington seemed to have it pretty bad. 

[Hoth]

That was a pretty wild storm. Wind seemed to switch around to all directions from one moment to the next. Patio furniture survived, but fence is crushed and I think my canoe/kayak are too.

this was a throwback way to end a heatwave. Reminds me of July ‘95. 

[vortex95]

14 hours ago, dendrite said:

AWOS is pretty bad…especially when Tds start getting up near 70°. Then it seems like they start going up 2° for every 1° reality as they get oversaturated. It gets easy to pick out the ASOS and AWOS stations in IA when they get one of their big summer corn field dewpoint pooling events. ASOS ends up 25-27C and then AWOS is in that 31-32C area. It’s funny seeing 92/89 obs in the afternoon. 

I remember that JFK day and that it was a high dew day overall. Lots of 77-79 readings and spotty 80+ in the late afternoon down the coast of NJ/DE. JFK was in line with 77-78 most of the day and then had a couple of hours get into the low 80s…82 and 84 on the hourlies IIRC. The temp went down briefly before a slight rebound before evening. There were some TCu around too with the breezy S flow off the water. Maybe a little evap cooling putting a little extra moisture in the air? Not sure. But I’ve seen spikes like that from manned stations pre-ASOS days too with temp recovery after showers/storms. 

Yes, I've notice that as well.  The higher the DPs, the more error occurs.

I looked at the the JFK obs string at that time for the 84 DP.  Nothing stood out for any change for wind speed/dir or change in pres.  No storms in the vicinity.  Now if this was Hatteras and S, I can see DP spike up like this since the SSTs are so high, but not here.

[Damage In Tolland]

85,000 outages CT. 
Wish we lived there

[dendrite]

14 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

Yes, I've notice that as well.  The higher the DPs, the more error occurs.

I looked at the the JFK obs string at that time for the 84 DP.  Nothing stood out for any change for wind speed/dir or change in pres.  No storms in the vicinity.  Now if this was Hatteras and S, I can see DP spike up like this since the SSTs are so high, but not here.

I hear ya. But at least it was an already highly anomalous soupy airmass. There were some coastal 80s along the seaboard. Not saying that explains it or that JFK was correct, but at least we’re not talking low 80s vs 65-70 dews.

[dendrite]

Did Phil visit the OKX radar?

[OceanStWx]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Did Phil visit the OKX radar?

I bet they took a lightning strike.