Saturday, July 18, 2026 Thunderstorm/Severe Weather Potential

[CoastalWx]

23 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably won’t happen 

@Cyclone-68needs to just like winter like I do. Convection is a joke. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

South coast summer for storms and rain.

[bristolri_wx]

3 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

South coast summer for storms and rain.

thunder and downpours here for two hours now... these things are moving fast though.

[Hoth]

Just torrential rain. Considering how hot it's been, the yard is remarkably lush.

[Typhoon Tip]

700 mil bar winds being west Northwest, north of the warm front is the problem

It kept it pinned down there in southern PA, despite having southwest wind at the surface on either side of the boundary.

It gets sawed off aloft.  All we get  is residual elevated convective blips amid strata rains.  Cool and humid. 

that phenomenon of the winds bending back southeast north of the warm front preventing it from coming in as something I’ve seen in this part of the country quite frequently actually over the decades I’ve lived here.  Meanwhile, warm front looks in the pgf like it’s  in a laminar flow/no resistance, but they just don’t move because of it.   

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

We’ve cornered the market on missing good rain by a few miles here 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Great moderate soaking rain for at least an hour here today.  Yard is happy.  

[CCHurricane]

Getting ready here in Barnstable for this MVY cell to move through. 

[dendrite]

25 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

We’ve cornered the market on missing good rain by a few miles here 

Ditto here this month. And I’m willing to flood CT until I can get it. 

[WinterWolf]

Nothing but strataform rain here…in both waves. A complete bust in regardes to anything severe. I don’t even think we had a rumble lmao. Just goes to show, You just don’t know….especially with regards to severe in SNE.  But good soaking rains we did get. 

[OrangeCTWX]

Was in NYCA for fanaticsfest today. Man they were getting clobbered for a while around noonish. But looks like we got about 1.50 inches of rain back home, but no severe per my wife. Bleh.

[WinterWolf]

2 minutes ago, OrangeCTWX said:

Was in NYCA for fanaticsfest today. Man they were getting clobbered for a while around noonish. But looks like we got about 1.50 inches of rain back home, but no severe per my wife. Bleh.

Zero severe here in central CT.  Not even a rumble. But good rain’s,  so it was a gain. 

[WxWatcher007]

11 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Zero severe here in central CT.  Not even a rumble. But good rain’s,  so it was a gain. 

We bust. 

[codfishsnowman]

Well we didn't even get much rain lol

[WinterWolf]

15 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

Well we didn't even get much rain lol

Ahh that sucks…it poured here real good. Move back to Bristol..more snow, and more rain …WIN WIN. 

[WinterWolf]

26 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

We bust. 

Amazing how we can have a lot of headlines….and zero happens T Storm wise…hmmm. We used to it. Although I don’t need any hail damage to my vehicle…so it’s not that disappointing. 

[WxWatcher007]

19 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Amazing how we can have a lot of headlines….and zero happens T Storm wise…hmmm. We used to it. Although I don’t need any hail damage to my vehicle…so it’s not that disappointing. 

The underrated days are often the best days. Tends to be a good rule of thumb around here. 

So many of our higher end days seem to be conditional, so it's no surprise that up here those conditions are harder to meet than most other places that get storms.