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Augdewst 2026: Summer's Last Stand


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Not sure I'll experience a thunderstorm better than today's storm - at least not IMBY. 

I've never seen wind like that, not from a t-storm.  Plus 0.96" in 13 minutes.  Legit white out at times. 

Lots of massive oaks and pines down around town, and fortunately most were not on cars or homes.  Half were uprooted and half were just snapped off at the base.  Not sure how accurate RadarScope is with estimated velocity, but 60-65 mph smells in the ballpark.  Power out about 6 hrs.

Some phil from local news.

 

 

KGYX - Super-Res Velocity 1, 3_30 PM.png

KGYX - Super-Res Reflectivity 1, 3_47 PM.gif

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6 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Not sure I'll experience a thunderstorm better than today's storm - at least not IMBY. 

I've never seen wind like that, not from a t-storm.  Plus 0.96" in 13 minutes.  Legit white out at times. 

Lots of massive oaks and pines down around town, and fortunately most were not on cars or homes.  Half were uprooted and half were just snapped off at the base.  Not sure how accurate RadarScope is with estimated velocity, but 60-65 mph smells in the ballpark.  Power out about 6 hrs.

Some phil from local news.

Big boy wind.

You can see what a mess wind like this going through a forest would make when trying to figure out if it is tornadic or not.

On the velocity front, keep in mind that it is radial velocity, so some component of that wind was not being sampled since it was not directly parallel to the radial. I would say 60 mph would be the lower bound of the estimated wind.

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32 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Big boy wind.

You can see what a mess wind like this going through a forest would make when trying to figure out if it is tornadic or not.

On the velocity front, keep in mind that it is radial velocity, so some component of that wind was not being sampled since it was not directly parallel to the radial. I would say 60 mph would be the lower bound of the estimated wind.

Interesting, thank you. Definitely had that extra bite.  I'm also happy the hail spared the gardens and plants for the most part.  

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Big boy wind.
You can see what a mess wind like this going through a forest would make when trying to figure out if it is tornadic or not.
On the velocity front, keep in mind that it is radial velocity, so some component of that wind was not being sampled since it was not directly parallel to the radial. I would say 60 mph would be the lower bound of the estimated wind.
Was that 80mph gust in Cape legit? The damage there was impressive

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12 hours ago, dendrite said:

They were nuts in June…all biting insects have calmed in the past couple weeks.

The Maine Public Lands "peer review" field trip was Tues/Wed in the woods south from MLT, and we saw very few mosquitos, black flies, almost no deer flies (thankfully).

Had 0.22" from a 'probable' TS yesterday about 3 PM.  We were meeting family in Hallowell at the time, but when we got home about 4 we noted that our thunderphobic Lab mix had been hiding in the bathroom.

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11 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Big boy wind.

You can see what a mess wind like this going through a forest would make when trying to figure out if it is tornadic or not.

On the velocity front, keep in mind that it is radial velocity, so some component of that wind was not being sampled since it was not directly parallel to the radial. I would say 60 mph would be the lower bound of the estimated wind.

Dumb question, but radial velocity?

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38 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Dumb question, but radial velocity?

Ryan explains it here. 

Looks like he updated it as well with another nearby weather station recording a 97 mph gust.

"A nearby personal weather station recorded a gust to 97 mph in Morgan Point (East Haven)"

https://ryanhanrahan.substack.com/p/incredible-103-mph-wind-gust

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50 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Dumb question, but radial velocity?

Here’s an old velocity image I have from Harvey from 9 years ago. CRP radar is due west of landfall so the radials extending eastward are giving you near 0 velocity since all of the wind east of the low are S and west of the low are N and nothing is going to, or away, from the beam.

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20 hours ago, tunafish said:

Not sure I'll experience a thunderstorm better than today's storm - at least not IMBY. 

I've never seen wind like that, not from a t-storm.  Plus 0.96" in 13 minutes.  Legit white out at times. 

Lots of massive oaks and pines down around town, and fortunately most were not on cars or homes.  Half were uprooted and half were just snapped off at the base.  Not sure how accurate RadarScope is with estimated velocity, but 60-65 mph smells in the ballpark.  Power out about 6 hrs.

Some phil from local news.

 

 

KGYX - Super-Res Velocity 1, 3_30 PM.png

KGYX - Super-Res Reflectivity 1, 3_47 PM.gif

And it was only a MRGL day!  8/12 and 8/13 were excellent examples of how "only" has gen tstm and MRGL out can be deceptive or promote the @CoastalWx MEH!

MRGL say nothing about how intense any given tstm will be.  And you can having honkin' supercells no problem.  I recall in April 2024, MRGL for NC/SC and one storm produced 4" stones in SC!

The HVN MB?, in a general tstm area, yet we get a high-end wind gust.  And the PWM area ydy as noted.

But the actual svr reports are isolated/sct as shown on the SPC plot from 8/12 and 8/13.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/260812_rpts.gif
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/260813_rpts.gif

And now for today, suddenly a narrow gen tstms area gets upgraded to MRGL at 1630z.  Decent 500 s/w and temps drop to -17 C at 500 (that is quite good for August - and ydy they were -14 to -15 C).

When it's good, it's good (NW flow and cold temps aloft RULZ!!!)  I don't want to hear any IMBY "I didn't get anything!" whining either! :D

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