Torchageddon

I haven't been feeling good this week with the return of gloomy winter-like wx. Way too much overcast and bitter winds, I and others I'd speak to felt cold early this week no matter the situation. Worse off now than I was in January with it being boring, snowless. Great time to escape to a warm sunny spot (in April). This afternoon getting a rain and snow combo 5C/41F.

Getting a bunch of storms this evening as expected, but what wasn't is the first had intense CGs; I counted 6. I typically don't get much cg lightning its rare, once a year. I've noticed my best lightning in recent years has been in April. This is also the most intense tstorm with a temp so low 3.5C at the time of the first. My DP has been floating 0.2 above my air temp since 9. Didn't have the wait long for the 2nd, 20 mins later another randomly sprung up with frequent lightning but no cgs. That lasted nearly 45 mins over 100 strikes. At 11:30 I now have a third round, thank God this isn't in the middle of the night like that one April 6th belter years ago.

Watching that monstrous violent stovepipe tornado live was surreal, this is unreal!

Just got a huge clap of thunder with the heavy snow starting, only the 3rd time I've experienced thundersnow! The temp was -2C when this took place! It seemed to go on for over 50 seconds too with a second roar near the end. Good shit

The crush is coming, just 1 hr from heavy snow and insanely WUN is showing at 12pm of 7cm/2.75" in 1 hour!! I've never seen that rate forecast here. Radar showing in Sarnia/Lake St Claire area the heaviest snow band I've seen in a few years. Its going to be 1 hr of freezing rain, then heavy rain soon after with a tstorm by 11pm. 7-12cm of snow, then 16mm of rain same day, then sunny and 13C tomorrow. Dynamic is an understatement.

Didn't get any synoptic winter storm here in Mar despite the overall harsh winter, the streak continues. It was a good March up til the last 4 days of terrible overcast, yesterday the 31st was loathsome cold wise. This winter had some good nuggets and it never got extremely cold meaning below -20C for more than 1 or 2 days.

Got my first 20C of the year, my high was 22C/75F! Waterloo ON got their first 20 too and the UW station contest just ended a few mins ago at 4pm it reached 20.1C! It happened so fast that the director hasn't even updated the page yet which is another first. Somehow despite the immense snowpack the temps around here keep overperforming. Most of the snow is gone.

I'm tasked to get my first 20C/70F temp high later which is surprising, even sunny during that! . That would really make this March shine. One of the fastest melts I've seen there are huge/complete patches of grass now but just weeks ago 35" snow depth smother. Early spring here also not surprising. Crazy to see blizz warnings for southern KS!!?

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Tri-State Tornado, the meanest of them all. True to form, wxbox released a vid on it:

WUN did a good job with the hourlies showing a tstorm here at 8-9am - it was a weak one but had tepid cgs. No wind, rain wasn't heavy. Friday temp wise busted I got to 13C instead of 19C - Sad!

A MCD for the ages. The sentence about the data being consistent with other historic dixie outbreaks is about as close as you'll see to them saying "yeah the parameters are matching 4/27 and 4/3 for MS AL!" Among the most aggressive discussions.

Another great day, lots of sun before 4pm that exceeded high point getting to 9C; forecast was 6C. Many days recently were expected to be cloudy only for partly sunny instead. One of the warmest days so far of the year expected tomorrow 13C partly sunny. There has been some bitter days mixed in but its a fine March, 13 years ago the rumblings of the insanity to come began. I was higher than the price of a Canadian bottle of olive oil!

I found what I wrote about Mar 3 2023:

Buried here. This is a top 5 snowiest winter I've seen, if the crazy GFS verified giving me 24" during this last stretch that would've been disastrous (or awesome). The sun came out a bit later Mon and I was in awe at the beauty, peak winter. Massive drifts hanging off roofs is a delight. Snow banks 6-8 feet high we don't have anywhere to put the snow. If we didn't have those melts in Dec, it would be like 2000-2001. Its all LES doing the work. Every season it seems these synoptic systems under-perform by greater margins. I can't recall the last time one verified to expectations. Mind blowingly, I still haven't experienced an actual synoptic winter storm in March although Overnight into Mar 1 2017 was super close, you could count it. Will this be the season or will decades of trend continue?

First sign of a bust was there was nothing falling for nearly 8 hr last night and I was suppose to have steady light sn. Then I wake up to find no flakes! Dry slotted to hell! A few cm fell overnight but nothing like 10cm with it ramping up to peak by 9am. Currently -SN almost pixie dust... WUN forecast has me at 5-10cm or 6.7 today . Was 23 few days ago. My 25cm til Tues call looking solid.