Baroclinic Zone

That is phenomenal.

Take OT banter to Banter Thread

Lovely 86/73. Winds around 10mph

Suns out, guns out here too.

84/73 here

Nice couplet there. Velocities don''t look huge though.

1st EEE case confirmed in Plymouth County. Middleboro https://www.wcvb.com/article/first-human-eee-case-of-2020-confirmed-in-middleborough-by-massachusetts-health-officials/33504701

MA confirmed 'nado 000 NOUS41 KBOX 040006 PNSBOX CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-RIZ001>008-050015- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/NORTON MA 806 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2020 ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 8/2/20 TORNADO EVENT IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... START LOCATION...SANDISFIELD IN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MA END LOCATION...BLANDFORD IN HAMPDEN COUNTY, MA DATE...AUGUST 2 2020 ESTIMATED TIME...658 PM EDT - 720 PM EDT MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF0 ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...80 MPH MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...100 YARDS PATH LENGTH...7.8 MILES BEGINNING LAT/LON...42.0911/-73.0769 ENDING LAT/LON...42.1648/-72.9471 * FATALITIES...0 * INJURIES...0 ...SUMMARY... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED THAT A WEAK, NARROW, BUT RELATIVELY LONG TORNADO OCCURRED DURING THE EVENING ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. IT BEGAN IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF SANDISFIELD, MOVED NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWEST TOLLAND, AND LIFTED IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF BLANDFORD. DAMAGE WAS MAINLY TO TREES BUT SOME MINOR HOME DAMAGE OCCURRED IN SANDISFIELD. THE EF-SCALE RATING WAS EF-0, WITH ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS OF 80 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN A MAINLY CONTINUOUS PATH FOR 7.8 MILES WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 100 YARDS. THE TORNADO BEGAN IN SANDISFIELD, JUST WEST OF SOUTH MAIN STREET. SOME TREE DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ON CARPENTER LANE AND ON SOUTH MAIN STREET AT AND JUST NORTH OF THE MILE 4 MARKER. A HOME THERE HAD ITS UPPER WINDOW BLOWN IN, SHINGLES RIPPED OFF, AND THE PORTICO WAS LIFTED UPWARD, ENABLING THE SUPPORTING POST TO BE SHIFTED OUTWARD. SOME CORN STALKS WERE FLATTENED AND A NEIGHBOR'S FENCE WAS BLOWN DOWN. IN TOLLAND, TREES WERE OBSERVED BLOWN DOWN IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS FROM EAST OTIS ROAD TO THE WEST SHORE OF TWINING POND, WHERE DRONE FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR SHOWED A COUPLE OF DOZEN TREES BLOWN DOWN IN A NARROW SWATH. CONTINUING TO THE NORTHEAST, MANY TREES WERE DOWNED ON BELDEN ROAD AND ON A NARROW PORTION OF SCHOOLHOUSE ROAD JUST NORTH OF BELDEN ROAD. THE DAMAGE BECAME SPORADIC AS IT ENDED WITH SOME WIRES DOWNED IN BLANDFORD, JUST WEST OF THE NORTH END OF THE COBBLE MOUNTAIN RESERVOIR. ONE TREE WAS OBSERVED DOWN NEAR THE BLANDFORD HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT ON OTIS STAGE ROAD (ROUTE 23). THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS HELP IN IDENTIFYING DAMAGE LOCATIONS IN SUCH A SPARSELY POPULATED REGION AND FOR PROVIDING DRONE FOOTAGE FROM TOLLAND, MA. ALSO, THANKS TO POLICE AND FIRE CHIEFS IN THE TOWNS IN QUESTION AND TO THE PEOPLE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO SPEAK WITH US IN SANDISFIELD. EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH * THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON

Enjoy your rain, winds, and 'nados out west.

The most exciting part here will be the dust blowing around. Winds don't look that extraordinary. I've seen winter storms with stronger and longer southerly winds.

Is this a Cat 2. Last I saw was 85mph. 96mph is threshold for Cat 2.

All reasonable views accepted. Mine is just my humble opinion. I hope this peters out as I’d hate to see people’s lives upended or lost under any circumstances.

See above 2 posts. I think we are at max strength and this will weaken once it hits the Carolinas.

I don’t think we see sustained hurricane force winds up here, no.

Yep. Shrederola incoming once it heads inland. This isn’t going over the marshy lowlands of HAT which would have a lesser impact on the storm.

Not a proper mask for preventing spread of Covid

94F for my high

Thread have been give.

Tater tots

97F at GHG

Bruins are about at lethal as this TS is.

94F. I'm so done with this 90F+ BS.

Droughtstein's forecast https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2020/08/03/isaias-forecast-new-england MEH here

Petition the NWS to combine the 2.

High Wind Warning A High Wind Warning is issued when the following conditions are expected: 1) sustained winds of 40 mph or higher for one hour or more OR 2) wind gusts of 58 mph or higher for any duration. Tropical Storm Warning A Tropical Storm Warning is issued when sustained winds of 34 to 63 kt (39 to 73 mph) or higher associated with a tropical cyclone are expected in 36 hours or less. These winds may be accompanied by storm surge, coastal flooding, and/or river flooding.