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The part of the line that flared up right before hitting here has continued to blossom as it pushes east, and even somewhat east-northeastward.

Got some 55+mph gusts for sure with the first few minutes of the storm. Quality event to be sure. Hawkeye likely lost power. He for sure would have been on here by now telling the tale.

LMAO! As soon as I posted the above the northern end flared up.

That's some serious wind at MLI lol. Hearing of lots of power outages from peeps in the QC, which isn't too surprising. Looks like we'll just get grazed with a moderate thundershower here which is fine with me. Don't want no part of that 80mph crap lol.

Great looking thunderhead boiling up in the southeastern sky. Watched the storm split, and now has two large updrafts. Crystal clear overhead so have an awesome look at it.

Can see the stalled remnant outflow boundary just to my south with some agitated cu bubbling up. Looks as if it could pop into a storm in a short while. Was sort of fun watching that large updraft to the northwest this morning die away and leave a large orphan anvil canopy with mammatus. The left (southwest) side of the updraft looked very impressive for awhile when it was first visible on the northwestern horizon. Would have loved to get a time lapse of that evolution.

Another view of the tornado above from Scott Peake. Make sure to override the settings (that many times defaults to a lower res) and choose 4K quality. The final 20 seconds or so is truly remarkable. What this and other vids like it show is the extreme acceleration of wind at a given point as the vortex propagates through. The extraordinary violence of such acceleration of wind, combined with rapid changes in wind direction is what has to be one of the most damaging aspects of any tornado. It's not just peak wind speed and flying debris.

Pretty cool how you see the large limb fall off the tree at 31 sec, and gets sucked into the tor and flings around on the left side around 40 sec mark.

It can snow in 3 months/13 weeks.

We've been wearing masks 8+hrs a day at work the last 2 1/2 months, so throwing on a mask to run into a store quick is no biggie to me. Hopefully someday we won't need to wear them, but that looks to be a long way off.

Can see rock hard looking towers/thunderheads on the eastern/southeastern horizon from here. Looks like a nice event for areas to the east.

It can snow in <4 months.

DVN FTW!!

Yeah I was surprised about the new day 2. I thought Jewell was one of the better forecasters, but who knows.

Yeah if the HRRR/HRRRV4 are anywhere close to accurate there could be some nice tors tomorrow afternoon. Very low LCLs and very nice low-level shear, combined with more than adequate instability. Looking like a great local setup.

I guess at work they started some kind of decontamination spray you walk through as you come through security on the way into the facility. I'm on vacation for the next two weeks so I'll be curious to see how that works when I go back.

It's in the 80s in northwest Minnesota lol. EDIT: 107 in Texas, 80s in southern Canada. 50s in the Midwest/Ohio Valley.

We'll probably totally flip the pattern, and have multiple 100 degree days in June. I'm sure at the least we'll easily tag a few 80 degree dews with all the moisture we're getting.

Good to hear.

Has that been doing better than the HRRR and NAM3? I haven't really used that one yet.

There's always the Flowbee.

Those bad boys are mean as hell. If you're gonna shoot their nest with a bee-bee gun, make sure you have a clean escape route, and fast transportation away from the area.

Are we gonna have a homicidal wasp thread?

Yellowstone?

We have 99 confirmed at ours, with 2 deaths. That's with only 2 counties reporting, there's about 3 other counties with workers that haven't reported.