cyclone77

zzzzz

Nice day today. Dews back in the 70s this weekend. Could go for a good thunderstorm, it's been awhile.

46 at Rochelle, and 45 for Aurora for low temps (on the hour at least).

Down to 49 already at Rochelle. 53 here. Dewpoint dipped into the upper 40s this afternoon for awhile.

Already down to 46 at Hampton Iowa as of midnight. Black River Falls at 42. A fantastic taste of fall is a breath of relief from the stagnant summer stank. Fresh cool/dry air pouring in through the open windows tonight will make for some great sleeping conditions.

Yeah this is making me look forward to fall. The look of the sky, the air, and even the smell is different today. Only 69 for a high here so far.

Could see dews dip into the 40s tomorrow or Wednesday. That's pretty tough to do this time of the year with crops in full swing. Top notch weather for sure.

Picked up 0.26" from a passing thundershower around midday.

Geez. What state's Kitchener in? Never heard of it lol.

Click image for full screen. Past 12hrs estimated precip. how to upload photos to the internet

A DVN employee reported estimated 90mph winds a little north of the DVN site earlier.

Looks like the 80mph winds at MLI took out the equipment. Hasn't been an ob since the storm hit.

Top pic is of a storm blowing up earlier this afternoon along the stalled OFB. This is right after the storm split into two separate updrafts. Bottom pic of a rainbow behind departing severe line of storms, pointing in the same direction as top pic.

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.