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I hit a dp of 76 just before the storms rolled through. Great day. 
 

Trip Summary: incredibly intense rains, truly blinding. Some definite wet microburst* type gusts at times.  Few small limbs down. Couple close lightning strikes, a handful of pea size hail, and some flooded roads.  Not too shabby at all. 
 

*Edit - I should have said rain loaded downdrafts because I didnt see any real damage.

6 minutes ago, vortmax said:

Western Monroe cty. Really getting hammered. 

I’m out right now!  Just torrential rain so far. 

I have a pretty decent time lapse of these two cells that have hit the tropopause and flattened out.  You can just see the anvil and mammatus on a storm up over Webster (front left side which is North).  The other storm (bottom right) was over Farmington, looking east/southeast  

These storms are definitely more intense than usual for around here. This is very deep convection. I watched several storms out my window at work smack right into the tropopause and flatten out several times…absolutely beautiful. One of my favorite things to watch. And the updrafts had the sharpest most crisp edges…looking like cauliflower, haha. Anyway, I’m home now and cells just popped over me and to my west and put out a ton of lightning. Huge CG’s!  Loudest thunder I’ve heard in awhile.  Hoping that more organized area can tap into our instability before it wanes.  We don’t get days like this often up here. 

51 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Well, there you go....while pretty much every where else in New York state is currently in the lower to mid 70s (even some 60s) Syracuse shoots right up to 80 degrees and is warmest in the state (outside of NYC).

Every...single....day.... 

At what point will you stop being surprised that the largest urban area (at a very low local elevation) will be the hottest location within 100 miles...Every. Single. Day.  This should not be surprising or even interesting at this point.  

I hope kROC can duck and dodge like they have been, I've got softball tonight and have been itching to play this week.  Current radar trends actually give me a sliver of hope that we could somehow slither out of this without much rain.  

14 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

Hrw Fv3 has 5" at Kroc lol Going to be more hit or miss than widespread..

5” at kROC with .1” in Hornell, lol. This is a complete now cast event. Going to be wild gradients with this setup. 

58 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

Hopefully this becomes a bit more organized later this morning, early afternoon lol

12z nam seems to be dialing back the rain quite a bit in the first few frames already. 

Maybe the new format has some bugs?? Here’s a screenshot of your post. 
 

Classic hail spike just showed up from that cell over Lake Ontario. The heavier cells are definitely making some ice today!

23 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Some heavy storms all day in southern Erie county, weird wind direction. Hamburg is about to get hit with a big one.

That radar is from June 19th. 

This is a really interesting area of convection and energy moving through. Seems nocturnally driven. I’m hoping for a good soak!

57 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

I can easily predict the weather. It's going to be above normal for the rest of our lifetimes. 

And it will never rain again in Rochester.  It's pretty incredible.  Remember last week we kept thinking someone was going to get inches of rain this week.  I think I could have counted all the drops that have fallen in the last 10 days on 1 hand.  It's like living in the damn desert...

13 minutes ago, Syrmax said:

Total of 1.59" rain today. I was golfing up in Oswego County this afternion/evening so I missed the final line that came thru no. Onondaga county. 

We ducked and dodged all day, unfortunately.  I wanted rain so badly. Only .05” in my gauge. 

1 hour ago, vortmax said:

Wow, just checked the radar for that timeframe and not very impressive.

Those are landspout/waterspout vortices IMO. Fairly harmless but very cool! That storm could never support a true tornado 

16 hours ago, TugHillMatt said:

I seriously wonder....for you guys who have lived here for longer, has it always been pretty easy for Syracuse to hit the 90s? It seems soooo simple. The temp is rarely in the mid to upper 80s...If that's forecasted, it almost always seems to heat up easily into the 90s. This rapid warming is insane.

Urban heat islands continue to grow each year, more parking lots, more buildings, and more places using AC (which likely has a small local impact).  When all the buildings are pumping heat outside, it eventually becomes tangible.  There is no city that has less pavement and more trees now than in years past.  Temps can only go up in these scenarios.  I'm quite convinced Buffalos higher temps are solely because of all the development in that area the past few years.  Also, climate change is the real deal...and certainly shows itself as warming more often than not.

7 minutes ago, SouthBuffaloSteve said:

Some crazy videos of a tornado that hit the northern suburbs of Montreal this afternoon.  Very violent look to it.  At least one fatality so far.

 

I want to see one so bad!  I’ll get one one of these years. 

A little post processing from the earlier pic. This is closer to how it honestly looked.  Pretty ominous. There were a couple moments when I thought I had a chance for a funnel…. No dice. 
 

Back into sun post squall line with a dew point of 70! Real front will probably touch off a quick shower later this evening with all this low level moisture hanging around 

Lot of  tree damage in Pittsford Mendon area!

I’m sitting in a real nice spot. The cloud structure is beautiful. 
 

Heading southwest now.  I like the storms in Wyoming county building ahead of the main line 

I’m just about to leave. Think I’m going to go straight west now as the cells are exploding quickly.  No need to try and get ahead of them anymore. 

7 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

If it stalls, could be huge rain maker, at least somewhere lol (over several days)

If this locks in I'm going to be planting a lot of grass seed laser this week!