Shit, looks like lightning struck Choate's dining hall and set its roof on fire. Must've been scary for the summer students, but looks contained thankfully. I have a lot of happy memories in that building. Would be devastated to lose it.
Can we push those clouds down to the coast please? I'm helping a friend move out of a third floor, no a/c apartment today and I don't feel like dying just yet (although by this afternoon I'll secretly be praying for the cool, refreshing dark of the tomb).
Maybe, but how deep does that warm water go? Any large storm will upwell cold water in front of it. A high end cat 3, low end 4 into SNE would require a truly extraordinary, if not perfect series of events.
Jesus, that is some nutty CAPE out there. I'm not sure I've seen values north of 7,000 before. Tack on the shear and EML enhanced lapse rates, no fooking wonder it's going gangbusters out there. Imagine if there had been a stronger trigger in place.
Nuts. My brother's father in law once told me about getting caught on a logging road during a blowdown in the Adirondacks back in the '90s. Said it was the scariest experience of his life. Truck just buffeted with trees falling all around.