Yep. Tropical storm at landfall before regaining TS strength over OK. Hard to imagine a not even TD organizing and strengthening over land except perhaps crossing over swampland
This has the one of the most bizarre Euro runs I've ever seen. Develops a tropical storm inland? There's not even a closed low prior to the energy coming ashore. Must be some kind of hybrid thing, but seems mostly warm core. Not even way out in fantasy land!
A truly fascinating article on the development of a new AI model using data assimilation from this startups own balloon data network.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/this-ai-weather-startup-is-out-forecasting-government-agencies/
At least they should have dropped the short term drought designation in those areas. I understand that lakes and resovouirs may not have recovered, but soil moisture is likely pretty much back to normal