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These storms are probably the worst I've ever seen hit the UK.
Could hardly believe how severe some of these storms were in the reports, and that 4.5" hail in Leicestershire. Now the so called "30 tornadoes a year" in England seems all the more realistic, when one considers storm outbreaks like this were more common in previous decades and each one produces several tornadoes. This goes to show that every now and again the UK can produce stuff just as bad as anything the Midwest can wow.
I missed the big storms but at 10:30AM on 28th I was under the shadow of the enoourmous violent severe supercells to the south over the West Midlands and I've never seen it so dark at that time of day. Like during a total solar eclipse, and rather eery.
A storm did come by here, and the frequency of thunder was unbelievable, merging into one continuous rumble. Sounded serious. Missed the heaviest rain, but would have been fun and games right underneath the center. Lighntinng was surprisingly not very visible.
Current temps 5:30amEST. I thought it was pretty cool when I looked at my weather channel app and saw it was low 60s here, 70s just 50 miles south of me and 50s just 90 miles north of me. Happy medium I guess? Actually, there are spots in CT 50 miles north of me in the 50s right now (Litchfield County)
I cant imagine waking up to 70s. Nice and chilly here this morning. Normal is mid 60s (65F). Normal for NYC is 68F.
So its funny, they are above normal for the low and I'm below normal such short distances.
One of my sisters flew back to England from Barcelona yesterday and said there was a thunderstorm at the airport before they took off. The plane then went through bad turbulence and some people apparently were lifted out of their seats and were swearing and screaming and she started crying LOL. Bet I would've loved it!
This is the forecast for Budapest, Hungary. My old home town. Almost got a cardiac arrest when I saw it. If something even remotely resembling this occured in Melbourne, it would be into the bomb shelters for everyone
I can personally say I've never seen a forecast like this for Melbourne, despite being at 38* latitude with a hot subtropical desert less than 500km to the north, while Budapest is at 46* lat, with the closest desert thousands of miles away. Really says volumes about Melbourne's climate doesn't it?
heat wave is done here in upstate SC, looks like a more typical mid 90's with storms daily.. days when it doesn't storm will be the hot ones. That was some extreme temps, but compared to last year's upper 90's and humid everyday endless summer I'll take it.
Detroit Metro Airport has now recorded 5 consecutive days reaching 90F or greater. Looking at the forecast, the airport is expected to reach 90 through Friday or Saturday. The record for consecutive 90 degree days was set in 1953 with 11 days in a row (ending 9/4/1953). This means if the forecast holds true, we will tie the record of 11 consecutive 90 degree days. We only need 8 consecutive days to tie for 2nd place in Detroit's climate history. The record for Flint is 13 consecutive days, ending 7/18/1936, with 9 needed for 2nd place. Saginaw's record is 10, ending 9/3/1953, with 9 needed for 2nd place.
This is rather depressing.
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