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WeatherArc Yeah this could have easily been a moderate or even high risk day with 15% plus hatched, but its gotta be hard for the NWS to decide what to do. Also wow to the damage below. Nice CG lighting in front of the tornado.

WTF!!! A mile or bigger!!!

What a view from Brett Adair with multiple vortices crossing the road ahead of the chaser convoy.

Half a mile again!!!

A couple of clips from the chasers...,dang this is a biggy. bandicam 2024-04-27 00-12-09-014.mp4 bandicam 2024-04-27 00-21-12-678.mp4

That was some footage by Brett Adair,...wow. bandicam 2024-04-26 23-55-37-247.mp4

WYorksWeather Yes there comes a turning point about third week of May, by then the sun is as strong as in late July and even if temps are mid teens at best under light winds and full sun it feels every bit summer to me by then thanks to the long light. Same with third week of Nov feels we are plunged firmly into winter thanks to weak sun and low light even if temps still into the teens.

jonboy Read the post again. I didn't say if your opinion differs to mine you're a denier. But if you're off the opinion that either a. the Earth isn't warming, or b. it is but not mainly due to human activity, then I would call that denialist. The reason being that the evidence for it is about as solid as the fact that if I were to throw a rock off a building, it would hit the ground rather than levitating up into the sky. The reason I have very little time for 'it's natural' or 'the Earth isn't warming' as an argument is because it's frankly boring. I mean you can hit me with an argument for either of those positions if you like - if it's a new one I've not heard before I'll take an interest. But the issue has been absolutely done to death - the scientific debate on whether the Earth is warming and on the cause ended decades ago for a reason. Here is just a brief, non-exhaustive list of factors that have been considered as alternative explanations for the main part of the warming, all of which have been examined and rejected: Solar activity Internal variability Milankovich cycles Ocean currents ENSO Volcanoes Urban heat islands Those issues make up easily 90% or more of the talking points I read online, probably more than that. And every one of them takes about five minutes to debunk. That's the reason there's no point debating it any more. I mean, if you have a brand new contribution on the issue I've not heard before, I'm happy to reopen the discussion. In terms of the use of the term denier, the reason it is used is in contrast to the term sceptic - you could perhaps more neutrally call them those with a non-mainstream view on climate change, but of course that doesn't roll off the tongue. The reason to use the term denier is that sceptic implies scepticism in the scientific sense - which is perfectly natural and healthy. But if scepticism goes beyond demanding evidence, double checking data, and interrogating sources and so on (all perfectly normal in science), and instead proceeds to casting aside all the data, alleging grand conspiracies without evidence, or even in the most egregious cases just making stuff up or misrepresenting the mainstream science, then it is often referred to as denial. I'm afraid that I don't think that's particularly unfair.

Its crazy how we've had multiple violent wedges in an enhanced 10%#, significant overperformance than what all the models were showing. 67 tornado reports and counting.

Ryan saying its coming towards more populated areas again.

Some of the tornado's today from a variety of chasers. This is crazy. A historic outbreak.

From Conner Croff just now... bandicam 2024-04-26 23-14-15-840.mp4

Wow bandicam 2024-04-26 23-01-37-038.mp4

jonboy The earth is warming. Basic science shows this, science that actually predates just the 20th century - 1856 to be exact, by Eunice Foote. We may not know exactly where we’ll end up. We—or I should say, the guys in suits—have a say how far we do end up though. With such undeniable evidence and solid science, anyone who disagrees with it should not be shocked to be called a denier. It is denial, nothing more. I’m not saying this to start an argument and I anticipate this being removed, but interesting conversations and theories must start in reality and the reality we face is clear.

raz.org.rain Personally, I would just really like to have a year of seasonal weather for a change. 2003 and 2018 achieved this, so it can be done. Though has been incredibly difficult since. I think a lot of us on here would be happy with a seasonal year.

sundog I wonder if it will lead to a cooling of the rest of the Pacific, which is currently very warm?!

Cool (currently 7c) and very showery - impressive hail one just now has whitened the grass... As with previous days, lovely and warm feeling when the sun comes out but thoroughly baltic in the shade. Gentle variable breeze.

Another frost here again this morning, the 3rd or 4th this week. Lovely start but it's clouding over a bit now with showers likely soon. Ravelin Maybe... e.g. UKV below shows Tuesday not bad down here (just), but chilly still further north. Then meh on the GFS temperature wise after that. From Friday the GFS has 17c fleetingly into the north east... after that it's a horror show and another cool down but I only really look at UKV these days so Tuesday is my limit. The sleet that was due here at the weekend has at least vanished but those further east still looking to get some more rain on Sunday. (Other models hopefully better but haven't looked)

Dusting of wet looking snow evident on at least some of the hills around the Vale of Alford first thing this morning. Warming up a bit next week?

Chilly start again, low of 0.1c. Sunny spells.

Spring may have sprung. Wife’s photo as usual.

Showery morning with a definite hint of sleet first thing, nor surprising as 1c at that time; dry and reasonably sunny from lunchtime onwards. Max of 9c today, nice and warm in the sunshine, frigid in the shade. Some gorgeous cloud formations mid-afternoon... Suie viewpoint lovely as ever this evening (looking north/northeast).

sundog calling BS on the statement on sea surface temps hitting "shocking new high" average global sea surface temperatures are exactly the same as they were a year ago in April 2023 as they are now at 21.1c in 2016 they were 21.0c (last el nino).

Catacol I wouldn't even bother. Denies that Spain is becoming drier and warmer this week so that says enough. The ignore button works wonders

Yeah - damn that fiddled data. The cloak of mendacity that somehow makes us hallucinate that snow levels are falling, summers are getting hotter, winters are getting wetter, rainfall events in general are getting more extreme… and polar ice levels are falling fast. In this context the oceans are, of course, not getting warmer. That is another illusion.