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[?]Ross of Ottawa » 🌐
@ottaross@mastodon.social

The special statement warning regarding possible heavy rains (100mm !) is still up, but the radar looks like the threat is somewhat diminished at this point.

A big system - Boston, NYC, Washington are all getting more of this than we are, I suspect.

A weather-radar overlay on the map of North Eastern North America shows a long multi-tendrilled storm headed east

Alt...A weather-radar overlay on the map of North Eastern North America shows a long multi-tendrilled storm headed east

    [?]robyn 👾 » 🌐
    @robyn@yeg.bike

    phew, I was worried we'd have to go 24 hours without a severe storm with torrential rain, large hail, and damaging winds.

    screenshot of Environment Canada's weather website.


Hourly Forecast - Edmonton
[orange banner] ORANGE WATCH - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

12:46 PM MDT Tuesday 28 July 2026

Impact Level: High
Forecast Confidence: High
Severe thunderstorms are possible in the Edmonton area late this afternoon and this evening.
The main hazard is torrential rain on top of already saturated ground, though any severe storm
will carry the risk of large hail and damaging winds.

Travel delays and/or cancellations are possible. Driving conditions may be difficult. Utility
outages are possible.

Be prepared for severe weather. If threatening weather approaches, take cover in a basement or
interior room. If outside, protect yourself from flying debris and hail. When thunder roars, go
indoors! Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Don't drive through flooded roadways.

Heavy rain can cause flash flooding and significant reductions to visibility.
Strong wind gusts can damage trees, buildings and overturn vehicles.
Large hail can cause significant damage and injury.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe
weather, send an email to ABstorm@ec.qc.ca, call 1-800-239-0484 or post reports on social
media using #ABStorm.

In effect for:
+ City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park

    Alt...screenshot of Environment Canada's weather website. Hourly Forecast - Edmonton [orange banner] ORANGE WATCH - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12:46 PM MDT Tuesday 28 July 2026 Impact Level: High Forecast Confidence: High Severe thunderstorms are possible in the Edmonton area late this afternoon and this evening. The main hazard is torrential rain on top of already saturated ground, though any severe storm will carry the risk of large hail and damaging winds. Travel delays and/or cancellations are possible. Driving conditions may be difficult. Utility outages are possible. Be prepared for severe weather. If threatening weather approaches, take cover in a basement or interior room. If outside, protect yourself from flying debris and hail. When thunder roars, go indoors! Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Don't drive through flooded roadways. Heavy rain can cause flash flooding and significant reductions to visibility. Strong wind gusts can damage trees, buildings and overturn vehicles. Large hail can cause significant damage and injury. Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ABstorm@ec.qc.ca, call 1-800-239-0484 or post reports on social media using #ABStorm. In effect for: + City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park

      [?]isixtyfive » 🌐
      @isixtyfive@mastodon.world

      Finally some rain moving through.

      Binghamton weather radar.

      Alt...Binghamton weather radar.

        [?]Brian Harper » 🌐
        @That_One_Guy@mastodon.world

        It feels like 124°F/51°C at the theater. We can cook eggs on the asphalt soon.

        The forecast for Sappington, MO

        Alt...The forecast for Sappington, MO

          [?]Brian Harper » 🌐
          @That_One_Guy@mastodon.world

          You can literally feel the air outside. It's thick and wet. It's going to get a few degrees hotter by mid afternoon. It's fucking miserable right now. We have the AC turned up to 78°F to conserve a little power while we're gone but all the fans are on moving air for pets so we're probably not saving much electricity.

          It's currently 95°F/35°C with a feels like with humidity temperature of 117°F/47°C.

          The forecast for my town of Arnold showing a temperature of 95°F with a feels like of 117°F.

          Alt...The forecast for my town of Arnold showing a temperature of 95°F with a feels like of 117°F.

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            [?]Farhad A. » 🌐
            @faab64@todon.eu

            Apocalyptic video of forest fires in Spain.

            Canada and France are burning too.

            It's truly depressing, our politicians are busy helping orange shitler and Netanyahu destroy the world and act like global heating and climate catastrophe is not important enough to put all their energy and resources on.

            Over 25000 people evacuated in France, Madrid is dangerously close to be burned and 100s of . millions of trees burned down across the globe.

            As if our pollution wasn't enough,we are loosing our valuable trees too.

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              [?]Canvases By Peter 🇵🇸 » 🌐
              @CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social

              7am, piping-hot cup of mocha, opened the front door, very misty outside and drizzling rain but kind of nice as the sun rises (9.6c so not overly freezing), magpies are doing their morning warbling across the park next to my place.. will be staying in my dressing-gown & pjs for a while today I think..

              Morning Mastodon 👋 ☕

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                [?]Akshay » 🌐
                @Akshay@eupolicy.social

                “The European drought is a compound crisis, driven by prolonged precipitation deficits and extreme heat, with impacts already evident despite the summer only just beginning.

                Wildfire activity has also intensified rapidly in western Europe. The drought is placing severe strain on agriculture”

                worldweatherattribution.org/in

                  [?]slamr » 🌐
                  @slamr@hub.uckermark.social

                  crazy light in with stormy skies highlighted by sunshine

                    [?]Jon Lord » 🌐
                    @jonlord@mastodon.world

                    Is It Still Called JFK ?

                    (Details In The AltText) (A Repeat)

                    This is a black and white photo in landscape format of a busy airport taxiway surrounded by fog with a long line of aircraft waiting to takeoff. JFK, New York (2011).

One third of the way to the right of the left edge of the photo is a long solid line stretching along the centre of the taxiway and away from the camera. A short distance to the right of the centre line (about ten cm) is a line of lights inset into the tarmac, spaced every few metres. About ten metres to the left and right of the centre line are two parallel solid lines marking the edge of the taxiway, one either side, though the tarmac continues for a distance of another five or ten metres beyond. Further to the right is a wide grass area before a small portion of a parallel runway is in view. Surrounding this scene is a bright, white, morning fog with a visibility of no more than five hundred metres. In front of the camera is a row of five aircraft on the taxiway waiting for their turn to take off. The closest aircraft is about ten metres from the camera, is a Boeing 737 narrow body, shorthaul aircraft with two jet engines slung under the wings and small winglets on the wingtips. Beyond the queue of aircraft is a further larger aircraft, about five hundred metres away, at right angles to the taxiway and is on the runway and starting its takeoff roll, this aircraft is partially obscured by the fog. Above and beyond is filled with a large body of bright, morning fog.

                    Alt...This is a black and white photo in landscape format of a busy airport taxiway surrounded by fog with a long line of aircraft waiting to takeoff. JFK, New York (2011). One third of the way to the right of the left edge of the photo is a long solid line stretching along the centre of the taxiway and away from the camera. A short distance to the right of the centre line (about ten cm) is a line of lights inset into the tarmac, spaced every few metres. About ten metres to the left and right of the centre line are two parallel solid lines marking the edge of the taxiway, one either side, though the tarmac continues for a distance of another five or ten metres beyond. Further to the right is a wide grass area before a small portion of a parallel runway is in view. Surrounding this scene is a bright, white, morning fog with a visibility of no more than five hundred metres. In front of the camera is a row of five aircraft on the taxiway waiting for their turn to take off. The closest aircraft is about ten metres from the camera, is a Boeing 737 narrow body, shorthaul aircraft with two jet engines slung under the wings and small winglets on the wingtips. Beyond the queue of aircraft is a further larger aircraft, about five hundred metres away, at right angles to the taxiway and is on the runway and starting its takeoff roll, this aircraft is partially obscured by the fog. Above and beyond is filled with a large body of bright, morning fog.

                      [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                      @Dragofix@veganism.social

                      [?]Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 » 🌐
                      @KO6YQ@pnw.zone

                      Thunderstorms are crossing the Portland, Oregon area south-to-north into southeastern Washington State. The clouds seem to have capped the high temperatures short of the forecasted 100F/37C.

                      NWS radar snapshot showing a line of thunderstorms crossing Portland, Oregon

                      Alt...NWS radar snapshot showing a line of thunderstorms crossing Portland, Oregon

                        [?]Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡 » 🌐
                        @KO6YQ@pnw.zone

                        Who's surprised about thunderstorms in Oregon & Washington? There's always someone who says we "never" get thunderstorms. I heard the same thing when I lived in California. Thunderstorms are weird that at least small ones happen far more often than most people realize. Meteorologists & pilots are trained to recognize cumulonimbus clouds, or storm cells on weather radar. Without such training, most people need to hear thunder or see lightning to recognize a thunderstorm.

                          [?]Yakyu Night Owl » 🌐
                          @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

                          The completely predictable thunderstorm that is going on right now is why we don't trust forecasters as much as our eyes.

                          This was a tip in from a stepladder.

                            [?]Amy » 🌐
                            @littlestbee@c.im

                            Good morning! Once we returned to the base lodge the improved immensely.

                              [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                              @Dragofix@veganism.social

                              Well-designed urban street plantings provide relief from summer heat phys.org/news/2026-07-urban-st

                                [?]Dragofix » 🌐
                                @Dragofix@veganism.social

                                [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                @Zf@c.im

                                [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                @Zf@c.im

                                [?]Bean 🇺🇸🇻🇪 [He/Him/His] » 🌐
                                @TechBean@mstdn.social

                                NYC metro now getting tornado warnings.

                                  [?]Janet [she/her] » 🌐
                                  @Janet_52square@sunny.garden

                                  4/3 (oops) The cause of this drought is a high pressure system sitting mid-Atlantic which is being caught between southern weather patterns pushing north and northern ice melt/higher temperatures pushing northern weather fronts south.
                                  This high is storing heat out at sea and evaporating sea water which currently has nowhere to go. While we are all needing rain, the likely outcome of a summer weather pattern like this is storms- and storms which have been powered by a continuous high pressure ‘battery’ or energy store for weeks.
                                  This is so very far from the normal tracking of weekly changeable weather across the Atlantic to the Western Seaboard of the UK it is hard to imagine or prepare for - there’s certainly a lot of unpredictability in it - but in basic terms we are likely to be in for a wild autumn after such a hot summer.

                                  A clip from the UK Met Office pressure video for this week. Showing an enormous area of high pressure off the west coast of Ireland and weak weather fronts curling round it from the north.

                                  Alt...A clip from the UK Met Office pressure video for this week. Showing an enormous area of high pressure off the west coast of Ireland and weak weather fronts curling round it from the north.

                                    [?]Pankil Richards » 🌐
                                    @Zf@c.im

                                    Satellite TV --

                                    Do not open umbrellas
                                    Let a fall.
                                    (that's what! it wants.)