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Recently at WxOrNotBG, we have been trying to create excellent and consistent content for you all to read through weekly! So, I have brought back the weather week in review. This is a good way to look back on the week, and appreciate the weather that has occurred! So, without further ado, here is your weather week in review for: June 19th-26th.
This past week was an interesting one by any relative measure. If that relative measurement is two weeks ago, then it was as interesting as any weather week ever.
Even though I don’t measure the activity of weather based on that week, last week was still interesting. Synoptically speaking, it is really interesting to look at the last two weeks together, and what they show in terms of synoptic meteorology as a science. Patterns typically work through and repeat about every 5-7 days, and as we have seen the past two weeks, Tuesday through Thursday has been active.
Monday and Friday were the more boring of the three days, with sunshine being fairly predominant. However, on Tuesday, scattered showers and storms formed along a weak cold front that was moving southward through the region. These weren’t much of anything; they merely produced heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds.
This boundary sank southward, and by Wednesday morning, was moving northeastward again. This set everything up for a very hyped event on Wednesday. This boundary was key in the track of the system to our northeast. However, much against the hype, the system really didn’t live up to expectations.
We didn’t really see anything from it on Wednesday, but merely the idea that we could see something made Wednesday active for me (I also was very proud of the forecast that I wrote up for this event on Tuesday).
Thursday afternoon and evening were by far and away the most interesting of the week.
That cold front that was giving us trouble on Tuesday and Wednesday had established to the north, and began to sink southward as a surface low moved eastward. Along and south of this front, a very warm, moist and extremely unstable atmosphere developed. This promoted a favorable atmosphere for strong to severe thunderstorms, and we got just that.
Multiple clusters of thunderstorms developed and moved towards us as the front moved southward towards us. They produced incredibly heavy rainfall, and enormous amounts of lightning. I have never seen so much lightning in my whole life.
Well, that is about as much as went on last week! Friday and Saturday were both fairly normal, with hotter conditions and some scattered storms on Saturday.
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