Pokemon GO's Weather News of the Day

Pokemon GO is likely one of the hottest mobile trends that I have seen since…I don’t know. This is wild. I feel like people like this an irrational amount. I downloaded it this evening, caught two and lost the love for the game. I don’t know what the big deal is.

What I do know is that Nintendo is wildly wealthy right now. Nintendo’s stock is up 33% since last week, and has gained a large $9 billion since the App was released.

I really wish that I had found out that this was coming out, and invested in the company. Alas, I am young and poor.

Severe weather across the northern Plains

A strong trough is currently propagating through the northern Plains, forcing a strong surface low across southern Canada. This is dragging a cold front to south and east over the northern Plains. In association with this, plenty of thunderstorms have formed.

The storm reports for this afternoon and evening. h/t SPC

There was a strong supercell that formed earlier, and actually dropped a tornado on a small Minnesota town.

@NWSTwinCities @ian_leonard @reedtimmerTVN tornado spotted near Kimball mn pic.twitter.com/pQJJ3rnYRh

— Skyler Schiefelbein (@schisky69) July 11, 2016

@ian_leonard @reedtimmerTVN @NWSTwinCities near Kimball mn pic.twitter.com/fOMuwcCkiH

— Skyler Schiefelbein (@schisky69) July 11, 2016

Interesting Weather in Asia

There have been a couple of interesting things occurred across China and Russia the past few days, as a hail storm impacted a Chinese Airliner and a strong waterspout was caught on camera in Russia.

China Southern Airlines A320 jet en route to Chengdu on Jul 9 was battled by hail storm in air. Flight safely landed pic.twitter.com/ExAwj3EyOg

— People’s Daily,China (@PDChina) July 10, 2016

#WaterSpout spotted in Surgut, Russia – A Crane operator observed from above.

🎥 С Евгениевич/@ViralHog pic.twitter.com/sGQ9KwGDkj

— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) July 11, 2016

Neither of these things are particularly rare, but they are cool things to note and see.

Last Week was Insane

I can’t emphasize enough how wild last week was weather wise. I wrote about it earlier this evening, but it does bear reminding. We had over 500% of our normal rainfall for the 10 day period between July 1st and July 10th.

The percent of normal rainfall that we received in 10 days across the region. h/t NWS Louisville

We can’t take on much more heavy rainfall, and it isn’t looking like we’ll see rainfall like that this week.

Well, that is all I have for the news today. Be sure to check out the blog post in the morning for a fresh forecast post!