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This Tornado touched down in SW Manitoba last Friday near a small farming community named Scarth.

I follow a couple of storm chasers on Twitter from that area and they managed to get set up with their video equipment right before it made land fall.

Here's a video link if anyone wants get a close-up feel for one of these.

Scarth Tornado


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We don't get a large number of tornadoes here, but occasionally really violent ones.

Unfortunately with this one, the farmhouse pictured above had quite a bit of damage. No one on the farm was injured. But another man in a car nearby was flipped over and received non-life threatening injuries. Tragically, a young teenage couple in a pickup near the first car were sucked into the vortex, ejected from their vehicle and killed.

What caught my attention with this story was that neither the man in the car that was flipped, nor the two teenagers were from the area. The man was from Dakota Tipi First Nation 250km to the east and the couple was from Melita 50km south. The area of Scarth isn't even a town, more like a location on a map with a few farmhouses. No one in any interview I've read so far has mentioned that they knew each other.

So why were they out there at 8pm on a Friday?

Another unusual aspect quoted in the CBC article attached below is that the RCMP stated that the young couples' pick up was found 1 km from the farmhouse. The storm chasers claimed that the vortex only touched down for 15-20 min. That's a pretty incredible distance considering the man's car was just flipped in place and they were basically in the same location. Notice the pictures of the grain silos which are very light compared to a pick-up and weren't flung any distance at all.

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CBC Tornado Article

You'll read some comments on the CBC article that state, "You can't outrun a tornado." This is BS. The interior vortex winds are obviously at a level of no escape. However, the path that the tornado moves at is usually about 20km/hr. You might not be able to outrun it, but you can out drive it. How else would storm chasers catch them? The funnel of this one is not very big and as you can see by the pic above there is a clear escape on that little dirt road one way or the other. Why would the people in the vehicles decide to shelter under a tree instead of high-tailing it the opposite way? It's common knowledge in Manitoba what these funnel clouds look like. If you're in a semi on the highway, maybe you don't have any options, but on a gravel road in a car, just turn around and gun it the other way.

A: Realm wave is the “tornado.”
3.11.1995

Maybe there is something more anti-gravitational or exotic to a tornado than just wind and air pressure?
 
Yesterday, there was a power outage where I live in the Southern Interior of BC on checking the BC hydro website, this also occurred in some other areas, where power cables were downed and trees also fallen across power lines because of high wind.

Something is happening, strange weather patterns, and high winds. Not tornado winds, but high energetic intensity wind bursts, that are just a momentary event. Just my thoughts.
 
In Britain, spectacular lightning storms took place resulting in floods and power cuts.

The skies above Britain were illuminated by around 50,000 lightning bolts overnight leading to power outages and electric cuts for several hours.
Excessive rains continued for four hours and golf ball-sized hail battered Capel Curig in North Wales. The drainage system overflowed, inundating the streets across parts of Britain.
The skies looked fiery red due to an electric storm in South Wales and turned electric blue in Bowland, Lancs, and Worcestershire.
Especially notice the first video and comment ".... it's like a scene from War of the Worlds". Wow....
 

Here is a satellite view of the storm. Sure looks like a 4D battle right through the heart of corn country! The lightning strikes looks like a rolling cannonade. 😲

 
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If the #orages are often impressive when viewed from Earth, you would be surprised to discover the phenomena unfolding above them. Elves, leprechauns and giant jets will be studied by the satellite Flag of France Taranis. Take-off planned for this fall Rocket

The electrical activity was particularly intense between last night and the middle of the night in the west of France, as evidenced by this animation of lightning strikes. Source @Meteorage__


WARNING – VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS FLASHING MOVING IMAGES
•Aug 12, 2020
This 30-second time lapse video also captures the incredible lightning show!
 



We now see the thunderstorms neatly arranged / organized in line. North of the front is a NE wind, south of it a SE to SW wind. Quo timing also reasonably in line with expectation (s)

Thee timing!

C-CLASS SOLAR FLARE--UPDATED: The corpse of decayed sunspot AR2770 erupted yesterday, Aug. 15th at 0647 UT, producing a C2-class solar flare. A pulse of X-rays briefly ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio brownout over Asia, the Middle East, and eastern Africa: map. The explosion produced a CME, but NOAA analysts have determined that it will miss Earth. Overall, this was a minor space weather event. Aurora alerts: SMS


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The C2.0 flare that occurred in Active Region 12770 on August 15 seems to have been accompanied by corona mass ejection (CME). The LASCO C2 coronagraph onboard the ESA&NASA SOHO SOHO satellite captures CME erupting west [image created at Helioviewer.org (Helioviewer.org)]. .
 
Considering the day before we were having record heat (107 :shock:) and now severe thunder and lightning since early this morning - it’s definitely not the norm for the season. Of course what has been this year...???

Rare August Thunderstorm Sees Lightning Streak Across Bay Area

It's a rare sight for thunder and lighting to rock the Bay Area. As the skies sparked Saturday night and through Sunday morning, it's not a surprise that many of you got out your phones and cameras to capture the spectacle.



 
8:03pm Aug 21, 2020
A large mass of icy air moving from Antarctica is set to bring a rare "thundersnow" event to Australia's south this weekend.
The phenomenon would see a mix of lightning and snow hit areas around the nation's southeast coast.

Global weather satellites have captured detailed images of the polar-temperature air mass, which looks like a large wave of speckled cloud cover heading north over the Southern Ocean.

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Visible 'true colour' satellite image of the polar air mass, seen in the blue circle, on Wednesday afternoon. (Himawari-8 satellite)

"The Antarctic air will continue to spread over south eastern Australia between now and Sunday, causing a wintry mix of wind, rain, hail and snow in multiple states," Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino said.

"Some areas could see thunderstorms and a few places may even witness rare thundersnow (lightning and snow at the same time)."
Hobart, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide are all forecast to see drops in minimum temperatures into the single figures from tomorrow onwards due to the sudden cold snap.

The icy blast has already brought rain, snow and hail to parts of Victoria with snow hitting near Ballarat and Linbrook being hit by a strong hail storm.

A severe weather warning remains in place for the south-west and west Gippsland coasts and through the alpine peaks.

A low sitting over Tasmania will continue to spin up showers and icy cold winds for the next few days.

The intense weather system comes as the Bureau of Meteorology declared Australia now faces three-times the normal likelihood of experiencing dangerous weather events linked to colder conditions as part of an atmospheric phenomenon not seen since 2017.

The weather agency updated its El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) outlook yesterday to say the country is now on alert for a 70 per cent chance of La Niña forming before the end of 2020.

La Niña is a phenomenon caused by strong winds over oceans around the equator, such as the Pacific Ocean, that stir up colder waters and cause sharp shifts in on-land weather conditions.

The last time a significant stretch of La Niña happened in Australia was between December 2010 and March 2011 and that resulted in the country's wettest two-year period on record.


Watch 10,800 lightning strikes spark 367 California fires from space
•Aug 20, 2020 Mercury News

The #orages are moving inland here in the #Landes Castet Sarrazin Alexis Berthelot

The #orages spin inwards with a significant drop in temperature at the rear @ont oclimat
 
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More electrical storms predicted to arrive in Northern California beginning Sunday thru Tuesday along with potential for more fires 🙄

* THUNDERSTORMS...Isolated to scattered dry thunderstorms will
develop Sunday afternoon and into Monday morning. An additional
round of thunderstorms are expected to arrive later Monday into
Tuesday. Dry thunderstorms may become wet as the event
progresses.

* IMPACTS...Lightning will likely spark new fires across the
region, including remote areas. Wildfires in remote regions may
not become apparent until warmer and drier conditions allow them
to grow. Please report potential fires to local CALFIRE or
SHERIFF offices.

Full report:
 
JET STREAMS: MASSIVE INTERFERENCES
23 August 2020
The North Jet, once 2 bands of strong storms, has completely collapsed - only fragments of a combined subtropical and polar jet drive the weather in the lower atmospheric layers! - Over Europe you can see the charged jet fragment that brings stormy weather today - but very fatal: 2 jet fragments have established themselves at the North Pole, which completely re-mix the polar climate!
Others look at the Southern Jet Stream. The polar jet has collapsed or has united with the subtropical jet that has moved up, which leads to immense energy discharges - the extreme hurricanes are a sign of this and here too jet fragments have fatally positioned themselves directly above the South Pole, so they also new weather conditions while the polar vortex there, which is actually supposed to be "fixed" by the polar jets, walks around to South Africa and South America and creates massive weather conditions there too!

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This is what the jets should look like:

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