Well the city of Billings was hit with an EF2 tornado yesterday and the tornado was quite intense. It was slow moving and packed quite the punch. It reportedly sat over the same area for nearly 15 minutes before moving off and dissipating. The damage caused by this tornado was mainly confined to the Metra Park Arena which hosts many of Billings' concerts and major events.
The last time Billings, Montana saw a tornado was in 1958...Amazing!!!
More tornadic weather is expected for the area again today as well as into Southern Saskatchewan...this has been quite the year for tornadoes in the USA...and hopefully the wide open fields of the Prairies in the weeks to come!
Oh and yesterday was a bust...looked more like a 'see text' to me.
The long range pattern doesn't change that much and moisture continues to be pumped northward into the Northern Plains/Southern Canada. As dew points climb and heat and instability increase...we can expect more and more Mesoscale Convective Systems to develop in the late evening and overnight over the next few days...any supercells that do form in this moist regime along any remnant MCS boundary will likely be low contrast HP monsters with ground scraping wall clouds...terrible from a chaser's perspective...we need a wiper blade (cold front) to flush out the moisture so it can build back slowly and give us mid-teen dewpoints and not low-mid twenty dews...
I thought I'd never say this...but the moisture is too high! The only way to offset this is to give us mid-upper 30 temperatures so we can raise those cloud bases.
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