At 19Z satellite imagery indicates a field of congested cumuli near the Manitoba escarpment. Check it out:
Upper charts and local VADs depict a decent amount of flow and there are many wiggles in the water vapour imagery. The SPC mesoanalyses show in excess of 1500 J/kg of MLCAPE.
Surface winds are veered a little bit but are pretty weak right now.
So if we can get an upper impulse coming in to increase lift and back the low-level winds, magic could happen.
I'll be on the lookout to go chasing this afternoon.
Apparently not.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's the way chasing goes; sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield. This time I didn't go chasing but was prepared to do so while a dear friend and I had a Canada Day dinner. Burgers on the patio; what could be better?
Oh and I just saw lightning to the north. It's 1 AM.
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