July 4th, 1969: The "Ohio Fireworks" derecho struck the Lower Great Lakes region. Several tornadoes and powerful winds as high as 104 mph were produced by the squall line. At least 40 people, many being boaters on Lake Erie, were killed, and dozens more were injured.

That's a shame

Juston Drake and I documented an impressive supercell mesocyclone structure with multivortex tornado over farmland outside Chester, Nebraska earlier this evening, July 3, 2026 (view looking south-southeast from the inflow notch). #newx

I made it into an episode of Discovery's Eye of the Storm for a split second

It's Independence Day eve so remember to leave out a bowl of fireworks for Captain America tonight

July 2nd, 1982: A Los Angeles man, Larry Walters, took off from his backyard in a lawn chair attached to 42 Army surplus weather balloons. Lawnchair Larry ascended to 16,000 feet and descended by shooting out the balloons with a pellet gun. He was fined by the FAA.

It's 90/75

Shout out to @cira-csu.bsky.social for finding one of the cooler satellite animations I've seen in a minute. Outflows and gravity waves gliding over Lake Superior.

My blood pressure or the current temp/dew point?

Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building with a banner promoting peace and appear to get engaged https://cnn.it/4eEaRMG

That's a hell of a lot of CAPE

Thank God I got sent home from work after only an hour on the hottest day of the year

It is 78 degrees at 5 am

June 30 - July 1st, 2014: A "one-two punch" derecho event impacted much of the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. The most continuous and intense damage occurred over eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and northern Indiana, where some locations were affected by both storm systems.

Unbelievable damage to a wind farm near Highmore, South Dakota after this morning’s storm. #sdwx 📸 cred via @jakobwx.bsky.social x

June 29th, 2023: A powerful derecho tore through the Central Plains and Midwest. It produced widespread swaths of damaging winds of 80+ mph, with some locations in Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois measuring gusts up to 100 mph. Eight tornadoes – including an EF2 – were confirmed.

Extreme

Storm in South Dakota is currently warned for 100 mph winds

Meanwhile in Canada

#weatherpicofday OTD last year, June 28, 2025, Juston Drake and I documented a few decent twisters near the communities of Clear Lake and Gary, South Dakota. #sdwx

Mel Brooks is 100 years old today! Drop a gif of a favorite film of his.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Caught some amazing lightning over the past few days, including a few really close bolts! I was exposed for the wall cloud on this tornado warned storm when my lightning trigger captured this beauty!

Joey Irving caught this impressive storm structure just south of Tiffin yesterday (Thursday)! A small area of rotation did indeed appear on radar over Sandusky County around 8:30pm... only damage report I've seen so far from this cell was a 21" tree downed by the wind. #Ohio #storm #weather

Close up video of the tornado that went through Los Lunas around 3:30 pm today! The tornado crossed Main St. near Camelot Blvd. Video courtesy of Shawn Vigil. #NMwx #Tornado #NewMexico

A viewer captured either a landspout tornado or a strong dust devil in Los Lunas this afternoon! You can see power flashes & debris get lofted up. It's hard to say exactly what it is from this angle since we can't tell if it's connected to the clouds. #NMwx

( #NWSAmarillo): Here is a photo of the #tornado in Beaver county that prompted the observed tornado warning. Photo Credits: Christian Rangel #phwx #Oklahoma #OKwx #wx #wxsky

I think we caught a diving bird with the Marblehead Lighthouse Action Cam (courtesy: Shores & Islands Ohio). Zoom!

Supercell structure and horseshoe vortex over the canyons, north of Kim, CO 7:28 p.m.

Thank you to Vernon Leroy Williams Jr. for sending in this tornado video from Texico, Illinois. Are you seeing a tornado from where you are? Send us your photos/videos here >>> https://shorturl.at/5DR4k 

PDS tornado warning for a confirmed tornado in southern Illinois

Happy first day of summer 🏖️

OTD last year, June 20, 2025, Juston Drake and I documented multiple powerful supercells and tornadoes between the towns of Spiritwood and Enderlin, Nirth Dakota, including the 1st official NWS-rated EF5 Twister since May 20, 2013. Then got hit by a ridiculous MCV. #NDwx

Video shows a funnel cloud passing through Chalmette, Louisiana on Friday.

A #tornado was sighted near Effingham #Illinois ( #ILwx ) in ongoing severe weather outbreak Wednesday evening (June 17) (WCIA3 )-TV: "Tornado happening right now!" "We're looking at it. There it is...clear as day." #wx #wxsky

Tornado ongoing north of Effingham, Illinois

PDS tornado warning for a confirmed tornado in Wisconsin

So glad I couldn't get tomorrow off to chase 🙃

3 years ago today, 12 twisters spawned from a complex diving SSE through NW Ohio/SE Michigan -- including an EF-2 in the Point Place neighborhood of Toledo. 🌪️ #Ohio #tornado

Managed to snagged a gustnado crossing the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky earlier today youtu.be/Pvhi8bQlE0k?...

Nearly the entire state of Ohio is under. Severe thunderstorm watch

Get in nerd we're going storm chasing

We're so back

Tornado striking a farm east of Dwight, #ILwx last night. And this was like...the 4th craziest tornado of the event.

Video from the east side of Streator, Illinois from Ashley Heider. "There's two! There's two!" (wgntv.com/weather/seve...) #ILwx

It’s forbidden jump rope time #ILwx #WXsky

What a shelf cloud to end the chase! South of Miami, Oklahoma

We're so back. East of Dwight #ILwx 10 min ago

Oh that boy was strong