Heat Wave's End Causes Lots Of Severe Weather, Except In Vermont

Clouds tried to build over St. Albans during the heat wave
this past weekend, but the triggers weren't there to set off
much in the way of real storms.

Toward the end of a big heat wave, severe thunderstorms often break the heat.

That was certainly true with the just-ended heat wave. Tornadoes and derechos in the upper Midwest over the weekend prompted a state of emergency in Wisconsin, where hundreds of acres of forest were leveled by straight line winds that probably exceeded 100 mph in spots.

Storms in the Mid-Atlantic states and southern New England that ended the heat caused widespread tree damage and flash flooding.  Wind gusts hit as high as 80 mph in a couple spots.

There was even a tornado warning for a time on Cape Cod last night.

It all went around Vermont. True, far southern Vermont got a nice soaker yesterday, with rainfall totals exceedeing two inches. But there were very few reports of severe weather. Maybe an isolated incident or two Saturday evening, but that's about it.

That Vermont escaped the storms was probably just dumb luck.  The timing and set up of the cold front around us just wasn't right to trigger lots of big storms this time. Unlike much of the rest of tje nation, the Green Mountain State has so far had a mellow severe storm season. There have just not been that many damaging storms.

Of course, summer isn't over yet so we can still get hit. We do know that there's nothing major coming our way through the next week or so. It will turn very warm and humid again by the weekend, which are good ingredients for storms.

But like last weekend, there will be no real triggers to set off storms, so there will only be a few isolated storms. At least that's the way it looks now.

Some videos:

Here's the storm destruction in Post Lake, Wisconsin:



Acres and acres of forests leveled in northern Wisconsin:


During the beginning of the storm in Wisconsin. Apparently, it got a lot worse after they went
inside after the conclusion of this video:



This brief video looks like the midst of a hurricane, but it was a New Jersey severe storm:



News report here gives a pretty good summary of how things went in New Jersey and New York: