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20 Sep, 11 tweets, 13 min read
Admittedly, July had more stuff than June. Alot of material to cover & all. We will be happy to reveal them all in the #WxWrapUp for July 2021. (🧵 of 10; (1/10)
#Tropics: Elsa may have brought the memes, but the impacts were no laughing matter. Elsa nearly caused $1B in damages & effects were felt from Barbados to Greenland where it snowed. Elsa is the earliest "E" storm on record. (2/10)
The EPac had the furious Felicia which brought us a treat of an amazing annular structure. It was a very small tropical cyclone with the CDO extending out ~80mi in diameter. You can put Felicia in the eye of Typhoon In-fa because it was that small, and speaking of which... (3/10)
The WPac had 2 damaging storms, In-fa & Cempaka. Cempaka casued serious flooding to Hong Kong & southern China while, In-fa did the worst. It stalled over the Okinawa region & causing life threatening flooding to eastern China. So far, In-fa's damage total reached $1B. (4/10)
#Severewx: July had its fair share of events. A few tornadoes spawned from Elsa. 17 tornadoes were confirmed from that. We also had a few tornadoes in Iowa including an EF3 in Lake City. A last minute 10% TOR risk was introduced there. 23 tornadoes occurred in IA that day. (5/10)
Also we had multiple intense tornadoes in China. A total of 14+ tornadoes were reported throughout the country. Also, an EF2 slammed into Barrie, ON sustaining major damages to residential neighborhoods. More tornadoes formed throughout Canada. (6/10)
During the last few days of July, a major outbreak took place in the Mid-Atlantic, mainly in PA & NJ. A large & destructive EF3 hit Bensalem causing injuries & massive damages. A rare PDS Tornado Warning had been issued for the region. It's PA's 1st EF3+ since 2003. (7/10)
OtherWx: Extreme flood occurred in Central Europe in Belgium & Germany. This led to a mass causality event killing 242. A cutoff low stalled across the region dumping hundreds of millimeters of rain. It's Germany's worst flooding since 1962. (8/10)
It didn't stop in Europe as Henan, China got rocked by disastrous flooding too. A total of 302 were killed with 50 still missing. Around $12.7B USD of damages were caused by said flooding. Typhoon In-fa was indirectly responsible along with a subtropical upper-lvl ridge. (9/10)
On the topic of #firewx, the fire season in the West USA is just unbearable. The town of Greenville, CA lies in ruins. This season has became the largest wildfire season on record & adding extreme droughts & oppressive heat waves brought more salt to the wound. (10/10)

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31 Aug
(🧵of 6) #DidYouKnow: The name #Ida has been used 19 times for a tropical cyclone? It’s been used:
Atlantic: 3
West Pacific: 13
SW Indian/AUS/SPac: 3
Here are the storms that were tagged the name Ida in this thread.
Atlantic:
1. Hurricane Ida ‘09 (C2)
2. Tropical Storm Ida ‘15
3. Hurricane Ida ‘21 (C4)

Also fun fact: Ida replaced Isabel as a TC name when it got retired. Should Ida get retired, that means all Female “I” names on the Atlantic naming list as been retired twice.

(2/6)
West Pacific:
1. Typhoon Ida ‘45 (C1)
2. Typhoon Ida ‘50 (C1)
3. Super Typhoon Ida ‘54 (C5)
4. Super Typhoon Ida ‘58 (C5)
(3/6)
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30 Aug
The before & after pictures of Grand Isle, #Louisiana after #Ida. Looks really grimacing. #LAwx #HurricaneIda #Tropics
And please note, we did not take this. The owner of this is unknown as well. We will update you who this was & give credit to the person responsible.
UPDATE: Credits go to @nytimes for the image above.
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14 Aug
And now, onto June 2021 where we also have some wild weather stories to share in our latest #WxWrapUp! (1/7) Image
#Tropics: The South Atlantic blew us out the water with a strong subtropical storm in the winter of the SHem. Raoni formed & strengthened to a windspeed of 60mph, the strongest since Eçaí, & the strongest pressure wise since Hurricane Catarina '04. Such a rare event. (2/7) ImageImageImageImage
Other than that, the ATL was busy with 3 systems, Bill, Claudette, & Danny. Claudette caused some significant damage to the south with 14 deaths (deadliest tropical storm in US since Fay '08) & bringing a few tornadoes (stated in a later thread). (3/7) ImageImageImageImage
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