Quite the T-storm system rolling through Boise, Idaho right now.

[yonder]

It's very localized. We average +/-12" total precipitation a year. So far we've gotten 2.5" with some areas reporting 3.5". More coming.

[niyad]

1. Oh my goodness. Be safe, everyone.

[yonder]

2. ...

[2naSalit]

3. We had that earlier this after noon...

And yesterday. In Billings, MT on 6/5 they had 3" of rain in one rain event. There were NWS warnings on the radio about flash flooding as a massive rain storm welled up, covering the middle HALF of Montana this afternoon.

It's sort of blown out now but you can see the enormity of it...



https://www.aviationweather.gov/satellite/plot?region=cod

[MontanaMama]

4. This is an odd thunderstorm season for us

here in Missoula. We usually have big time storms this time of year but they seem to be following the ridge lines of the mountains and not settling in the valleys. Very unusual.

[2naSalit]

6. Same here...

I watched most of them go by. So I have to keep watering. We did get quite a bit last week but these, I can see the tops on the other side of the mountain tops and they sail right on by and never make it over the ridge.

That is because the system is moving south to north. I you go to that link you will be able to see a larger picture that 'splains it real good.

https://www.aviationweather.gov/satellite

[yonder]

5. Wow, part of a bigger system than I thought. Mostly from the SE for us, unusual in itself.

IMO, unusual weather events have been increasing. Nearly seven decades of wandering about this blustery ball lets me claim that, as anecdotal it might be.

[2naSalit]

7. I spent...

A couple decades running all over the middle of the continent and I had to rely on watching the weather for survival.

Now I look at a number of weather sites online every day before I do much else.

I like to see the global satellite images, I can figure out a lot just by seeing those, especially the loop animation. It seems these storms are generated from ambient moisture since there are no clouds at the break of day yet there are massive thunderheads forming by nine o'clock in the morning. The rotation of two large gyr patterns that seem to be permanently in place over the central US and the immediate eastern Pacific ocean have been making our odd weather for months.