Tarmo Tanilsoo
EF5
Today, a number of reports about downed trees have emerged from Western half of Estonia. Wind gusts up to 24,8 m/s have been measured in some Estonian places. I have been lucky here, in the southeastern part of the country, as far as winds go, I had just some heavy rain downpours, with strong winds. Overnight I had 17,3 mm of rain, most of them came in a few squalls over the night hours. One of the strongest squalls was between 3-4 AM in the morning when very strong rain along with heavy winds stroke so loud that it awakened the family members and me.
The strangest report from today comes from Järva county, where around 5 AM, people were awakened by the tempest conditions. This squall had destroyed a number of trees, damaged roofs and even ripped off a satellite dish from a house. A local newspaper has published some pictures from that event there. Interestingly, no such winds that could do such a damage were measured by any of the EMHI's weather stations in the area, so there had to be some local very strong squalls.
There was also convective activity, I had heard thunder rumble at least once today, but mostly I have just had to settle with seeing cumulonimbus clouds, I was able to do this time lapse of one departing CB cloud here. Last night, air was so humid that even past midnight, the air temperature was in low over 18 degrees Celsius. Also, yesterday, there was apparent directional wind shear in the atmosphere with higher clouds.
Just thought I'd let you know what the weather had been up to.
The strangest report from today comes from Järva county, where around 5 AM, people were awakened by the tempest conditions. This squall had destroyed a number of trees, damaged roofs and even ripped off a satellite dish from a house. A local newspaper has published some pictures from that event there. Interestingly, no such winds that could do such a damage were measured by any of the EMHI's weather stations in the area, so there had to be some local very strong squalls.
There was also convective activity, I had heard thunder rumble at least once today, but mostly I have just had to settle with seeing cumulonimbus clouds, I was able to do this time lapse of one departing CB cloud here. Last night, air was so humid that even past midnight, the air temperature was in low over 18 degrees Celsius. Also, yesterday, there was apparent directional wind shear in the atmosphere with higher clouds.
Just thought I'd let you know what the weather had been up to.
