A thread for weather extremes that don’t normally get reported

I think attempting to pull the curtain made all the difference lol

I don't know why it took them almost 8 years to establish that, but hey, better late than never! ;-)

Well, they mentioned that "This particular flash was not identified in the original 2017 analysis of the storm but was discovered through a re-examination of the thunderstorm."

The megaflash occurred in October 2017, during a major thunderstorm complex. It extended from eastern Texas to near Kansas City - equivalent to the distance between Paris and Venice in Europe.

didn’t know what thread to put this in so I’ll put it here. It seems the recent 8.8 Kamchatka ‘quake has triggered off ‘a parade of volcanoes’. This is from ABC news.
….. The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last week has triggered the activity of seven volcanoes in the area, according to the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

The RAS said this is the first time in almost 300 years that seven volcanoes erupted at once in the region …….

We might just get a cold winter?

No, there would be no connection between quakes in say the Far East of Russia and Chile. Different plates or tectonics I think it’s called.
Seven volcanoes erupting simultaneously is a very major event and I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t have some effect on northern hemisphere weather patterns at some stage, maybe some nice autumnal sunsets too?

Was very hot today as well

Here are some maximum temperatures recorded this Sunday afternoon (provisional values at 5 p.m.):

• 42.2 °C in Moules-et-Baucels (Hérault);
• 42.1 °C in Villevieille (Gard);
• 41.3 °C in Céret (Pyrénées Orientales);
• 41.1 °C in Cadenet (Vaucluse);
• 40.9 °C in Nîmes (Gard);
• 40, 8 °C in Narbonne (Aude)
• 40.8 °C in Uzès (Gard);
• 40.8 °C in Lodève (Hérault);
• 40.1 °C in Carpentras (Vaucluse);
• 40.0 °C in Avignon (Vaucluse).

At the Nîmes-Garons station, opened in 1964, we had never measured such a high temperature during the month of August, in front of the 40.4 °C of 20/08/2023, but we had already measured more, 44.1 °C on 06/28/2019.

Soil is very dry there as well

Soil drought is more pronounced in the Southwest. With the very low rainfall expected and the rise in temperatures to come, the soils should continue their drying in the coming days. They could reach a situation close to the historically dry levels observed in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions.

A stiff breeze no doubt