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CURRENTLY: THE SKY IS BEING WATCHED.

THE CALL

The severe window that never opened

CALLED 2026-06-11THE MODELS ARE FIGHTINGSTATUS: BUSTEDBUST

The call

What's going to happen, in one paragraph, no hedging.

Discrete supercells fire on the dryline between 4 and 7pm, and at least two of them go tornadic before the line congeals after dark.

The why

The setup, the models, and what they agree on.

3,500 J/kg of CAPE, 55 knots of effective shear, and a dryline sharpening in exactly the place it usually sharpens. Two of three convection-allowing models broke out storms. I went with the two.

What would change my mind

The specific things I'm watching that could flip this forecast.

The cap. I said out loud that the cap would break by 4pm and I was wrong by roughly forever. The 700mb warm nose was two degrees stronger than sampled and nothing ever went up.

Why it missed

I weighted the two models that agreed with the outcome I wanted and discounted the one that kept the cap intact. That is not analysis, that is wishcasting with extra steps. The fix is mechanical: when the models split, the capped solution gets equal weight until a sounding says otherwise.