IMPRESSIVE STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST EARLIER! (credit: Meteorologist Ryan Hanrahan)

DISCUSSION: In the wake of an approaching cold front, several areas of intense thunderstorms erupted earlier yesterday afternoon and evening as a result of warm/moist air being lifted in the presence of an increasingly unstable atmosphere.  As a result of this fairly high convective instability, a number of storms which formed in regions characterized by fairly high convective instability and decent wind shear exhibited very impressive outflow structures such as the storms captured below across parts of Central and Southern Connecticut during the afternoon/evening hours on Monday!  Note the particularly low cloud-bases moving through those areas earlier in the day on Monday; likely caused large amounts of low-level moisture aiding in fantastic surface-based convective storms as seen below!  To learn more about other high-impact weather events from across North America, be sure to click here!