Chinook

some severe warnings close to Chicago

It is at 140kt (category 5) and expected to decrease to 130 kt and go up to 150 kt while being directly on track for the Northern Mariana Islands (USA)

new enhanced risk in southern Michigan, and these storm reports from around Chicago

development of Typhoon Bavi (now 125 kt)

June 30th-July 1st max heat indices were 106 and 103 at Toledo 97.7 with heat index 106.3

It must be another sort of nasty, hazy day for you guys My place in Ohio hit 99, the highest since 2024, I think. It's pretty bad. Near Pueblo: Aspen Acres fire quote is from Channel 9: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/wildfires-burning-in-colorado/73-519755c1-a9bf-446d-b414-183aca9268c7

Brown sky

Web cams from Colorado show a lot of haze from forest fires.

A squall moved from Cheyenne to Fort Collins, and the windy outflow boundary made it down to Denver, with renewed storm development right at Denver

tornado possible near Chicago

small supercell with 0.75" hail at Algonquin IL

new mesoscale discussion

from yesterday

Right now there's tons of wildfire smoke from Utah coming into Colorado, and two hailstorms in Colorado Springs,

This is great!