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HRRR still doesn't have a good handle on the current convection, which suggests that its solution for later on is tossworthy. Expect the severe threat to include areas north of where the HRRR has it.

I vaguely remember it. At least I think I do. Don't remember anybody saying the word Plainfield but recall hearing about a bad tornado in Illinois and it seemed like it was summertime.

89'd at ORD 92 MDW

Took me a sec to realize why 8/28 seemed like a significant day. Then I thought oh yeah, Plainfield tornado. 32 years. Plainfield and Oak Lawn are basically 1a and 1b for me as far as historical tornadoes in Chi metro, because of the amount of death and destruction caused by each. Everything else is in tiers below that with the possible exception of the 3/28/1920 tornado that went through western/northern Cook county. Even though Plainfield was F5, I don't know if I'd call it "worse" than Oak Lawn. That F5 was based on damage to a field, not to any of the buildings, so it's quite likely that the same tornado today would not be rated over EF4. I think the Oak Lawn F4 rating would probably hold up as EF4 though as some of the damage in Oak Lawn looked pretty extreme, at least based on pics. Plainfield does have the out of season claim though, as it's extremely rare to get something of that magnitude at this time of year (especially in IL).

CAMs don't look half bad for tomorrow, especially because expectations are low and the boring stretch makes it seem more exciting than it otherwise would be. My main question is whether it will include this area or if activity won't reach maturity until just south.

GFS getting a little again

Nothing impressive but the warmest wx in a while looks to be coming on Sunday and possibly Monday. Maybe a make a run at 90 in the urban core of Chicago kind of setup.

Let me guess who was warmer.

The 6z GFS managed to do something that may be unprecedented. It has a hurricane making landfall in Louisiana on 9/4 and tracks the remnant low into... Minnesota. That's even farther west than Cristobal from a couple years ago.

At least MKE hit 100.

I was 9 years old at the time and can remember watching coverage on TWC and being fascinated by it. I actually named one of my pets Andrew.

Does the weather exist anymore?

Fortunately we'll never see it here, short of nuclear winter. But we'd have bigger problems in that case.

ORD's high overachieved over the HRRR by 4-5 degrees. Even the runs from this afternoon missed by that much. That's a pretty good trick to pull off. Usually you're not going to beat the HRRR by that much unless the HRRR is modeling storms in the area and it ends up more sunny or something like that, but that's not what happened today.

Indeed. ORD now at 1.05" for the month and I noticed there was actually a small D0 area added back in on the latest drought monitor.

Holy crap, there was some kind of shooting at the nearby Dick's Sporting Goods and I was just there. Trying to find out more info but there isn't much out there yet.

Bored to tears with no real end in sight.

Hopefully we get an active severe Fall in this sub. And I mean in the heart of Fall, not December.

I ain't ever heard of Senior Citizens day before this thread.

This just screams excitement and action. Pray for a tropical remnant hit.

It's actually been fairly dry around here this month. ORD only had 0.44" in Aug through yesterday, which is over 2" below average.

Seriously? Those days when MDW hit 100 were probably similar downtown.

Today will break the 11 day streak of below average temps at ORD (though most days were only 1-2 degrees cooler than average). Yeah folks, it's boring. We gotta work with what we have.

Boring Boring Why is my weather so boring

The media sucks. They are talking about heat index but it's presented as actual temperatures reaching 125. Smh