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@sbnwx85 You were right this basically is just winter storm forecasting in the summer

Probably the best lightning of the year so far with these storms rolling past

Would be a nice surprise W after what was a goofy miss on Thursday

Hoping to thread that needle between big storms and zero damage from either hail or wind tonight. As somebody said earlier in the year, the problem with extended active patterns is the second they slow down for even a few days it feels like a month since the last good storm

I just want the dunes to hit 70 something by like the second week of July. We're getting there pretty quick just through consistency; I have no doubt that just a week of 90+ would nearly finish the job

Lots of small hail with this cell heading into the city

That's crazy please keep sending pics

Downstream looks good here at least for some garden variety I hope

Gonna be interesting to see how tomorrow turns out, hoping we get a decent line at some point

I'll send some pictures but pockets of the forest preserve down the road are literally swarming with them. I realized on my dog walk yesterday for the first time how many there were; a certain kind of shrub that ig they like would have literally dozens of them per cubic foot or however one might measure cicada population density. They were all over the ground and for about a mile of trail, they were on virtually every single plant at every height. The next mile or so I couldn't find a single one.

Got some fluff out here too, didn't take long at all

Southern LM is already at almost 60°, just need a good heat wave and we're set

Keep us posted (pun intended)

A bit late to the show but last night around 3:30 I got quite the show in Plainfield. Ngl this was pretty close in swag levels to the recent eclipse at like 93% darkness or whatever

Some dog walk pics of a line of storms that rolled through a bit before sunset. Was zooted; walked up a local preserve sled hill and didn't realize how close the storms were getting until the first rain drops started falling out ahead. Just as I started to walk back down the hill, the cell headed straight for me started producing really consistent branching CC lightning; checked radarscope to find a new severe t-storm warning on said cell. Only then did it register that I now needed to run two miles back through the muddy ass forest to my neighborhood with the accompaniment of lightning overhead and rapidly worsening rain. I had barely wrapped my head around the warning when I started hearing tornado sirens. At that point, ofc, the ol' adrenal glands managed to shake off the thc with ease and whoo boy, I don't think my ass has hauled like that since college track. I did slip in the mud one like a fool but other than a muddy pair of pants, I was fine. Sirens lasted for about five minutes; family says they were on in Plainfield, too. The storm never received an official tornado warning, to my knowledge. I don't think I've ever seen the sky be that rich in color.

Raw as hell

While this isn't looking like a huge severe event locally, I'm happy to be seemingly reeling in another day of multiple rounds of storms. My heart of hearts would love to go chasing tomorrow but I'm extremely wary of any chase to the east of home because I despise that moment of realization when you consider that every minute you stay in pursuit becomes another minute you're going to spend driving back. I love driving, but what really seals the deal is my car doesn't have functioning cruise control atm (from when I had to replace the ignition cylinder back in November and I broke some pins on the module connecting everything under the steering column), and I'm not about to make myself have to drive six hours back from NW Ohio in the dark without CC.

Looking forward to some more storms this evening. Will be fun to see whether we just get some decaying popcorn at the hyper-local level or if a baby squall line can form as lot is discussing

Have had storms rolling through on and off for like the last 7 or 8 hours now. Nothing severe here really but the lightning was surprisingly good with this last wave. This really is a fun season overall, I can really get behind the storms every day or two

Little gv+ moving through right now packs a bit of a punch tbh. Nice gust or two for sure

You called that pretty good like over an hour in advance

Idk if I'm just dumb but I don't have any issue with LOT's radar on radarscope