Lightning

My thought from driving around is the very cool nights (42F one of the nights I was there and it has been cooler previously). Lake shore areas I didn't notice much colors but the inland areas seemed to be where most of the colors are. That was my observations. Could likely just be a combination of all these factors

Had a couple chilly but awesome nights in the low to mid40s while backpacking in the Porcupine Mtns last week (good sleeping bags = no problem with cooler temps). Saw several spectacular shooting stars!!! No northern light last week but wasn't expecting any. Thankfully no smoke until the day we left!!!

I was backpacking in the Porcupine Mtns all last week, right on the Lake Superior shore. My tent was 100' off the shore when this hit. It was awesome to watch this come across LS and then jumped in the tent once it rain got heavy. Tons of streaks and wonderful loud thunders. Thankfully we did not get any overly strong/severe winds. Waves were awesome the next day 4-5'.

Just had my best CG of the year for me. Today's little tstorm a few minutes ago put one about 300' off my deck. Striking the lake. More importantly I was looking right at it.

Sunday night and Monday looks like a great chance for heavier rains. Corn and soy should be fine.

We had a few around here it seems to have improved as it head south of me. Novi, Wixon and Farmington Hills looks like they got it good!!

The past 30 minutes the flashes have increased quite a bit the red cell it nearly on top of me but it is all CC. No CG near me. No big thunders either. Still great to get a storm. Note: Not saying there isn't CG but it definitely wasn't on the north part of the storm.

Looks like my hail mary pass worked . Funny thing is they keep doing these tornado warnings. Winds were actually stronger before the storms to be honest. The lightning is not really frequent as I have one close strike IMBY. Heaviest rains have been 2-10 miles to my north as the first hour we were not getting anything but now I am finally getting rain!! This is usually the best position for great lightning but like I said it's not been very frequent.

Wow. Today is turning into an complete model failure. Several days of models showing 1-2" QPF with several rounds of big thunderstorms starting around 2PM. Currently the results are 0" of rain (I know a few areas to the south have gotten at least a little as AA to DTW seems to always at least get something). Radar right now has a few isolated shower/t-showers in GRR area. Hoping for the hail mary ending!!

Had a quick thunderstorm this evening.

Had a decent size hive on under my deck. We found out by the neighbors dogs that they do not like the color black. The black dog was getting attached left and right while the other dogs (various colors) were not being bothered much at all. Seeing this happen to the neighbors dog was how we found it (could not believe how big it was and we didn't see it before). Used one can about 11 PM which took out 2/3 of the hive. Waited a week for all to calm down. Used a second can night and the hive was all gone (got to the queen). Thank goodness I have mosquito backpacking covering otherwise I am not sure if I would have been stung or not (couldn't see much at 11PM at night).

https://twitter.com/judah47/status/1688969275397050386?s=20 Not sure why is only is showing as a link but some posted this within the replies:

Just wow.

There some Canadian Rocks snow (blue) for yah on the GFS :

There are times I really think I could sell myself to cities in the Plains or MW as a big T-storm repellant. Save your city and hire me to move to your city. In fine print tell them the city might be destroyed when I go on vacation

Yeah the models definitely struggles with this system. Once it became 2 distinct waves instead of 1 bigger one the models seemed to be playing a lot of catch up to reality. Funny thing is the NAM the past 2 days seemed to perform the best for MBY. I did okay with nearly an 1". Like you say hawkeye it was a slow soak which is great for soil!

I have some great memories some fun fall tstorms. Tornadoes around here ... not so much

Fun video. Yeah I am hoping for a magical fall. August just does not look exciting IMO as everything seems to keep diving south of here again.

Oh well. Feeling that a big event just is not gonna happen IMBY this summer. This is not a widespread thing for SE MI rather an unfortunate localized thing for a second summer in a row which every storm has found a way to avoid MBY. This summer is an improvement from last year but again storms have found a way to miss here by a few miles (in July just south of Fenton they had a 4.45" storm while MBY being 2 miles further south only got 0.7" out of that event). Now 2021 summer was completely opposite which MBY got hit by several great events (funny how it balances out ).

This lead wave currently in northern MO being stronger is significantly impacting Aug 6th and 7th event. Models are all over the place. The 0z RGEM has me mostly dry

I love this type of weather too as I enjoy the humid days!! Humidity has never bothered me. I also enjoy fall and winter but could skip spring and go right to mid-summer weather like this with nocturnal storms every couple nights!!

The moon has been end times red the past couple nights!!!

Looks like it had some damage years ago and hasn't recovered well.

That's what it was like here yesterday. Solid Blue Sadly today was a bit milkier around here.