cyclone77

Definitely seems like the ongoing MCV will be a big focus today. Convection continues to bubble up nicely from central IA down into especially northern MO. Would imagine that to hold it's own for several hours and eventually increase and become severe later today. Any place ahead of that feature is in play for today, just depends how soon it takes off and starts producing severe. Definitely could see some tor potential with that. Behind it with the cold front is definitely looking pretty good as well. Very nice synoptic setup for a band of severe with that. How strong that gets depends on how much Iowa destabilizes later today. Clearing already working into western IA already. SPC meso shows steep mid LR out over the Plains, and those will shift into IA later today which will also help. Forecast soundings show pretty good low-level shear and nice vorticity advection with the potent incoming vort max is nice as well. HRRR has showed isolated cells popping up ahead out in the open warm sector which may be another good sign. All in all should be an interesting day.

8 AOA 90 degree days here this year, all in June. MLI has 9. Lots of lightning in the southern sky tonight. A big FU from ma nature as she teases us yet again.

Kind of sucks to be really close to the enhanced from SPC and prob won't get much rain again tonight. SPC really trolling us the past two days lol. Hopefully we can at least get a wussy elevated shower or two later tonight.

Substantial bump northward on the latest outlook over Iowa and Illinois. IL QC now in enhanced for sig hail. This area was barely in marginal earlier.

Only 0.11" early this morning. After how bad radar looked late last evening I'll take it.

Looks like SPC may have been a wee bit too expansive with their risk area for this event.

Got a mini-heat burst going on here right now. Getting 30-40mph southeast winds and the temp has jumped up from 80 to 82 degrees, still climbing. EDIT: Up to 83 now.

Baseball size hail a bit earlier southwest of Redwing MN.

Got up to 93 here and at MLI today. Got a decaying band of thunder sprinkles moving in from the nose of Iowa. Hoping for some late night thunder/heavy rain but if the stuff that forms remains elevated and doesn't form a cold pool it would likely move more eastward than southeast. Guess we'll see.

Yep, may have to wait till the next 'event' lol. Oh well getting a great workout from watering every other night.

^Geos bullseye lol.

59 early this morning but already back up to 82. Dews still pretty meager in the mid 50s. Looking forward to Iowa sloppy seconds later tonight. Must be a hell of a crop of cottonwood seeds this year. Just cleaned off the AC condenser fins and they were pretty caked up with them.

There's def a sense of confusion. Almost reminds me of game 7 back in 2016, did that REALLY just happen?

Got down to 56 here, and currently the dew is 46. Not too shabby for mid June. My jaw almost came out of it's sockets this morning when I saw we were included in a slight risk for tomorrow.

I'd like to lock that in, maybe a slight bump northeast.

86 so far here, but dews in the mid 50s so not bad out there. Gonna be laying a lot of rock down tomorrow out in front of the house so glad the dews will be quite low for mid June.

Can even see that smoke plume from here, on the eastern horizon. Here's a link to that Furnace Creek in Death Valley weather station data. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=DEVC1&num=72&banner=gmap&raw=0&w=325

Gonna be tough sleeping Wed night with that low of 97 degrees.

Dipped way down to 55 this morning, but made it back to 90 this afternoon. MLI tagged 93.

Was just out watering and u can def tell a difference in the humidity. Dews have now dipped into the fiddies

That's gotta feel nice, still 68 here. Looking forward to the much drier air.

Either got sandblasted by the dust or pressure washed by the torrent.

Over an inch already at ORD and still dumping. More cells just northwest moving in. 2"+?

Nice thunderheads way off in the eastern sky, dews starting to decline here after being in the low 70s all day. Next rain chance a week plus out.

No it's an MSP. Sorry couldn't resist.