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Awesome continuous lightning with this storm at the moment. Getting 40mph winds and torrential rain. Mid-level meso passing just north.

Nice light show to the west. Looks like we'll be adding to the 1.40" from earlier.

Nice soaker this morning with thunder for hours. Picked up 1.27" and counting.

This would certainly cause a strain on local farmers.

Good to hear.

Has that been doing better than the HRRR and NAM3? I haven't really used that one yet.

33 here this AM, but warmed into the middle 60s this afternoon. The full sun and light winds made it feel like 75 compared to the recent cold spell.

Despite covering the plants, both my brother and my dad lost 90% of their gardens to the hard freeze last week. The farm fields around have started to sprout corn despite the cold weather. The farmers have had ideal planting conditions this season. Corn should take off pretty nicely later this week when the near 80 degree warmth arrives.

There's always the Flowbee.

Frost advisory was a big bust as widespread cloud cover COC blocked the potential.

Low to mid 90s for central/southern MN on the Euro around day 10. Most of the sub only makes it to the low to mid 80s though.

Those bad boys are mean as hell. If you're gonna shoot their nest with a bee-bee gun, make sure you have a clean escape route, and fast transportation away from the area.

We reached 99 degrees less than 6 weeks after our last snow flakes that season.

Only made it to 48 today, with a steady light rain all day. Picked up 1.05" since last evening.

Are we gonna have a homicidal wasp thread?

Yellowstone?

Unless something changes on the models that will bust. Could spend most of the day in the mid 40s with cold rain falling. Maybe we can sneak in a 50 reading early in the day before the steadier rains move in.

It's gonna be in the 40s all day Tue with rain. It might as well be snowing lol.

12z Euro shows some flurries around the Chicago area on Friday lol. Meanwhile, today is fantastic. Lots of sun after some morning clouds, and temps have jumped into the 70s.

Early planting is usually kind of a waste of time anyway. Nothing really takes off until we start getting the warm/humid nights consistently, which is usually June. Everything explodes in growth then, so if you planted something late it would usually catch up to whatever was planted early/successfully anyway.

We have 99 confirmed at ours, with 2 deaths. That's with only 2 counties reporting, there's about 3 other counties with workers that haven't reported.

Today was quite lame.

All I wanna know is if MLB is ever going to give money back to their fans for tickets already purchased? So far there have been no refunds for games that should have already been played. I guess the games are still technically postponed, which is ridiculous cause the games will not be made up, especially with fans in attendance. I have 3 tickets for Yankee game May 24 at Skankee Stadium. Was really looking forward to seeing a game there, even if it isn't the original house that Baby Ruth built. Anyway, what the MLB is pulling right now with their loyal fans in the midst of this financial crisis is enough for me to vow that I will never purchase one of their tickets ever again. I hope more do the same. **** them.

SPC removed most of north IL from the day 2 threat. Euro and RGEM both continue to develop some precip over the area, so I guess we'll have to see how things evolve.

18z 3km NAM continues to show expansive cloud cover that severely limits surface heating for most of the risk area Tuesday. Will be interesting to see if the HRRR shows this as well when we get within 36hrs. If the NAM verifies this one is DOA.