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1.76" IMBY for July. Nicely drier than the 6.91" in June. Pool time has been on the upswing.

chad and you protesting? #stopthesteal #makelafhotagain

Looks like they fixed LAF. Chad is not thrilled I assume. June 2021 avg high temps LAF: 88.1˚ IND: 83.1˚ July 2021 avg high temps LAF: 81.8˚ IND: 82.3˚

If I had received all the rain WPC has predicted for MBY this summer (and my p&c forecasts as well), I'd be over 30" for the season. Anyways, been a nice couple of days with no rain. Hopefully we can avoid most of it later today and tomorrow as well. Then it looks like a nice warm and dry stretch for a time. Pool time incoming.

Relatively small area of LOT's CWA got raked by heavy rain last night (parts of LaSalle and Grundy counties). Was watching on radar last night, and a north/south band just parked itself over that area and poured. https://www.weather.gov/lot/2021jul12 1019 PM HEAVY RAIN 4 NW VERONA 41.25N 88.55W 07/12/2021 M6.19 INCH GRUNDY IL MESONET 3 HOUR RAINFALL TOTAL OF 6.19 INCHES FROM A PERSONAL WEATHER STATION.

I'm certainly no fan of the high heat/humidity combo...but this struggling to get into the low 70's everyday with solid overcast that'd make January blush, is for the birds. Misery mist at times too.

Can verify first cicadas of the summer. Actually heard a few yesterday afternoon, and thought whoa...they're here. Also, lots and lots of manufactured t&l last night.

5.83" total at mi casa during this stormy stretch (6/23-30). Majority of it was from the 25th thru the early evening of the 26th (4.47").

Finally got under some legit rains here last night...2.02" here from the evening/overnight storms. Really, was expecting worse with how the radar looked when I went to bed. My weather station had a peak hourly rainfall rate of 4.13" at 10:00pm. Ground soaked it up like a sponge though. 3.40" total since this shebang started on Thursday.

This is awful. And only the beginning of several days of rain. So bad…

Miss south stank

INZ028-029-035-036-043>045-051>053-122000- WEST CENTRAL INDIANA CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS CRAWFORDSVL + MOSUNNY 89 64 44 CALM 29.87F HX 90 GREENCASTLE + FAIR 90 67 45 CALM 29.87F HX 93 LAFAYETTE MOSUNNY 98 70 40 CALM 29.83F HX 105 TERRE HAUTE NOT AVBL INZ030>032-037>040-046>048-054>057-064-065-122000- CENTRAL INDIANA CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS FRANKFORT + MOSUNNY 91 68 46 N5 29.86F HX 95 GREENWOOD *+ PTSUNNY 90 69 48 SW3 29.87F HX 94 INDIANAPOLIS PTSUNNY 92 63 38 NW9 29.86S HX 93 -EAGLE CREEK MOSUNNY 92 67 43 VRB3 29.85F HX 95 MARION + MOSUNNY 89 66 46 N5 29.87S HX 92 MT COMFORT *+ PTSUNNY 91 73 55 CALM 29.87S HX 100 SHELBYVILLE MOSUNNY 93 69 45 W8 29.85S HX 98

To beat the LAF issue a little more, here's the average max temp for June through yesterday, for a few sites in Indiana. Yeah, nothing to see here. Chad says its legit. BMG: 80.5 EVV: 81.5 FWA: 81.8 HUF: 82.5 IND 81.2 SBN: 84.8 LAF: 88.3

If Chad is their verification, well then I showed the analysis data back a page or two. It’s running warm. Find it a little hard to believe that newer construction is biasing it that much. Unless they poured asphalt right under the thermometer. But, who knows...

At least you got AC in your truck. This weather is brutal for those of us that work outside. Today is the worst here thus far. Of course, dealing with super cold isn’t easy either...

Monsoon here. Rich get richer i guess. But, no T & L. Such a rarity anymore it seems.

Found the site I was looking for... https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/KLAF?days=182#Data ...analysis of weather sites and their accuracy. Heres a couple of charts for LAF, last 26 and 52 weeks of temperature data. Negative values equate to the station running too warm, and vice versa. LAF's high temp reading errors in the 26 week chart (yellow squares) are lol.

Oh my

I haven’t paid any attention to LAF in a long time. Is it really running that warm? And trolling me...you always can use IKK to do that. Especially dewpoints

A year ago, every news website in the US, if not the world, would be calling this a super spreader event...in all caps. People would be losing their minds. We're certainly not out of the woods, but times sure have changed. It's really nice to see.

Even closer IMBY to ORD. 3.96" for May. 12.50" for the year. But, IKK is drought proof. Rain capital of IL.

Awful awful day for May 28. At least the monsoon held off until after work. Just pouring rain here this evening.

You're the JB of summer forecasting. What are we going with this year, a combo of 1936 and 2012?

0.77". It's ovah. 3.22" now. 2nd place gone. Thursday-Friday system may push this spring out of the top 5 possibly, according to some guidance. We'll see...