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Mid July SNE Torch en route!


HoarfrostHubb

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Yeah, Euro hints at it, too... I recall one day in ...summer 01 or 02, we had an August deal with a package of 22C at 850mb well-timed diurnally. 100F was the forecasted hi for the typicals ... Surprise, MCS dies at 21z over Michigan and the next morning at 10-2pm, a tall columned cirrus puke veil was passing squarely overhead... Most sites made 95 with a couple of 97s but it definitely dented.

That's the problem when it is THAT edgy - it's "envelope" heat; in other words, pushing the physical bounds for deez parts. Need things to be perfect and when you flirt with perfection, those little flies in the flow have a tendency to buzz pretty loud.

It's kind of like getting 60" snow packs, or a blizzard of THAT proportion - something always perturbs the event enough to mute it's 100% potential. It's lousy forecast philosophy maybe, but on a philosophical level it actually makes more sense than that.

The upshot is that nearer term forecasting is in theory accounting for the flies, so if you are 24 hours out, satellite is clear, and the NAM has 35C at 980 on the FRH block, you're going to cook hard!

yeah that's part of the problem around here it seems...it's a bit of a catch-22. to some extent you need to be on that "envelope" to catch that good plume of heat emanating out of the MW/OV and be in a good spot for mixing and proper BL flow...but if things break wrong it taints.

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EC ensembles at 850 have a 24C contour tickling Logan11's fanny. Wow.

Thursday is gonna be nasty if dews are modeled that impressive. Sometimes they'll be a bit lower if we are so hot, or more of a wsw wind, but wow.

How high are dews?

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Peoria, IL: 97F 79F HI 116F

Checked Decatur on Wunderground and saw 101/85, HI 135. gaccckkk!!

But that was from an amateur observer; the airport was 95/79 HI 112, more like Peoria, but still bad enough. When I was out there (DEC) last year it was 93/77 and walking outside was an instant saltwater swim. (Wicked good TS that evening, though.)

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