hawkeye_wx Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 NWS lowered us to low 80s today, but that'll be too low. We just hit 83 and with full sun mid to upper 80s seems likely. Our dewpoint is still 60, but just south of the warm front in southeast Iowa the dewpoint is in the low to mid 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Think the warm front just passed here. Temp jumped 3 degrees in a short time to 89. Dew now up to 65. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Rain rain rain rain... crap all day, but we need it.... God I'm glad i'm not camping. Lot of people go out onto the Mississippi and camp on sandbars...ugly ugly weather for that. No more drought if this keeps up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Touched a whopping 67F so far today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Just got a new push of marine air, was 66°, now 62°. Tried to do some yard work, but too damp and muddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Looks like the rain isn't going to end...some more looking to move in from the west. The forecast has been nothing less then horrendous the last 48hrs... NWS had 30% chance of rain today even this morning when I checked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 87/58 here with partial sunshine. Not too bad a start for the holiday weekend. But we do need rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Last storm that popped through dropped .61 inches of rain.... Pretty good little downpour with it...lot of lightning with these cells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 91/66 now. Grass is brown around these parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Cyclone- Think I would rather be under the rain and clouds. I need a minivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 pretty cool seeing the boundaries on radar, both the northward pushing sfc warm front (also marked well by the cu) and the slowly moving lake breeze oriented WNW-ESE across the area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I'm hoping to see some rain tonight. Grass definitely needs a watering here. Scattered severe chances are looking better for Monday evening, but actual rainfall may be very hit and miss yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 pretty cool seeing the boundaries on radar, both the northward pushing sfc warm front (also marked well by the cu) and the slowly moving lake breeze oriented WNW-ESE across the area Second lake breeze boundary just pushed through PWK and is now visible too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 What a goofy day... it's actually cooling off! Down to 61° with a solid 15mph wind from the NE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I'm waiting for elevated convection to develop more over southern WI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Still raining... still no minivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 ORD sure cooled off in one hour from 85° to 72°! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Surface warm front may be trying to do something. Small cell trying to go up west of Kankakee in IL. Also out west of Iowa Falls IA. EDIT: Cell west of Iowa Falls already pushing 50kft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Surface warm front may be trying to do something. Small cell trying to go up west of Kankakee in IL. Also out west of Iowa Falls IA. EDIT: Cell west of Iowa Falls already pushing 50kft. Maybe this model is onto something then... http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/mpyle/spcprod/12/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 ORD sure cooled off in one hour from 85° to 72°! Now down to 67 at ORD! It is absolutely killer out there Definitely not ready for the mega-torch tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Wow, that lake breeze pushed 60s all the way into Naperville! That had some power behind it. At 58.7° here. Cooling the house as much as I can this evening, before I shut it up early in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Back door front lake front surprisingly just blew threw here. Definitely wasn't expecting that. Temp has crashed back to 77 with gusty northeast winds. Dew also dropped back to 61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Impressive, that back door front has cleared Kankakee and La Salle also. The NE winds here are gusty. The cool dense air wins out for now! Edit: Interesting disco from LOT- 000 FXUS63 KLOT 270054 AFDLOT AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 754 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 .MESOSCALE DISCUSSION... 739 PM CDT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS STILL A POSSIBILITY...BUT SLOWLY BECOMING LESS LIKELY THIS EVENING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR LATEST OBSERVATIONS AND TRENDS WITH OVERALL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. MODEL GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO OFFER LITTLE IF ANY HELP...SO WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN THE OBSERVATIONAL WORLD. LATEST THINKING CONTINUES FROM EARLIER THINKING...THAT THE BEST CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA THIS EVENING WITH CURRENT COMPLEX ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BEFORE CHANCES SHIFT NORTH AFTER THE MIDNIGHT TIME FRAME. SO HAVE NOT ADJUSTED FORECAST AT THIS TIME...BUT WAS DEBATING BRINGING SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA. SOME HIGH RES MODEL DATA CONTINUES TO SHOW AN MCS DEVELOPING WEST OF OUR CWA THIS EVENING AND THEN TRACKING EAST SOUTHEAST WITH TIME. WITH 14 DEGREE AIR AT 700MB PER LATEST RUC ANALYSIS AND LATEST 00Z DVN SOUNDING SHOWING A DECENT CAP IN PLACE...I AM FINDING IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL OCCUR. ALTHOUGH...THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER FACTORS WHICH ARE LEADING ME TO BELIEVE THIS POSSIBILITY MIGHT NOT BE TOO FAR FETCHED. AS THE EFFECTIVE WARM FRONT HAS SHIFTED FURTHER SOUTH WITH OUTFLOW/LAKE BREEZE INTERACTION...COULD FOR SEE CURRENT MID LEVEL IMPULSE TRAVERSING THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND INTERACT WITH SURFACE TROUGH AND BOUNDARY TO HELP INITIATE CONVECTION. THEN WITH A DECOUPLING BOUNDARY LAYER...AN INCREASING LLJ COULD HELP FOCUS ANY CONVECTION INTO SOME TYPE OF COMPLEX. ALTHOUGH...IT CURRENTLY APPEARS AS IF THE WARMER AIR ALOFT IS WINNING. SO...WILL ONCE AGAIN LEAVE FORECAST AS IS BUT CONTINUE TO MONITOR LATEST TRENDS AND UPDATES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Looks like no rain for me tonight. As usual, WI is hogging all the LLJ action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Coolish, yet stormy day in Wisconsin today. Got back from Door County early this evening, and ran into some moderate to heavy downpours along the way; dodged the thunder and lightning, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Starting to look more and more like this area might get skipped over on the Monday setup. Storms may fire just east again based on much of the latest guidance. May escape this whole setup again without any rain. Looking more and more like 2005 everyday. Everything that summer either dried up before it got here or skipped over us and hammered Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted May 27, 2012 Author Share Posted May 27, 2012 Lake breeze boundary is quickly washing out and the effective warm front is pushing back north. IKK has jumped from 74 to 80 in 20min. Farther north temps are slowly rising as NE winds turn E/SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 High 66°, Low 54° today with 0.52" of rain. Temp has come up 1° tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Wow. Sounding is for my area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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