dmc76 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 A MUCH LARGER WAVE IS FORECAST TO DIVE DOWN INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...THEN SLOWLY LIFT THROUGH NORTHEAST CANADA (GFS) OR TO THE ATLANTIC COAST ON SATURDAY (EURO). THIS SHOULD PROVIDE A BETTER CHANCE FOR RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH UNSEASONABLY COOL TEMPERATURES (HIGHS IN THE 70S!). Love it! Time for this heat to go bye bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Temperature forecast busted here today. High 85°. Onshore flow was too strong, then clouds quickly rolled in at 3pm. Dewpoints are performing nicely though - mid 70s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Will be interesting to see how cool it gets here on Monday morning. Looks like a good radiational cooling setup though maybe less than ideal. Would not be surprised to see low 50s and maybe even some pockets of upper 40s in the typical cooler spots around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 0.11" here this afternoon. Storms were more noise than anything else. Enough rain to keep the garden and grass happy for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Picked up 0.46" of rain with the MCS. Yearly rainfall deficit will be back up to where it was before the rain in 3 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Temperatures and heights crashing aloft, decent FROPA. Sub-freezing air at 700 hPa is crossing the border in MN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 MLI only got 0.25" there today, while DVN cashed in at 2.45". Saw there was a delayed report of a 80mph wind gust north of here up near Fulton (east of Clinton). Temps here dropped from near 90 to 68 in less than a half hour. Have since warmed back into the mid 70s once the sun came back out. Looks like quiet weather for awhile now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 High temp occurred this evening...77F ... Tonite shows 55F. So sick of the heat and humidity, so today was great. Looking forward to prolonged below normal temps, should that ever happen. Took a window AC unit out today...dropped it about 3ft on the concrete. Plugged it back in and it still works. Guess this Chinese junks does hold up. Now has a nice dent in one side... I had a few choice words when that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fickle Heights Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Dang, not a drop of rain at my place (~20 miles SE of LAF). Last significant rain fell July 18... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Next weekend looks crazy. Probably see widespread 40Fs (at nite)...maybe some 60Fs for highs? Are we seeing a pattern change here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Next weekend looks crazy. Probably see widespread 40Fs (at nite)...maybe some 60Fs for highs? Are we seeing a pattern change here? That would be Awesome! If those kinds of highs come true, it's safe to say the pattern will have changed. Hopefully rain chances will increase if something is changing. Edit: With that kind of cool air flowing over the warm lakes, lake effect rain might be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickSumner Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Next weekend looks crazy. Probably see widespread 40Fs (at nite)...maybe some 60Fs for highs? Are we seeing a pattern change here? That's one potent looking low as well. Cool weather could come with a price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Forgot to post these earlier. Some crappy cell phone shots out the window, so quality sucks. The rain came down so fast that the streets went completely under water. It was kind of weird seeing so much standing water around contrast with the burnt up grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Forgot to post these earlier. Some crappy cell phone shots out the window, so quality sucks. The rain came down so fast that the streets went completely under water. It was kind of weird seeing so much standing water around contrast with the burnt up grass. That is some decent good flooding there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 That is some decent good flooding there. What's kind of funny in the 2nd pic you can see tall weeds sticking up high above the water on the corner lot where the fire hydrant is. They hadn't mowed in well over a month and other than a few tall weeds that spiked up the rest of the lawn was completely fried. Should really green up around here in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Next weekend looks crazy. Probably see widespread 40Fs (at nite)...maybe some 60Fs for highs? Are we seeing a pattern change here? Nah..just the models being models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 What's kind of funny in the 2nd pic you can see tall weeds sticking up high above the water on the corner lot where the fire hydrant is. They hadn't mowed in well over a month and other than a few tall weeds that spiked up the rest of the lawn was completely fried. Should really green up around here in the next few days. Yeah same thing happened here, first rain we got sprouted weeds even though the yard looked like it could have been lit with a match. The second bout of rains greened things back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Nah..just the models being models. Actually this time I am giving this one some credence, the ridge to the West retrogrades some and allows for the troughing to move in, though I do think this is a few degrees cooler than what will verify. I could see the region as a whole having a day in the upper 70s for highs before rebounding into the low 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoar_Frost Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Storms rolled through my area and yielded a couple of gusts to around 55 MPH. Rain fell in sheets for a time, totalling 0.62". The power was out for four hours and a half here, but my understanding was that the storms did not directly cause the outage. The high here today (well, yesterday) was 95, the 43rd day this year AOA 90 and the fourth in a row. It may very well have been the last 90-degree-or-higher temperature that I will get to record and experience at home this summer since I leave Illinois for Pennsylvania for grad school on Thursday. (It also may have been the last rain.) But, since I want to see this through, I have identified a WeatherBug station at Geneva Community High School, only a couple of blocks from my current location, whose thermometer reads the same as or perhaps a degree different sometimes from my thermometer. So, using that, I'll keep you all abreast of whether the tally extends beyond 43. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Had a low of 65, right now 69/61, it feels much better outside than yesterday. Only picked up 0.09" form the storms yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 74°/60° right now, really nice day for early August! Mid 50s forecast tonight - gonna feel cold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Point has us down to 52 tonight. Gonna feel awfully chilly compared to recent nights. Definitely looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 IND calling for 54 here on Monday morning. If it happens it would be the coolest temp since June 27. Wonder what if any impact the recent rain will have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 A few isolated upper 40s showing up here and there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Forecast is 53 °F for Madison. Only 71 °F as of 11 am and forecast to hit 77 °F. Current 850 temp suggests highs in the lower 80s, so we need CAA to kick up a bit to stay in the 70s. Spending most of the day outside regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 St. Louis WRF shows some patches of upper 40s too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Tonight's forecast looks awesome! Been near steady at 77° here through the noon hour. Dewpoint down to 52°. Given the time of year and the cooler week ahead Lake Michigan may be hitting it's peak overall temperature right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 MKX's WRF shows upper 40s breaking out in the valleys by midnight. Lake Mendota (my backyard) and Monona really stand out with temps in the low 60s at the same time. Mid 50s up the hill on the isthmus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 DVN now mentioning potential 40 degree readings as well in the new AFD... ...THIS WILL RESULT IN MINS MOST TO ALL THE AREA TO BE 2 TO LOCALLY ~5 DEGREES BELOW COLDEST GUIDANCE. WOULDN/T BE SURPRISED TO SEE FAVORED LOCATIONS IN WAPSIPINICON AND ROCK RIVER VALLEYS TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 40S... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Sparta will be in the 40Fs.. Last time I had wx like this had to be early June... Could take about 8 weeks of wx like this...minus the ragweed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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