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July 2016 General Discussion


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next MCS is probably in its beginning stages east of the twin cities. should ride the old outflow se/sse this evening. the effective front may not make it back north of chicago until the weekend. 

given how high dews already are, how they will tend to pool along the warm side of the outflow boundary, and the wetness of the past few weeks over the corn belt, think it's possible we see some legit mid-80s dews show up this evening.

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Somebody needs to look into what's been going on with dewpoints in Gary.  Now 91/84 there.



GYY is garbage because the obs are called in by the tower and they basically guess at what's been occurring over the past hour. Not sure how much the AWOS is used. It's why their wind obs are always junk. I haven't been paying close enough attention, but see if the dew points have still been unrealistically high when the 20 minute obs come in while the airport is closed.
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6 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

 


GYY is garbage because the obs are called in by the tower and they basically guess at what's been occurring over the past hour. Not sure how much the AWOS is used. It's why their wind obs are always junk. I haven't been paying close enough attention, but see if the dew points have still been unrealistically high when the 20 minute obs come in while the airport is closed.

 

 

Didn't know that.  Might as well just rely on some of the personal weather stations in the area...can't be much worse. 

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Didn't know that.  Might as well just rely on some of the personal weather stations in the area...can't be much worse. 



It's unfortunate because it's out of our hands really. We've sent emails with collections of wind obs to the central region of the NWS to hopefully persuade a change if they discuss it with the FAA but it hasn't happened yet. In this case it's possible there's some contribution from the AWOS being out of calibration with the dewpoints but it's hard to tell.
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