Jonger Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 43 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: It hasn't been the hottest of summers or filled with severe, but the high humidity (nope) and storms on the reg (yup) has been nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Just looking at my station data from overnight, had 2"/hr rates for nearly an hour. Prolific rain producers , sump pump working for the first time in awhile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 FINALLY Jack potted this summer.. probably guessing only the 2nd or third time the airport has received over a half inch of rain this summer. Let the grass cutting resume.. Cut it for the first time last evening in a month. Needless to say I won't be buying a new snowblower like we did a lawnmower that's been used less than a handful of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Storms with very heavy downpours have been scattered around the area for three days, but they all managed to avoid me. Ames got 3.5" in one hour yesterday, so they really dumped in spots. We don't need any rain, though. Everything is quite green. I'm still mowing the lawn like it's spring. My August rainfall total is 7.16". The dewpoint has been back in the mid 70s the last couple days. I'm looking forward to the cool-down coming up tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Using the 4km NAM's high of 77*F and low of 66*F for tomorrow, Detroit is still a lock for the hottest Summer on record. It's also a lock for the 2nd warmest Agust on record, surpassed only by August 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 After watching all the rain stay to the northwest of us for the past couple of days, it finally got here this evening. 1.36 in my tippy bucket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitown Storm Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 The Twin Cities is on pace for the all-time wettest year (1911) since record keeping started. We would finish only 4" below normal for 2016 if we didn't get anymore precip the rest of the year. Looks like we're done with rain for August, but September looks like it will start pretty wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 0.24" rain today brings us to 7.62" for Aug, and over 20" for met summer. No rain in the forecast now till at least Sunday. Think I'm gonna have to jump on the Hoosier drought train next summer if it in fact leaves the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 5 hours ago, cyclone77 said: 0.24" rain today brings us to 7.62" for Aug, and over 20" for met summer. No rain in the forecast now till at least Sunday. Think I'm gonna have to jump on the Hoosier drought train next summer if it in fact leaves the station. Back-to-back summers with 20"+ of rainfall here. I'm on board the Hoosier super drought train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 10 hours ago, Powerball said: Using the 4km NAM's high of 77*F and low of 66*F for tomorrow, Detroit is still a lock for the hottest Summer on record. It's also a lock for the 2nd warmest Agust on record, surpassed only by August 1995. CLE will end up beating the previous hottest summer on record by almost a half degree. Tonight's midnight temperature will determine if CLE has the hottest August on record. There's been a tendency for warm overnight lows to get erased at 11:59pm EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 10 hours ago, cyclone77 said: 0.24" rain today brings us to 7.62" for Aug, and over 20" for met summer. No rain in the forecast now till at least Sunday. Think I'm gonna have to jump on the Hoosier drought train next summer if it in fact leaves the station. 5 hours ago, Chicago WX said: Back-to-back summers with 20"+ of rainfall here. I'm on board the Hoosier super drought train. Let's get a real Nina going next year and roll the dice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 7 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Let's get a real Nina going next year and roll the dice. Super drought checking in. It's no fun after a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 22 hours ago, Jonger said: The story of summer. Mediocre high temps, sky high low temps. In the 59 days since 7/4/16, ORD has only had 8 days with below-normal low temps...and of those 8 days, 6 of them only had departures ranging from -1 to -4. It's just more evidence of how humid this summer has been. Usually, we'll get a 2-4 day respite from the humidity (DPs under 60) every couple of weeks...but not so this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 23 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: In the 59 days since 7/4/16, ORD has only had 8 days with below-normal low temps...and of those 8 days, 6 of them only had departures ranging from -1 to -4. It's just more evidence of how humid this summer has been. Usually, we'll get a 2-4 day respite from the humidity (DPs under 60) every couple of weeks...but not so this summer. Would take some research but it would be interesting to see how this summer stacks up with others as far as number of 70+ degree dewpoint days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 temperature ranks from the East. This scorching summer was warmest in Cleveland, Detroit (?) and some areas of the East Coast. Many areas were #1, #2, or #3. Includes data from June 1 to Aug 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1046 AM CDT THU SEP 1 2016 /1146 AM EDT THU SEP 1 2016/ ...A LOOK BACK AT THE CLIMATE FOR METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER (JUNE, JULY, AUGUST) 2016 FOR CHICAGO AND ROCKFORD... AT CHICAGO, THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE SUMMER SEASON WAS 83.5 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE THE 1981 TO 2010 AVERAGE. THE AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE WAS 65.0 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE SEASON WAS 74.3 DEGREES, WHICH IS 2.5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. A TOTAL OF 13.34 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED DURING THIS PAST SUMMER, WHICH IS 1.29 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. RECORDS ESTABLISHED OR TIED DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS: JUNE: RECORD DAILY PRECIPITATION OF 1.31 INCHES ON THE 22ND. JULY: NONE. AUGUST: NONE. AT ROCKFORD, THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 83.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.1 DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL. THE AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE WAS 63.6 DEGREES, WHICH IS 2.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE SEASON WAS 73.7 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. A TOTAL OF 14.36 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED DURING THIS PAST SUMMER, WHICH WAS 1.17 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. RECORDS ESTABLISHED OR TIED DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS: JUNE: NONE. JULY: NO DAILY RECORDS. 7TH WETTEST JULY ON RECORD WITH 7.87 INCHES. AUGUST: NONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 On 8/31/2016 at 1:26 PM, Chinook said: temperature ranks from the East. This scorching summer was warmest in Cleveland, Detroit (?) and some areas of the East Coast. Many areas were #1, #2, or #3. Includes data from June 1 to Aug 30. Officially, Detroit's average was 74.9*F, edging out 2012 with an average of 74.8*F. Solid B+ Summer (with the only complaint being the lack of severe weather locally). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 The seasonal extremes have been pretty impressive lately for Detroit. We had our worst (read: snowiest) winter on record sandwiched, within the span of a few years, between our two warmest Summers on record. Never mind the other snowy Winters and hot Summers we've had within the past 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 August 2016 finished as the warmest August on record in Toronto (YYZ). By a good margin too. By average hourly temp: 1. 2016 (24.23C) 2. 2001 (23.11C) 3. 1959 (23.09C) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 5th warmest summer in Lansing lines up with what I show locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 On 9/1/2016 at 10:58 PM, Powerball said: The seasonal extremes have been pretty impressive lately for Detroit. We had our worst (read: snowiest) winter on record sandwiched, within the span of a few years, between our two warmest Summers on record. Never mind the other snowy Winters and hot Summers we've had within the past 10 years. DTX called this summer "remarkable...because it was so unremarkable" on their facebook page. This summer pales in comparison to so many other past summers for their torrid heatwaves and hot stretches....it was just so PERSISTENTLY warm and lacked any significant cool downs, a huge contrast to the last 3 summers. From a 90-degree perspective, we did finish with 21 days, well above the normal of 12 (and the first above normal summer since 2012), however 16 years had more 90F days and another 4 years were a match with 21. And mind you, this is DTW, where several days they eeked out a 90F when most everyone else (save YIP) was in the 80s. As a whole they tended to run quite high on max temps much of the summer. DET only had 16 days of 90F+....for comparison, Detroit City has had 31 years with more 90F days than 2016, and another 3 were a match with 16. It was the days on end in the mid and upper 80s that cemented this as warmest summer. Remarkable...because it was so unremarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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