Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Huge thunder. Sounded like a bomb went off. Love those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 ILX, ILN, PIT, BUF all had 500 mb heights of 599 dm on the 00z RAOBs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 4 hours ago, Hoosier said: Lawns look a little browner compared to a couple days ago. There were decent rains a while back but the past week has been somewhat dry around here. Outside of whatever happens in the next day or so, the pattern coming up doesn't look very wet for a while. Cue Chicagowx to accuse me of banging the drought drum. ^I'm gonna have to remember to type this paragraph the next time I want some nice downpours lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Lame... heat and no storms yet again.. though it can rain any other time this spring and young summer. Bring on Cold and dry over this change of underwear every 3 hr horse ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 2 hours ago, wisconsinwx said: I'd say a pretty nice Fourth of July, and interesting weather. Went down to Summerfest right along Lake Michigan where it was a much more manageable 80F or so with still plenty of humidity but a comfortable breeze. Then as I was returning, the skies opened up and a thunderstorm dropped around an inch of rain through parts of the Milwaukee Metro. One of the more impressive thunderstorms this season, just a ton of thunder and lightning. Not so good for the fireworks displays around here, I'll bet most of them will be postponed. Went on here. Probably cleared out in the nick of time for most all also. 1 hour ago, Hoosier said: You mean the town/city fireworks? That's why they should be scheduled for the 3rd (so that the 4th can be the backup day). Boooooo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Hoosier said: You mean the town/city fireworks? That's why they should be scheduled for the 3rd (so that the 4th can be the backup day). The big Milwaukee fireworks display is always on the 3rd, but I meant a lot of the north and west burbs fireworks. Despite grass being really wet and fog having rolled in it appears, one of Milwaukee's parks fireworks displays went on as scheduled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Hoosier said: Huge thunder. Sounded like a bomb went off. Love those. Yep, similar here with some of the thunder earlier. Not many in this subforum have been dry this warm season, but it sounds like your neck of the woods has been one of the exceptions, so good to hear you're getting a decent soaker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 8 minutes ago, wisconsinwx said: Yep, similar here with some of the thunder earlier. Not many in this subforum have been dry this warm season, but it sounds like your neck of the woods has been one of the exceptions, so good to hear you're getting a decent soaker! You hogged all of the thunder again until a last second blowup over me. dropped a nice quick down pour on a chimney of charcoal I had fired up to finish off a nice sear on some ribeye's. You steak lovers need to check this out and follow the directions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Just now, UMB WX said: You hogged all of the thunder until a last second blowup over me. dropped a nice quick down pour on a chimney of charcoal I had fired up to finish off a nice sear on some ribeye's. You steak lovers need to check this crack out and follow the directions. Yeah, I'm sorry. Lately the northern and western part of the metro have been doing well with the convective events. This time of year in particular they tend to be very hit and miss, of the popup variety like this one with the low shear, high cape environment. Here's to some better luck for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, wisconsinwx said: Yeah, I'm sorry. Lately the northern and western part of the metro have been doing well with the convective events. This time of year in particular they tend to be very hit and miss, of the popup variety like this one with the low shear, high cape environment. Here's to some better luck for you Keep your luck bish I'm banking for a chance of winter jackpots. Bring back Geo's.. Since he's been gone.. Winter snow has been MIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 On 7/3/2018 at 10:03 PM, Chinook said: Toledo overachieved with 91 (sub-hourly max) with dew points of 73 in the afternoon. The streak is at 5 days of 90 temperatures and 5 days of 70 dew points. Toledo had high 95, low 72, today as a July 4th scorcher. This makes 6 days of 90 degrees, 6 days of 70+ dew points. I would hate the dew points if I were there. Tomorrow, it seems that upper 80's will be the high, and heavy rain is possible, or maybe even likely near Toledo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Unfortunately nature's fireworks got 2 people PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 1125 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2018 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0800 PM LIGHTNING SHERIDAN 41.53N 88.69W 07/04/2018 LA SALLE IL BROADCAST MEDIA REPORT OF 2 PEOPLE CRITICALLY INJURED FROM A LIGHTNING STRIKE PRIOR TO THE FIREWORKS IN SHERIDAN. TIME NOT YET KNOWN AND IS APPROXIMATE. && $$ KDONOFRI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 93 at ORD and 92 MDW on the 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 One of the warmest max and min temps on record for the 4th of July for Chicago this year... Warmest 4th of July High Temps: 102 - 2012 102 - 1911 98 - 1949 96 - 1990 96 - 1977 95 - 1921 95 - 1919 95 - 1901 94 - 2003 94 - 1971 94 - 1969 94 - 1913 94 - 189793 - 2018 93 - 1999 Warmest 4th of July Low Temps: 80 - 1921 79 - 2012 79 - 1999 78 - 1911 78 - 1897 77 - 1990 77 - 191376 - 2018 75 - 1901 75 - 1900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 9 hours ago, Hoosier said: ILX, ILN, PIT, BUF all had 500 mb heights of 599 dm on the 00z RAOBs. The 89'd of 500mb heights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nokywx Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Depending on how the storms develop this afternoon, this could be the hottest day yet. 88/75/98 @ CVG at 10am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 84/78/95 per the 9AM obs at CMI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 11 hours ago, Hoosier said: Unfortunately nature's fireworks got 2 people PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 1125 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2018 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0800 PM LIGHTNING SHERIDAN 41.53N 88.69W 07/04/2018 LA SALLE IL BROADCAST MEDIA REPORT OF 2 PEOPLE CRITICALLY INJURED FROM A LIGHTNING STRIKE PRIOR TO THE FIREWORKS IN SHERIDAN. TIME NOT YET KNOWN AND IS APPROXIMATE. && $$ KDONOFRI Apparently there was another person struck... in the Loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Already reached 90 at ORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 To me there hasn’t been much relief any of these days. Yesterday and today in particular has felt just as brutal as the peak of the wave a couple of days ago . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoalCityWxMan Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 7 minutes ago, King James said: To me there hasn’t been much relief any of these days. Yesterday and today in particular has felt just as brutal as the peak of the wave a couple of days ago . Agreed. Feels the same. Tomorrow will feel like winter though with low 50’s for dews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 19 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Already reached 90 at ORD. 92 so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 15 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: 92 so far. Models were progging a hair under 20C at 850 mb, so if that's right, might not warm much more... maybe 1-2 degrees tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Agreed. Feels the same. Tomorrow will feel like winter though with low 50’s for dews 87/79 currently out in the cornfields of Kankakee. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoalCityWxMan Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 31 minutes ago, King James said: 87/79 currently out in the cornfields of Kankakee. . 90/83 in the cornfields of southern Grundy, trying to enjoy the constant rumble of the storms to my south outside is even terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Had someone come into my work who said it's a mess out there... lots of street flooding and they said they almost got stranded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 My streak of no storms for 2018 might be coming to an end soon, however the blob to my north is virtually not moving at all so for now just rumbles (fairly decent ones) of thunder. The convection to my west is not doing so well and is pulsing downwards. Great clouds today and the heat feels extra good but torrid. I had a pop-up rainshower over me out of nowhere and that smell...incredible! Still extremely hot during it and sunny too. Full sun now, convection to my west dying off as it heads over me, and the main stuff to my north is sliding a bit to the east so maybe I'll miss this too . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 89’d again today. Vermilion county has been getting hammered with heavy rain this afternoon over 3” has fallen with more storms on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 19th 90+ day at MLI today, as they hit 92. Saw lots of distant thunderheads again today, but received zero precip. Still don't need it too badly, but the grass is starting to show signs of drying out a bit. The next wave of heat may have a little more potential, as this general area has dried out some since the last heat spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 92 ORD and 95 MDW today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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