frostfern Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Funny how it didn't even rain enough to get the pavement completely wet here, yet 3 miles away it rains an inch in an hour. Pin-prick-sized stationary lake-breeze shower lasted 40 minutes. Surprised there was no thunder. There's a lot of moisture in the air, but it only comes out in one small random location. Lots of places are very very brown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Hoosier said: Ridge was shunted, so some southward displacement of the heat on this run compared to 00z. Good. Maybe there will be a chance of ridge-riding complexes turning right / driving SE into the heat. I'm so tired of this hot dry pattern with the jet up in Canada and organized convection confined to the northern border. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Picked up 0.07" here late this afternoon from some developing storms. Eventually it went severe warned to the south. Drove through it on the way home. Very heavy rain and strong winds. Was quite refreshing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Apparently there was another landspout tornado earlier today about 20 miles northeast of here near Sterling. 2nd one this week. What a strange year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduewx80 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 boundarypalooza out there ahead of our mcv. pretty good evidence the lake breeze will kick some off this afternoon before the main show later in the day, too. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Just woke up to our first severe thunderstorm warning of the year to the unmistakable sound of hail hitting the roof. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Cedar Rapids finally hit 90º (officially) yesterday for the first time this month. I hope we can cash in on the MCV moving across Iowa this afternoon. This might be our last decent rain chance for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Nice isolated storm inland from Ludington. I cloud see the tower blossoming up through the haze from here. I thought it was much closer. It seems like storms can pop up closer to the lake there because there's significant hills. Southern Lake Michigan is surrounded by flat so it's hard for anything to pop up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 The heaviest cells bypassed me, but I still managed to get some solid training and finish with 1.52" of rain. Once again, however, there was very little, very quiet thunder. This will go down as the year without lightning/thunder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I think I count four different boundaries intersecting a little west of Milwaukee. Hard to say what the convection to the west will look like as it gets toward the lake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 So much rain until a week or two ago and the grass is already starting to get brown. Amazing how little time it takes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 You should plant climo appropriate flora 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 So much lightning with these storms. Gonna get a hefty rain total as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Have undercut trashvection coming this way. Looks like we'll be lucky to get 1/3-1/2". Heaviest will miss just south. EDIT: Looking better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Feels like a ton of humidity just mixed out on real gusty south winds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: Feels like a ton of humidity just mixed out on real gusty south winds What was your high today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Idk was in the lab in elk grove till 4, felt like hottest in a while until recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Best rain in a month. Picked up 1.15" with some 30mph gusts and quite a bit of thunder. Classic summer non-severe thunderstorm. I'm pretty sure I heard the lawn singing a little while ago. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Gonna be very close to our normal July rain total already with rain only falling on 2 days this month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Off topic, but geez! Some of the flooding vid's out of China are sick stuff! Talk about "biblical", and there's a major dam that's shifting and bowing. Hate to see the results if that fails. What we had in the middle of the Mitt was horrible enough. I know it's a different culture and all, but that one video was just nuts. An open air kitchen/diner with the cook waste deep in flowing (nasty brown) river water while frying what looked like fish on a commercial frying grill barely above the nasty water and 2 customers calmly sitting on their stools waiting for their dinner. OMG how disgusting! Now all those multi-story building collapses as entire down-towns are getting washed away. I've watched wx vid's for decades and this is some of the craziest I can remember ever seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Well it finally rained good IMBY. 0.8” at least with a string of training cells. Still pretty hit and miss though. Hope the bigger MCS to the west makes it here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 5 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said: The heaviest cells bypassed me, but I still managed to get some solid training and finish with 1.52" of rain. Once again, however, there was very little, very quiet thunder. This will go down as the year without lightning/thunder. There was lots of thunder here, but it was almost all soft rumbles from the middle part of the cloud. It don’t know what it takes to create a lot of CGs. I kept watching the rain shafts for big strikes but they never came. Just flashes and soft peals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Slowest moving MCS ever over Lake Michigan. The lake doesn’t need anymore water. Such a tease. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 med range looks good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 It's going to be a race against time today. Starting off warm with a temp of 77*F, clear skies and 925mb temps of 25*C, but the clouds and convection are steadily moving NE. Most models still have us tagging 90*F though, which would make it the 9th consecutive day for Detroit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Have a streak of 8 days AOA 90 here and MLI, but that ends today. Looks like no more 90s until Mon or Tue. Euro has backed off on the big heat for the DVN cwa compared to previous runs for next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluoronium Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Had some nice storms yesterday, nothing crazy but it brought some desperately needed rain (and lightning ) Received about 3/4" of rain which was more than the entire month of June here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, fluoronium said: Had some nice storms yesterday, nothing crazy but it brought some desperately needed rain (and lightning ) Received about 3/4" of rain which was more than the entire month of June here. Where are you located? I took Champaign for instance and they received over 7" in June. Gradient is pretty stark clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluoronium Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I'm near Goodfield which is about halfway between Bloomington and Peoria. We got missed by pretty much everything last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Yesterday in Minneapolis our temperature departure was only +3 with low 60 dews. Felt autumnal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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