CheeselandSkies Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Yeah this humidity with relatively scant precip is going to be brutal. Somebody please wring the atmosphere out like a g*****n sponge. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Raining pretty good here today. Amazing how the IN/MI state line is basically the mark between drought and no drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 The showers are just slowly inching north... agonizing. All the stronger updrafts with lightning are to the northeast where the sun came out. Hard to get lighting with clouds all day here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 not our year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 9 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: not our year The lake breeze is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Year-to-date, 2021 has taken over as the 2nd driest on record for Chicago. Lowest precip totals from 1/1 through 6/8: 1934: 4.64" 2021: 6.96" 1989: 7.38" 1992: 7.56" 1928: 8.08" 1968: 8.09" 1895: 8.13" 1994: 8.21" 1988: 8.59" 1925: 8.68" Year-to-date, ORD is just under 45% of average precip (deficits are actually worse just north of there). It is impressive to have that kind of percentage of average precip over a time span of 5+ months. Much easier to pull off if it's just a couple months. Obviously a lot of this dry stretch has occurred in cooler months of the year, which has mitigated the overall impacts so far. But we are in June now and this could really become a bigger problem if it keeps up. There's a cooldown lurking in the extended, but it's still a June sun angle and summer evaporation rates are much greater than other times of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 euro is particularly grim even by recent standards, dusty ass western state stuff 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Starting to see some brown grass in sun exposed areas. Pretty minor overall at this point though I imagine it may be more noticeable up in the city/north where the deficits are larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Teensy little shower right over my apartment building. First actual rain I've seen this week, but it won't amount to more than like .001 inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 This time last year the COVID thread dominated the sub, this year it appears the drought thread will dominate lol. Next year it will probably be a UFO thread. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: This time last year the COVID thread dominated the sub, this year it appears the drought thread will dominate lol. Next year it will probably be a UFO thread. I'm banking on 45 straight days of severe weather from May 15-June 30. That would make up for this year 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Starting to see some brown grass in sun exposed areas. Pretty minor overall at this point though I imagine it may be more noticeable up in the city/north where the deficits are larger.Anything mowed outside of shaded/irrigated areas is pretty well browned out at this point. Looks like an August dry spell at minimum. Corn and beans are pitiful - furling up and looking thin. The fields are still green overall but not a deep green and instead starting to get a bit of a yellowish tint.Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 5 hours ago, Hoosier said: Starting to see some brown grass in sun exposed areas. Pretty minor overall at this point though I imagine it may be more noticeable up in the city/north where the deficits are larger. Completely browned out up here. I mowed the other days and needed a respirator between the dust and the cottonwood seeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 27 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Completely browned out up here. I mowed the other days and needed a respirator between the dust and the cottonwood seeds At least the mask stockpile will be good for something until the next pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaryWarren Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 In 2022. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Rumor has it this would bring an end to the drought for some. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Congrats indy^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Don't like the way that D2 is becoming more widespread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Starting to notice patches of grass turning brown here, as well. We got about a month this spring where everything was nice and green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said: Starting to notice patches of grass turning brown here, as well. We got about a month this spring where everything was nice and green. Surprise surprise, your 8/21/18 redux has disappeared from the GFS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Katy bar the door if there isn't sig relief by the end of June. Just a hunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaryWarren Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Noticing the browning of the grass outside my south-facing office window here in MN. I expect to see this spontaneously burst into flames by the end of the month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 euro is way bad, sw mega drought feels ready to rip across much of the center of the country 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 I have had a traditional standard rain gauge since 2000. I have recorded precip religiously, and of course the old fashioned gauge avoids any errors like with asos in snow and whatnot. This is the driest start to the year I have recorded yet. Jan- 1.10" (6.0" snow) Feb- 1.59" (22.7" snow) Mar- 2.08" (T snow) Apr- 2.18" (4.5" snow) May- 1.85" Jun- 0.77" thru 6/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Looks like a picked a wrong year to plant new trees lol. Hope they like well water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Nice avatar 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 0z almost shutout precip wise through 240 in june...about to get grim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 0z almost shutout precip wise through 240 in june...about to get grimnaso sure about that. got a hunch we’re gonna flip before long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 24 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: naso sure about that. got a hunch we’re gonna flip before long. Flip to what? Raining more than it has in the past 2 weeks? I can buy that. Getting consistently wetter than average weather to erase/nearly erase the deficits? I don't see that anytime soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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