Brian D Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Typical Spring wet wx on tap Tues-Wed. Winds expected to be up to 40-50 mph along the shore. Then cool wx for a few days before the next round. Backside snow showers across N MN also possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainsucks Posted April 14 Author Share Posted April 14 would’ve been close to the record high at ORD today if it weren’t for the lake breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Beautiful day here with temps running in the mid-upper 60's. Low humidity has fire danger up a little with some gusty winds. Yesterday saw very warm temps as well in the mid-upper 60's. Take it while you can. April loves to swing hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 First 80 degree day today. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 29 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: First 80 degree day today. Same here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I should finally get my first thunderstorm of the year Tuesday. All of our rain so far this season has been light to moderate cold rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Was in MO, OK, and TX all last week. Looks like mid summer down in TX. Up here it's greening up pretty nicely now. Several trees are starting to leaf out. Looking forward to some boomers Tue evening 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Made it to 56 here today with light winds, full sun...felt really nice. Opened the windows for some fresh air. Hopefully done with the white stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 P sure everyone in Chicago was out today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 3 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Was in MO, OK, and TX all last week. Looks like mid summer down in TX. Up here it's greening up pretty nicely now. Several trees are starting to leaf out. Looking forward to some boomers Tue evening We're at about 95% leaf out here in DFW at least. Some of the trees still have that early season yellow tint to them, and the pine trees (the ones that lose their leaves) still aren't in full bloom. Once you get up to Texoma (outside of the Urban Heat Island), I'd say it's more like 75-80% leaf out. I imagine the trees definitely have a mid-summer look down in Austin / San Antonio / Houston though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Cedar Rapids made it to 86º today, pretty toasty. Des Moines hit 88º. The sw corner of Iowa made it to 90º. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 13 minutes ago, Powerball said: We're at about 95% leaf out here in DFW at least. Some of the trees still have that early season yellow tint to them, and the pine trees (the ones that lose their leaves) still aren't in full bloom. Once you get up to Texoma (outside of the Urban Heat Island), I'd say it's more like 75-80% leaf out. I imagine the trees definitely have a mid-summer look down in Austin / San Antonio / Houston though. Yeah we were down in Huntsville TX north of Houston. Glad we were there before the major heat set in lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 6 hours ago, cyclone77 said: First 80 degree day today. 6 hours ago, Spartman said: Same here KIND hit 80 also. A gorgeous perfect Midwest day, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 This was the 2nd completely dry weekend for 2024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 First 80°+ high temp of the year at ORD on Sunday, with a high of 81°. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 7 hours ago, weatherbo said: Made it to 56 here today with light winds, full sun...felt really nice. Opened the windows for some fresh air. Hopefully done with the white stuff. When MN Fishing opener is over, then the white stuff is over. That would be the 2nd weekend of May. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 9 hours ago, Chicago Storm said: First 80°+ high temp of the year at ORD on Sunday, with a high of 81°. 80 here and 82 at City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 15 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Yeah we were down in Huntsville TX north of Houston. Glad we were there before the major heat set in lol I was back up on Detroit briefly this weekend. Even there, they're finally starting to see some leafing out (I'd say it was about 10-15%). Everything was still bare 2 weeks ago. The grass was extremely green/lush though, more so than I expected for mid-April. It speaks to how warm the winter was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Blooms started on the breadford pear trees this weekend in my back yard. Lots of green buds starting to show up on trees. It won't be long before fruit growers will be sweating every forecast for frost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 peaked at 84 yesterday, already at 81 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainsucks Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 unreal weather for mid-April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Not in our sub, but extremely impressive dry line out in the Plains this afternoon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Storms just south of the ohio river are absolutely crawling, this one near lagrange, ky has barely moved in the last hour! (warning says moving SE at 5mph...) 7:40pm 8:30pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 82 at KIND today. Low 80's in the third week of April is nothing special. Low 80's in Northeast surface flow is sort of notable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Very windy today with NE winds off the Lake with approaching LP. Rain still S & W of me. Wind Advisory in effect for winds up to 40-50 mph for the rest of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Mid 40s and lots of rain today, a few rumbles of Thunder too. All this moisture is great. Winds were really kicking earlier. 30 degrees warmer down I-35 in Des Moines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I finished with 0.67" of rain. That's not bad, but less than what models have been showing for days. Thunder was minimal. I at least got to see some heavy rain for the first time this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 A few brief showers so far with a total of 0.03". Some pretty big cells heading towards this area in the next hour or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Power outage for about 1/2 hr this aftrn. Winds really whipping this aftrn/eve. Rain is edging closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainsucks Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 On 3/28/2024 at 9:14 AM, rainsucks said: Probably won't see any extreme warmth for the first half of the month, but you can't deny that it will be solidly above average. yep, comfortably above average as expected, with the past seven days being very warm across the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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