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Spectacular evening with a light breeze

Huh....never took you for the type to look for 'bears'.

Again, I post this tirade every year, but why are people such fans of high dewpoints? Sunny with highs in the 70’s and 80’s with dew points in the 50’s is what I would consider perfect summer weather, even for this winter fan. It’s good for just about every outdoor activity imagined. Yet I don’t get the rooting for 85/72? Who wants to be sweaty and uncomfortable? Do you enjoy the crotch rots and the swamp ass? Are you a nudist that doesn’t want to catch a chill at the twigs and berries solstice festival? I understand enjoyment of almost all kinds of weather except for the ones that like high temps and dew points. They must have stock in deodorant companies and air conditioner manufacturers. That is all.

It does have its advantages but the heat goes from April to late October, part of the reason I moved back

wish we there

Appears to be a little iridescence in some of these high clouds

There are dew points in the low 40s down to Columbus and Indianapolis today. The climatological average dew point value for June (whole monthly average) is 59 at/north of I-70, and 63 in Louisville

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Just for future visual reference: We remain very far behind the 2022-23 La Nina so far since we started from a warmer point last winter. The 2020-21 La Nina isn't super far off but we seem a bit ahead of it.

I went and checked out the damage path from the Wednesday tornado north of Leesburg. It took a route right through a neighborhood, but thankfully all of the damage I could see was limited to trees. Obvious damage in a couple of spots right next to the road, but there were some bigger trees down back way behind houses. Two things I found particularly interesting, first that it touched down almost immediately after getting over the catoctins. They aren't very high in that spot, but I do wonder if the terrain had any impact on timing. And second, how fast that thing must have been moving. NWS said it was only on unit ground for a minute, but the damage path was pretty darn long still. I also went back and looked at the pictures I took on Wednesday and then compared them to the radar loop, and what I was seeing makes a lot more sense now. The tornado north of Leesburg lifted just as I started taking pictures. And so what I was focused on instead was the new rotation that was just beginning and was what eventually produced the long track tornado that moved through Montgomery county.

Seriously, why do people live there?

65/55 with a stiff breeze. Summer weather everyone can agree on! Grab the hoodie and spark up the fire pit.

What an evening to sit on the patio, cocktail in hand, good music going, and enjoying the breeze.

i'm more excited by +20 850s at day 10 than universal agreement for 18" at hour 12

Spent the last few days in Vegas roasting in the record breaking 110 degree heat, warmest air temps I’ve ever experienced. Coming home to breezy low 70s and dews in the 40s feels amazing.

Hopefully we get 2020-esque where we get whole lot of more moderate cyclones than stronger ones. A busy June and July could keep these temperatures from rising to even more insane levels come August or September.

Geoloction options for Radar....

NWS Fullscreen Hi-Rez option...

Awesome, happy to share and glad that others enjoy.

Seems the forest preserves have them THICK. Been to two of them in two weeks, and heavily ambushed with cicadas, here in Champaign? Nothing.

Yeah this line really blew up as it got into eastern Tennessee.

Just checking this out. Looks rough!

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southern Madison County in western North Carolina... Northern Haywood County in western North Carolina... Buncombe County in western North Carolina... * Until 700 PM EDT. * At 604 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles east of Newport to 9 miles east of Gatlinburg, moving southeast at 50 mph. HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.