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Has been torrential rain here at Coppin for the past 10 minutes

Narrator voice - “Hell of a line coming through Chicagoland, St Thomas with occasional clouds shading my beer” Nice to see us rocking and rolling back home.

I first noticed it in 2005 when -ENSO/-QBO December's were cold. Even cold-neutral ENSO fit it, as 1989 was an analog used for 2005. It seems to work in the reverse too, which is what you like to see for a solid correlation.

Well that line escalated quickly in N IL. Curious to see if the winds intensify in this southern part of the MCS.

74/73 with .55" of rain. In a lull but another lighter cell moving in shortly.

the reverse jinx worked.

currently right underneath that cell moving through the Germantown/Gaithersburg/Laytonsville area, not much T&L but big time downpour going on for the last 10-15 minutes (and counting), with more behind it this might be flash flood territory if it doesn't move out soon?

Summah!

I mentioned it a week or so ago, but +QBO/El Nino (regardless of strength) Decembers are an extremely strong signal for warmth. Since 1980, there have been 6 +QBO/Nino Decembers and they were all warm, some were all out blowtorches

They can have the wind. I just want a quick shot of rain to cool things down so I can grill later.

Who turned out the lights?

Per usual the goods are in the more northern areas. Is a good ole GV thunderstorm that much to ask for?

I’m shocked the forum isn’t buzzing more. That MCS is essentially a Cat 1 hurricane running thru Wisconsin right now

Feels like it

Better chance for storms Thursday night or Friday night? Championship baseball game for my son and they are asking which night is better.

First 90 of the year for Chicago today.

Well, there was a modicum of truth to it in that we had a historic blizzard, and then a few weeks later a record cold snap...issue is he sensationalized the shift and implied that it would be sustained. There was definitely a shift, though. The problem was the first half of the season we had the marine forcing competing with the +ENSO regime, so the result was a horrid pattern with ridging displaced eastward into the NE, which was different from December 1982 and 1997. December 2006 was kind of like December 2015 and I fear the coming December may be similar. I think it was Chuck that said it fits the billing for +QBO, but getting ahead of myself there...I'm won't touch the polar domain until like August.

Those are perfect days!

Looks like some nasty cells moving into Lanco .

Just went out for 15 minutes to move a few things and water my container plants and damn it's HOT!! Sunny and 90 with a dew of 73.

Good amount of lightning over Leesburg now, looks like more firing up there.

Brrr .. Ass

Looks like couple days next week could be downslope dandies, but otherwise 75-80. DSD days maybe 84-88. No dews. Meh.

Deep summer with the heat and dews. 87.0/68

Station just went over an inch. Started the day with .41” and now at 1.02” and still raining.