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Do you know what the solid red contours and the dashed blue contours mean? Trying to learn this.

July 23 1987: The greatest deluge ever recorded begins in the Twin Cities, with 10 inches of rain in six hours at MSP airport. For Thursday, July 23, 2026 1788 - A weather diary kept by George Washington recorded that the center of a hurricane passed directly over his Mount Vernon home. The hurricane crossed eastern North Carolina and Virginia before moving into the Central Appalachians. Norfolk, VA, reported houses destroyed, trees uprooted, and crops leveled to the ground. (David Ludlum) 1898 - A two hour thunderstorm deluged Atlanta, GA, with 4.32 inches of rain. More than a foot of water flooded Union Depot. Many street car motors burned out while trying to run through flooded streets. It grew so dark before the afternoon storm that gas lights were needed. (The Weather Channel) 1923 - Sheridan, WY, was drenched with 4.41 inches of rain, an all-time 24 hour record for that location. Associated flooding washed out 20 miles of railroad track. (22nd-23rd) (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Thunderstorms produced a record ten inches of rain in six and a half hours at Minneapolis, MN, including 5.26 inches in two hours. Flash flooding claimed two lives and caused 21.3 million dollars damage. Streets in Minneapolis became rushing rivers, parking lots became lakes, and storm sewers spouted like geysers. A tornado hit Maple Grove, MN, causing five million dollars damage. Baseball size hail was reported at Olivia, MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Lower Michigan and northern Ohio, over eastern sections of the Dakotas, and over the Central High Plains Region. Showers and thunderstorms soaked Wilmington, NC, with another two inches of rain, following six and a half inches the previous day. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Morning thunderstorms in the central U.S. drenched central Oklahoma with up to six inches of rain. Afternoon thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 85 mph at Fort Smith, AR. Evening thunderstorms over Florida spawned a tornado which touched down three times in south Fort Myers causing nearly three quarters of a million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) Observances: 23 Thu National Gorgeous Grandma Day 23 Thu Hot Enough For Ya Day 23 Thu International Yada Yada Yada Day 23 Thu National Sprinkle Day 23 Thu National Vanilla Ice Cream Day 23 Thu National Women Touched By Addiction Day 23 Thu Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day 23 Thu World Sjogren's Day

1.9” in Moncure

Nice! Glad I turned the AC off and opened the windows before I left lol

3.5 inches so far, finally a good rain

I remember my mom telling me about water skiing and barbecuing at the lake on Christmas of ‘82.

It's a drone. A DJI Mini.

You have been here for one of the more interesting periods weather wise. Do not recall such intense thunderstorms on consecutive days like this in quite some time.

I do wonder if the low-level circulation is reforming further south near the mid-level circulation in Bertha.

An interesting question is why the recent 2023 developing super El Niño was able to break from the warmer 2020s -PDO/+AMO summer atmospheric mid-latitude pattern and this one in 2026 hasn’t so far? We’ll have to just wait and see how things go heading into the fall and winter. Since a lingering -PDO atmospheric pattern could potentially alter the state of the Aleutian low and possibly even where the maximum STJ precipitation zones set up.

That's gonna feel good after my 106 high and 84 low yesterday at AFW

As strong El Niño as it gets….. And the subsurface heat/DWKW is reloading and strengthening under the 30C warm pool and is going to get pushed to the South American coast in the next month by the DWKWs and WWBs. The thermocline depression is ridiculous

Definitely. But the worst is likely behind us. August heat never feels as bad with the lowering sun angle at least in my opinion.

His post makes me want HHH to come back asap. As much as I don't think that's going to happen in next couple weeks.

HRRR looks a lot better for your area today. 2”+. Hope it works out - this event could go a long long way to breaking this drought for all of us.

The point was. He posts every tweet from them about cold and below normal and leaves out anything related to heat, AN. It’s part of his agenda

At least he didn’t cancel summer on July 4th like last year.

Yes, but that doesn't render them worthless...rather it's incumbent on a quality seasonal forecaster to apply the necessary modifcations.

Big points for the RRFS, or as I call it, Rufus. It had the I-40 corridor getting slammed for the Wed Eve-Thursday morning period first among the cams.

Thats a good chunk of time lost before any big heat comes back. That picture still looks like NW flow over New England. Isn't that guy from Indiana?

We are also relying on analogs that might as well be from an ancient timeline.

Just 1.21 here

The -PDO/+AMO atmospheric pattern is the dominant player this summer so far across the CONUS.

If you mean no more 100s then most likely but it's only July 23. Heat will likely return sometime in August

58 here. Nice morning.