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Love the rainbow at the end of the video!

Trying out BLUE RESILIENCE from Twin City Seed Company later this summer. Supposedly has greater stein resistance

I recently lamented to my wife how thunderstorms at least in our area were becoming a rare animal. But like you said, this summer they seem to be making up for "their" recent absence. But maybe not for all.

Dews here have jumped back into the 80s as the dormant boundary approaches. Feeble cumulus flailing in failure along the boundary as it approaches the QCA.

Usually the peak is late July thru most of August. There are also a lot of misconceptions about the monsoon. It typically affects the high country and occasionally storms push down into the plains.

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Perhaps you should examine your expectations and not over-index on social or broadcast media. But even with that said I have noticed several Mets on social media being careful to say that not everyone will get rain on any particular day. Today a lot of people west of the metro would disagree with you. Except for Friday and partially Saturday, many locations have seen good precipitation. That goes for the past 2 weeks actually. Also, it is more of a pattern and not an event. The pattern allows storms to form on the western slopes.

I will always take a cold, dry winter over a warm one. There is nothing worse than 65 degrees on Christmas Day with bad air quality.

My thermometer thingy isn’t very good

The thermal ridge was north. It's very doubtful that ORD would have topped the current highest of the year, which is 96° (7/14).

The way the storms moved almost due south in Illinois reminded me of the Roanoke F4 day almost exactly. If a remember correctly, wasn't that also expected to be a derecho type event to start the day?

When do we ever not have to thread the needle? This ain’t Buffalo.

My ac just kicked off. I have it set for 70F. It’s currently 71/65. Works for me, less electric use.

Chicago dodged what likely would've been its hottest day of the year thanks to today's storms. Rockford and Madison reached the mid-upper 90s under plenty of sun, and even Detroit ended up warmer. Pretty unlucky (or lucky) depending on how you view it, and also a really bizarre set-up.

I love those.

We pop up.

it sure started that way, windows open last night with the fan drawing in cool air all night long making snuggling under summer blankets really enjoyable no such luck tonight, both ACs still running, 77/69

Deluge right now. It's been one of the best thunderstorm summers in years here in Whitestone.

Same here. Dews have risen as the temps dropped. During peak temps today, dews were in the mid 50s. Currently 72/65 which feels great.

in DC ? that place is a swamp these wag-the-dog days of summer temps were in the 50s here when I got up, don't usually get dew points higher that the temp IMBY, dew point didn't hit 60 until about 11:00 am and it wasn't long after that the ACs were turned on

Had a really nice storm this evening. Picked up 1.27". That gives me 7.72" for the month.

it was a coc day here.. drunk again? agenda driven? hottest summah ever getting to you?

Hi, Yes. We're in active discussions about multiple sites in the county(ies). Hopefully something soon.

65 is the highest around here congrats