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Never got out of the 60’s today, topped out at 69F. Not too shabby for June 9th.

Safe search off?

ineedsnow shovels his neighbors’ snow onto his own lawn.

+ crack.

No clue. Maybe Justin can let us know

Spent much of the day with dews in the 40s. With the cornfields already at knee high we probably won't be seeing dews this low again until September.

Man + tanning + clouds

I am both curious to know what Google search terms lead to this picture being found and at the same time afraid to know what those terms were.

when i snow blow my driveway, i aim the snow to the sunny side of the lawn to maximize speed of melt

Chance of a thunderstorm western and northern zones.... WB 20Z HRRR

The NAM Nest is the gold standard. The HiresW ARW2 is decent. HRRR and especially the HiresW FV3 are the worst. When they both showed the warm front staying south of DC yesterday, I started writing off severe potential up our way.

I'm starting to see some enhanced thermodynamic fields building and expanding, Especially over north central Pa.

Looks very convectively interesting (San Antonio - Houston region & south), Wednesday - Thursday this week. Severe risk with some DL shear still around, but looks to be more-so heavy rainfall and flooding now being June (precipitable water going above 2 in.) Both Euro & GFS trending up on totals near 10" in the state mainly just those 2 days from a fairly stout, slow moving upper trough diving unusually further south in the state. WPC is bound to issue moderate excessive rainfall risk over mid-coast region up to Houston/ETX for midweek. Euro EW rainfall index is already quite high for Wed - Thurs also. The persistent exceptional (D4) drought level status over SAT area should abate with this week's convective setup. H5 heights are likely to drop below 590 and may even be next to 585 in STX. Which also translates to 500 Mb temps still closer to -10 C. Going below normal for June standards.

Nws mentioned the possibility of discrete cells forming ahead the main show and that appears to be happening. Tonight will be rocking for most of us.

Slightly grimier version of the what you'd see at the tip of the CC canal..but pretty close today!

True-it’s not quite warm enough for winter.

That's true. Would have my son do it tomorrow...buuuutttt rain.

It’s hard to find time to mow the lawn between rain, work, and events.

Yeah. I can smell the smoke.

On the bright side, at least it's not winter.

The activity that moved through parts of the metro area yesterday afternoon over-performed expectations on what was an isolated/low quality potential day. The main severe t’storm just missed home by about 2 miles or so, but I took a drive down the road into Batavia and encountered 2.00” hail and ~60MPH winds. After it passed, I drove another block or so down the road and found some 2.50” hail stones laying in the grass. This wasn’t a true big hail, as it was just spiky smaller hail (See pics). The worst of it all was in the subdivision to the east of where I sat, where 70-90MPH downburst winds occurred with 2.50” hail as well. I drove through this area post-storm, and there were hail piles everywhere, high quality hail fog, shredded trees, and widespread significant tree damage.

It's smokey and cold. This sucks.

Lol, wife spotted this person at Logan. Maybe they're surfing AmWx Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk

I’m thinking a couple good drinks are in order this evening to take the sting off this dreary weather today. Perhaps an espresso martini, or two?