Chinook

This is a swath of smokiness that rivals some of the ones from earlier this summer.

My place has had some late night warm-frontish showers last night at 10:30. Starting this morning, there was steady rain, some of which was moderate. That has mainly stopped. There still hasn't been lightning in these two days. It's just incredible, there's been like 2 days of lightning this summer. I guess Thor went elsewhere.

possible tornado way down southeast close to Springfield CO

Here is the southern Michigan EF-1 tornado damage assessment. this isn't too far from where my Mom's home town is.

Mid-Michigan went from drought to 2-4" of rain yesterday, with, of course, more before that.

In the past 365 days since I've been gone, you guys scooped up all the drought in the West and mooshed it over to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin

highly sheared cells

I've never seen 7000 J/kg CAPE so far west, that is, in Colorado right now.

prelim tornado reports

Huntley/Lake In The Hills and Elgin/South Elgin had preliminary tornado reports

This is a confirmed tornado by Hodgkins

This 12-hour precipitation estimation shows the impact of the overnight MCS, starting in South Dakota and now in Iowa. There were severe wind reports in northeast Nebraska and around Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The big MCS right now appears to have been from two merged MCSs that were kind of separate at 12:50z. Otherwise, there were numerous areas of rain in IL, IN, and OH.

and, I might add, uncomfortable dew points along the coast, 77 dew point at Farmingdale NJ

radar at 3:34 shows the flash floods are scattered from northern New Hampshire (not shown on map) to Raleigh-Durham with perhaps multiple dangerous situations in NY/PA

it makes you wonder about the human impact. The storm tracked through Karval (almost), Haswell, Wiley and Lamar. I wonder who was outside their homes or walking outside at 8PM-10PM in those places. Or, what livestock might have gotten injured.

The big storms of the night are probably getting going right now around Hugo, Colorado. Effective wind shear is pretty nuts right now.

Welcome to tropical Colorado!

The Wyoming weather indicator is just a standard chain, hanging downward, located at NWS Cheyenne. If chain is at 45 degree angle: Wyoming breeze. If chain is at 90 degrees to the vertical: Wyoming hurricane! If chain is white: snow.

As some have said (ALEK?) Cooler by the lake! With a dew point of 73 over the water

Some lightning and hail a 6:23pm before fireworks

Loveland is about to get a lot wetter just a few hours before the fireworks at Lake Loveland

Happy summertime! (note: I have cut the parts of this image with license plates)

That actually kind of happened to me too. There was 4:00AM thunder, which is just irritating in the sense that I couldn't enjoy the storm. The Toledo area got 0.41-1.65" on COCORAHS with a lot of that 1.65" powered up by the 4:00AM thunderstorm. Some years, 1.0" wouldn't be cause for a lot of special attention. This 24-hr radar based precipitation estimation shows that the Maumee Valley and Ann Arbor were big winners. This was a weird storm system. On the note of drought, a lot of places have waited a long time to get 1.0" in one day

The dew points of 75-80 in lower Ohio Valley