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My place had a red sun before sunset tonight due to the forest fire smoke. It probably won't surprise any of you. There were no shadows before sunset.

The storms today are starting to look like a repeat of last night.

Already one flash flood warning issued today (Jefferson County)

Yes, the storm that started by Wellington propagated southwestward and sat over Fort Collins. My Radarscope program said there were about 150 lightning strikes near north Fort Collins in the recent time frame. That's one of the things that can happen with the non-westerly flow that powers up the monsoon surges. There are slow upper level winds, and the tendency to pop new storms at the foothills and the cities and they can move so slow that it becomes a flash flood. I'm assuming there were street flooding problems at Fort Collins.

It's the most predictable thing about northern Colorado weather in most years: the rainy monsoon nights about the beginning of August. And the dew point there is higher than my dew point in Ohio.

I guess you guys are in a normal monsoon pattern with moisture coming out of the desert, storms developing over the mountains, and better than average dew points over the plains. At this moment, possible 2" hail at Boulder, Wellington

Google maps panorama of RMNP's Alpine Visitor Center, with date-tag in December . In December, you couldn't drive on Trail Ridge Road, you would be freezing to death with 5 ft snow depth!!!

I actually saved this radar at 4:00AM, and it turned out to be a tornado

Right now, the SPC storm report graphic says 786 storm reports yesterday (unfiltered), with 600 being wind.

Drought to 200% rain describes Michigan, Chicago, parts of Ohio

Chicago's precip

My place had it a little different. At 4:00, more bolts than Amelie Arena during a Stanley Cup playoff game.

I have a storm. A lot of flashes in the sky. the rain is coming in

there's about 60 or 70 CG strikes shown

I can see the lightning from the new thunderstorm that is between Lima and Columbus Grove OH from 50 miles away

My place had a nice sunset with some various small puffy altocumulus clouds, some altocumulus castellanus in the distance, and an anvil in the distance. I didn't go jogging tonight because it's too hot. I usually like to go jogging if it is 80 or below close to sunset. Earlier today, the Toledo area to Detroit area had 70-77 dew points after the rains of the morning, but dew points decreased to about 70 with the mixing of the day.

93mph at Marshalltown

How many rotations are tucked into this thing anyway? Near Iowa Falls

possible tornado north of the tornado warning

I spotted a storm

for those who like insane CAPE

I keep forgetting the 00z GFS just doesn't exist at 10:30PM eastern daylight. Oh well, the 3km NAM and HRRR have quite a bit of development in Wisconsin tomorrow.

heavy squall line in Wisconsin, a few brief tornado warnings in the middle of the squall