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Toledo area had 0.5 to 3.58", definitely some trees down with perhaps multiple rounds of storms, and there was briefly a flash flood warning. Toledo city got out of the drought by getting enough rain for June and July this month

The thunder and rain keep going here. It's so much what I was thinking would happen in June. It's going to be well over 1" by the time it ends in the morning hours.

some radar grabs

ooh, that might track over to me for some nighttime lightning BTW, HRRR sounding has up to 7400 J/kg of CAPE in Nebraska right now

I saw a red sun tonight due to the forest fire smoke. There were just a few clouds in the way, about 20-30 min before sunset. A few clouds that looked pretty nice and pink. First quarter moon. Pretty hot for nighttime, but I guess it could be worse.

by the way, temp: 108 dew point: 60 with some wind at Manhattan Kansas right now

The 18z HRRR shows the overnight MCS system in Wisconsin that quickly advances to being a bow echo in mid-Michigan. Basically it says the rain misses OH/IN. It says the big stuff goes from the west side of Saginaw County to about the east side of Tuscola County in just 1 hour.

The AQI is now 100-150 and also the 150-200 in Mich/Indiana/Chicago

I think there's kind of a consensus that looks like the last severe squall line on 7/20, such that several storms develop in Michigan and then go east into Ontario, and more south from there. The WRF-NSSL has a lot more development, breaking the cap, I suppose, into Ohio and Indiana. That's the thing. The 12km NAM predicts a capping inversion of 1 degree C in Indiana, which could be a reason that not a lot gets going. But that's the reason that SPC highlights a blob-shaped area every single day. Because convective development is not that easy to figure out.

Hi-res reflectivity from 2004? crazy. The enhanced outlook was a little bit of a surprise for me, but I did see the higher winds at 850-500mb in yesterdays models. and now, the convection-allowing models show much more on the thunderstorm coverage. I suppose you could say the NADOcast is just taking into account the higher low level 850mb winds and wind shear values, which is something that increases tornado potential.

hey, large 1.75" hail in Canada

ConvectiveChronicles did a 17min video on the surprise NC tornado

Things could get stormy tomorrow. Today's 12km NAM had 3900 J/kg of CAPE in NW Ohio. The models seem to vary on the 0-6km shear of 30kt up to 45 kt (the 18z NAM), which is quite good for summer, but storm relative helicity should not be remarkable. 12km NAM has up to 73 dew points in Indiana.

The CoCoRAHS station nearest me had 5.16" from June 20-July 19. It had 1.34" from May 21-June 20.

Now it was 128 at Death Valley CA climate station on the 16th. That's just some incredible heat. I wonder how many people drive there and realize their air conditioning can't keep up and have it 85-90 in the car.

compare to mars

This is a stretch of 110's that I seriously would not want to happen to me. Do you want to know something else that's crazy? If this month's Phoenix temperature of 101.2 was compared to Phoenix 1951-1980 data, it would be 8.9 degrees F above normal. Phoenix (Sky Harbor) Late June Phoenix (Sky Harbor) July

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.