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I did some digging and turns out it’s something called “rain”. It’s a relatively common weather phenomenon across some parts of the world. Exciting to see it so close by!

There are a lot of green, yellow and orange returns showing up on radar in southeast Wisconsin. I’ll investigate what it could be.

Edit: Low officially was 40. Tied daily record low from 1986.

Low at SBN was 41 but I had 39 on my thermometer at home.

Farmers probably happy to get harvest started

I woke up to 66 in the house. I considered turning on the heat but I just can't bring myself to do it in August.

Had a heavy lake-effect rain shower move through late this morning. Was hoping for one rumble to make it a rare lake-effect thunderstorm but no such luck.

When's the last time we had a legit fall tornado outbreak? The last few late-season outbreaks have been in December.

I see the theory but in reality it doesn’t really matter this time of year. As long as we don’t stay 20 degrees below normal until winter… and the winter brings arctic blasts over the lake in Nov, Dec, Jan we are good. Locally our best lake effect events come in January, historically, as long as the lake isn’t frozen over. But that would be the result of a frigid December.

Cranking the lake effect machine in late August. It’s gotta be a good sign for winter.

To be fair, the drama this week has me reading everyone’s posts during an otherwise slow stretch of weather.

The big cool down coming this weekend has me feeling some kind of way. I had a dream were getting a snowstorm this weekend. Boy, was I disappointed to wake up to 60 degrees and no WSW.

Delayed report but we ended up with just under 4” of rain in 24 hours on Monday into Tuesday. Four separate thunderstorms made for a fun day.

Solid garden variety storm

Watched two outflow boundaries collide just to my south on radar. Nice line of storms developed with, as @Jackstraw described, constant lightning.