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Radar looks very impressive from Muskegon to Holland. That area now has a WWA for up to 5 more inches of snow. I drove through a pretty good squall between Elkhart and South Bend earlier today. Otherwise, there's been peaks of sun between the snow bursts. No accumulation.

GFS has dew points in the 30’s and 40’s over the holiday weekend which allows temps to warm to triple digits.

Overcast skies this morning from the convection to the east. Almost certainly will have an impact on how hot we get today.

I was inside all day for work so this is the first time feeling the high dew points all day. 86/79/100 at 10:00 is icky.

The Niles, MI dew point is suspect... but neat to see an 86 on our map.

Overcast and 70’s. Perfect weather.

I usually save this for winter but it's never too early to break it out.

Under a SVR Warning for 70 mph winds now. It’s been storming more than an hour. Nothing severe but constant lightning and thunder. Also have a Flash Flood Warning. Pretty good night.

Hatched wind area on the latest outlook. Not sure if it was there before.

Immediate threat is to my south…still hopeful for the MCS to swing through later.

Interesting set up out here. Remnants from the early convention never totally cleared out. It got up to 90 but the at-home thermometer is down to 84. Overcast and a clam wind. Storms trying to fire along and south of US 30 in Indiana.

Yeah, the sun is barely up. If it were noon I’d be sad, too. But it’s 7:20. Let it ride.

Storms re-firing over southern Lake Michigan.

It was sub-severe but a great, long storm nevertheless. Lots of thunder and lightning, winds gusting to 45 mph and torrential rain for about half an hour. Best storm of the summer personally. And the power stayed on!

Should get some big boomers at least.

Miss north stank.

Waiting for SPC to load but got a push notification of a Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for at least parts of Michigan and extreme Northern Indiana.

Currently in the enhanced but I think it may be a close call this far west.

2" hail in South Bend and Mishawaka. Best stuff just missed me to the south.

We'll see if these hold up. Note in the discussion 53kt gust in Aurora. Mesoscale Discussion 1560 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0929 PM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023 Areas affected...Northern IN into southwest Lower MI Concerning...Severe potential...Watch possible Valid 150229Z - 150400Z Probability of Watch Issuance...40 percent SUMMARY...Some damaging-wind threat may spread eastward late this evening. Watch issuance is possible. DISCUSSION...A small bowing segment has recently intensified across northeast IL, with a 53 kt gust recently observed in Aurora, IL. Some uptick in storm intensity has also been noted into central IL. The downstream environment into northern IN and southwest lower MI is not as unstable, but some low-level moistening from the southwest, in conjunction with continued support from a midlevel shortwave trough moving across the Great Lakes, may help to sustain these storms as they move eastward late this evening. While nocturnal cooling has commenced, a residual well-mixed boundary layer resulting from earlier diurnal heating/mixing may continue to support a threat of locally damaging gusts as storms spread across northern IN and Lake Michigan into southwest lower MI. Depending on trends over the next 30-60 minutes, watch issuance is possible. ..Dean/Guyer.. 07/15/2023

Indiana Dept of Environmental Management an Air Quality Alert for Sunday for that smoke.

It rained pretty hard here. Happy for those who got in on the action today. Hope the damage is minimal.

Pouring down rain here at 3:30. Typically heavy rain at that hour is the nail in the coffin for severe weather later. Interested to see how much recovery we get here.

I’ll pull out the red carpet for everyone coming to chase IMBY. I gotta work in the newsroom today. Sounds like weather might become the top story but we need this light rain to push out ASAP.

Last night's storms really packed a punch from some just northwest of South Bend. I was outside as the storm came in and observed gusts 40-45 mph in my neighborhood. But some downbursts/microbursts around the airport caused a lot of tree damage in those surrounding neighborhoods. I just noticed this 79 mph report from last night: 0137 79 3 WNW South Bend St. Joseph IN 4170 8632 ASOS station KSBN South Bend International Ap.