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12 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

No clouds in sight either

This might save us here, some high clouds streaming in, starting to get that bubbling cumulus look, but yeah I’m soaked already. 

1 hour ago, SolidIcewx said:

76/73 right now the start of a fun work day outside. Hopefully some clouds come in to block the sun a bit

77 was our morning low in Minneapolis. Already at 80/72, gonna be a swampy workday for us both.

88/72 at 10pm. This is proper heatwave stuff. 

91/70 in Minneapolis. 
 

It got very steamy today but the leftover cloudcover from the overnight MCS delayed warming and we underachieved by several degrees on the days high. 
 

Western MN has a few locations that topped out in the 100-102 range. 

Today will be the first calendar day precipitation event of 1” or greater in Minneapolis since March 31st. That event produced 6” of snow. 
 

The sound of thunder and rain hitting my roof is very welcome this morning. The heavy stuff went south of Minneapolis but we’ll gladly take this rain and hopefully lower temperatures that the slow to depart cloud cover will provide. 

Little bit of comedy in the afternoon update. 

93/66 pretty steamy out there this afternoon. 

13 hours ago, mhou said:

Nice!  I was just there last week showing my brother around Minneapolis.  I'm like 5 miles to your west and south near the Southdale Mall.  I saw that storm on the radar, but it just got dark here, no rain here for us.

Welcome to the board! I spent a frigid few winter days working outside Southdale in the lifetime fitness parking lot, they are planning on putting a high end apartment building there. 
 

Convection debris “saved” us yesterday as we barely topped out at 90 before an outflow boundary knocked us down to the lower 80s. 
 

Low of 70 overnight ensures the heat is off to the races today. 

1 hour ago, mhou said:

Howdy partner!  Where in Hennepin county are you?

Warm day out there, but seems like there's a few storms forming to the NW of the Twin cities.

I’m a few blocks east of Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. About the driest spot in the metro. 
 

Got caught up in a nice downpour driving south on 35W through Blaine earlier this afternoon. 

0.89” so far in July. It’s crispy out there, and the heat is about to get cranked up. Smoke got pretty bad yesterday afternoon, hopefully the southerly flow pushes it out.

Cool to see another active twin cities poster. 

11 minutes ago, Brian D said:

Was just going to say that 2 cells merged and are running the N end of MSP. Good downpours for them.

 

Yeah my in-laws up in Plymouth will get a good soaking. Had some good outflow gusts but nothing else. 

Lots of rumbles out there but it looks like the northern suburbs are the winners while just a few drops in mby and at the airport. 

Today is the 15th day at or above 90 this warm season in Minneapolis. 
 

Hoping to be a lucky one and get some rain tonight.

Had a nice thundershower this morning around 5am. 

0.06” of wetting the pavement rain. 

On a drought positive note, I’ve had zero issues with powdery mildew in my garden this year. Every year I’ve had it appear up in spots, but so far nothing. I can only attribute it to the lack of moisture hitting the leaves since I drip irrigate. 

Perfect day. 74 and partly cloudy with no drought relief in sight. 

1.74” since June 1st (6.92” is average)

0.16” overnight with the quick storm. 
 

Jah Blessed

1 hour ago, Lightning said:

Just drove all the way to Waseca MN today.  Was driving around with those storms along the 14 between Rochester and Waseca.  Way cool to see the full storm cell structure.  Too many trees in MI.  I was loving it today driving with these storms too play with 

 

I will say Rochester MN was the driest area on my drive between MI to MN.  Couple parts in southern WI were a bit dry too.  Southern MI, Northern IN and northern IL are very green now 

That part of MN is basically a northern extension of Iowa. Southern Minnesota has gotten more rains this summer, it’s been between the twin cities and Duluth that seems to have it the worst. 

Feeling blessed though, just had a garden variety storm roll through. MSP gusted to 60mph whoa. 

Oh joy, more thick wildfire smoke is forecast to move into Minnesota overnight and degrade our air quality. 
 

0.57” of precip in July and no relief in sight. 

1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said:

I'm sitting at only 0.75" in July.  

0.57” here through July 12

2 hours ago, hardypalmguy said:

below 40 is just as bad as above 100.

I’ve seen more thunderstorms at 40 then 100. 

Nary a drop of rain in Minneapolis, meanwhile over an inch down here in Okoboji.

Working in the Lake Okoboji area of NW Iowa today and tomorrow. Might actually have a storm roll through here tonight.