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6 hours ago, bowtie` said:

Always surprises me that CG's come in a variety of sizes. Just had a popcorn fart from a tiny cell over the house a minute or two ago. Sounded like someone shot a shotgun off in the alley behind the house. Baby bolt.

Happened to me a few times at the dog park the other day from a similar tiny pop up cell. I like your description, it's very accurate 

3 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

few more days of paradise mode before some action returns to the area

 

But for real though if you could throw in just a couple of guaranteed okay snow storms a year this really would be best climo

The sky has a very funky look to it this night

@sbnwx85 You were right this basically is just winter storm forecasting in the summer 

Probably the best lightning of the year so far with these storms rolling past

Would be a nice surprise W after what was a goofy miss on Thursday 

Hoping to thread that needle between big storms and zero damage from either hail or wind tonight. As somebody said earlier in the year, the problem with extended active patterns is the second they slow down for even a few days it feels like a month since the last good storm

I just want the dunes to hit 70 something by like the second week of July. We're getting there pretty quick just through consistency; I have no doubt that just a week of 90+ would nearly finish the job

Lots of small hail with this cell heading into the city 

6 minutes ago, Chambana said:

Roads are becoming impassable throughout rural Champaign. Just had to drive in reverse with hazards on for 1.5 miles. 

That's crazy please keep sending pics

Downstream looks good here at least for some garden variety I hope

Gonna be interesting to see how tomorrow turns out, hoping we get a decent line at some point

I'll send some pictures but pockets of the forest preserve down the road are literally swarming with them. I realized on my dog walk yesterday for the first time how many there were; a certain kind of shrub that ig they like would have literally dozens of them per cubic foot or however one might measure cicada population density. They were all over the ground and for about a mile of trail, they were on virtually every single plant at every height. The next mile or so I couldn't find a single one. 

4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

starting to get some cu development 

Got some fluff out here too, didn't take long at all

22 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

Expected more lake cooling today, feels hot out already 

Beach season with an early start

Southern LM is already at almost 60°, just need a good heat wave and we're set

16 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Leave for my chasecation tomorrow, things looking pretty solid for the medium and long range in the plains and midwest. Pretty excited.

Keep us posted (pun intended)

A bit late to the show but last night around 3:30 I got quite the show in Plainfield. Ngl this was pretty close in swag levels to the recent eclipse at like 93% darkness or whatever 

Some dog walk pics of a line of storms that rolled through a bit before sunset. Was zooted; walked up a local preserve sled hill and didn't realize how close the storms were getting until the first rain drops started falling out ahead.  Just as I started to walk back down the hill, the cell headed straight for me started producing really consistent branching CC lightning; checked radarscope  to find a new severe t-storm warning on said cell. Only then did it register that I now needed to run two miles back through the muddy ass forest to my neighborhood with the accompaniment of lightning overhead and rapidly worsening rain. I had barely wrapped my head around the warning when I started hearing tornado sirens. At that point, ofc, the ol' adrenal glands managed to shake off the thc with ease and whoo boy, I don't think my ass has hauled like that since college track. I did slip in the mud one like a fool but other than a muddy pair of pants, I was fine. Sirens lasted for about five minutes; family says they were on in Plainfield, too. The storm never received an official tornado warning, to my knowledge. I don't think I've ever seen the sky be that rich in color. 

22 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

Raw as hell

While this isn't looking like a huge severe event locally, I'm happy to be seemingly reeling in another day of multiple rounds of storms.  My heart of hearts would love to go chasing tomorrow but I'm extremely wary of any chase to the east of home because I despise that moment of realization when you consider that every minute you stay in pursuit becomes another minute you're going to spend driving back. I love driving, but what really seals the deal is my car doesn't have functioning cruise control atm (from when I had to replace the ignition cylinder back in November and I broke some pins on the module connecting everything under the steering column), and I'm not about to make myself have to drive six hours back from NW Ohio in the dark without CC. 

Looking forward to some more storms this evening. Will be fun to see whether we just get some decaying popcorn at the hyper-local level or if a baby squall line can form as lot is discussing 

Have had storms rolling through on and off for like the last 7 or 8 hours now. Nothing severe here really but the lightning was surprisingly good with this last wave. This really is a fun season overall, I can really get behind the storms every day or two