wisconsinwx

Major airport weather stations have to get their act together and strive for accuracy; MKE's weather station is always several degrees higher than surrounding ones on offshore warm days like yesterday and today. Both days they hit 90F, but Timmerman and Waukesha, the closest local ones, were both in the mid 80s. Meanwhile ORD was generally lower than the weather stations around them, which I find odd as others have mentioned. As a weather geek, it kind of irks me that we can't trust major local airport weather stations as accurate imo.

Time for me to do a Hawkeye; the ways the convection has managed to miss us since July 2nd is comical. I'd take a heavy thunderless rain shower right now; we're starting to need the rain...badly. Only a trace in the last 11 days.

Even in this low shear environment, a pretty impressive cluster of storms just west of Madison.

I expected the storms to weaken approaching Milwaukee but also looks to be weakening as it heads into Chicago. Onshore winds doing their thing.

All it takes around here is 5 more miles inland and it was splendid: highs around 70, dews in the 50s, and two more similar days on tap. Cue Alek: best June climo!

Yeah but it wouldn’t surprise me to see the wet anomalies expand north toward your area from what looks to be the southern and central Plains/Mississippi Valley for the first half of June anyways.

Anyone else think 2003 is a good analog so far for this warm season? That seems to be the epitome of a slow start to summer around here among the last 20 years anyways.

I'm not sure how your climo compares, but despite averages being in the 60s all month for highs, it doesn't often settle around average (which would be ideal). The most May days that had highs in the 60s over the last five was 10 days that we had in 2014. It is just normal sadly for it to be up and down instead of having periods where we stay seasonal for several days in a row.

Yeah I feel like we were paying for the previous week’s chamber of commerce weather.

Honestly that mid 60s day followed by rainy and 40s would be preferable to four days of 40s and rain followed by a sunny day in the 80s, rinse and repeat; been there before in May.

Haven't seen the sun or mid 50s even since Sunday. It will be about time for a nice weekend weatherwise!

Yes, but I don't think you understand how some of this stuff is out of each individual's control. Imagine houses that don't have basements and are swept off their foundations. You're telling me if the people in those houses don't survive it's their fault b/c they didn't heed the warnings?