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DVN has confirmed 5 tornadoes from yesterday so far. All EF1 or EFU.

Ha was just thinking that a little while ago. Definitely a shock to the system after the weather we've had. Humidity has really shot up too, with dews in the upper 60s, and very little wind. ORD up to a legit 87 already, and MLI has made it to 86. If it weren't for the cirrus overhead filtering the sun a bit we may have made 90 today as the HRRRRRRR suggested.

HRRRV gives us our first 90+ degree day of the year tomorrow. Will feel pretty nice after the upper 50s for highs a few days ago.

Found a way to miss all the tornadoes today lol. Followed the initial sup that hailed on us here northeastward toward Sterling. Had some nice downward motion in one of the RFD cuts, and had a nice ragged wall cloud for a bit, but then it crapped the bed. Broke off that when the new batch of sups went tornado warned back towards home. Chose the southern one and that one didn't do squat. Neighbors say that there was a nice rotating wall cloud that passed just east of us, and that went on to produce the brief Morrison tornado. Shot this from the front door, brief view of the wall cloud from the first sup, right before the hail began. picture of 400

1.28" of rain today brings May up to 7.64". Standing water everywhere again. Hoping the heavy rains over the next several days goes around us.

Just had 1" diameter hail for about 2 minutes, and 1.27" of rain. There was a wall cloud that passed just southeast. Took a few crappy cell pics. Now I'm gonna try to catch up to it and chase lit lol.

An area of weak rotation is heading right at us with that organizing sup east of the QC. May pass just a bit southeast of here, but gonna be close.

The second arc out in IA has already produced a tor based on a pic/report on fb out by Ladora IA. No warning with that one unfortunately. There's a nice hailer heading right at us here.

There's two notable arcs showing up on vis atm. The lead arc is a broken line of elevated hailers from the nose of Iowa down into west-central IL. The second arc is from central into southeast IA. That one only has a few scattered showers with it so far. Surface winds are backed better ahead of the lead/elevated arc, but surface winds are still decently back ahead of the IA arc. The LOT discussion mentions that the lead/elevated arc may potentially become surface-based, and could end up being the main show. Since there's no sign of those storms weakening, and the environment out ahead of it is only getting better, I see no reason why that may not be the case. Can definitely see the IA arc become a nice tor producer too once it gets going. It's back closer to the vort max and will have plenty of instability to work with. Can definitely envision a whole bunch of tors with that compact spiral band as it lifts through northeast/eastern IA, and up into southwest WI. Should be a fun day. I'm still not sure if I'm gonna play the lead arc, or take a shot at the IA arc.

Beautiful day, as temps made it to 72, with dews in the 50s. Had a decent amount of sun mixed in. Got a lot of trees trimmed up, and got everything mowed/trimmed before the next onslaught of May rains.

Yeah I was surprised about the new day 2. I thought Jewell was one of the better forecasters, but who knows.

^ We're already over 6" for May here. Looks like 10" isn't out of the question. Would be back-to-back near or over 10" Mays.

Yeah if the HRRR/HRRRV4 are anywhere close to accurate there could be some nice tors tomorrow afternoon. Very low LCLs and very nice low-level shear, combined with more than adequate instability. Looking like a great local setup.

Maybe in December, but not May lol. Clouds have actually thinned enough to let some dim sun through from time to time, and that has allowed our temp to reach 66 already. That's already warmer than the previous 4 days.

I guess at work they started some kind of decontamination spray you walk through as you come through security on the way into the facility. I'm on vacation for the next two weeks so I'll be curious to see how that works when I go back.

Made it to 62 here. Did see a little sun shortly before sunset, which was an unexpected treat. Euro has non-stop 80s starting here on Sunday. Tomorrow looks like it could be another under-achiever but at least the worst is over.

Yeah it's about as bad as it could get. Still only 59 here at nearly 2pm, with the heavy overcast holding fast overhead. Days start getting shorter again in a month lol. The mid 80s with near 70 degree dews on Sunday will be a welcome change.

Heavy overcast and 57 degrees at 10am. Looking at the vis would indicate we won't be seeing anything other than a quick peek at the sun today. Hopefully we can get some drizzle to add to the misery.

I think the Gulf of Mexico is trying to expand northward to meet the GLs.

Lofted all the way to the mid 60s today, up from yesterday's 59. And the dense cloud canopy held on, with a few spits of drizzle fo shizzle.

It's in the 80s in northwest Minnesota lol. EDIT: 107 in Texas, 80s in southern Canada. 50s in the Midwest/Ohio Valley.

We'll probably totally flip the pattern, and have multiple 100 degree days in June. I'm sure at the least we'll easily tag a few 80 degree dews with all the moisture we're getting.

Only 59 for a high here today due to the persistent heavy overcast/drizzle. DVN only made it to 58. We're less than 2 weeks from June. What is this, the UP?

Some cold-air funnels being sighted with that tight cyclonic whirl of showers in north-central IL.

Got underneath a shower over in Bettendorf earlier that looked light on radar and it just poured down. Still a lot of moisture in the air today.