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Last night's Euro a lot more generous with a swath of rain from Iowa into northern IL Monday, with widespread 0.5-1.0 inch rains.  Not enough to do much to help the overall drought situation, but would still be nice to see if it comes to fruition.  Temps may have a hard time getting out of the 60s Monday as well under a heavy overcast/all day rainer.

18 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Extreme drought has expanded across east-central Iowa.  A couple spots of exceptional drought have popped in se MN and sw WI.

If the new Euro is correct another few weeks of waiting for rain are in order.

The level of the Mississippi in the QC is down to just 3.5ft at the lock and dam in Rock Island.  Back in May when the major flood was taking place the level peaked at over 21ft.  Tremendous difference to say the least.  

Don't see any more 90s on the immediate horizon.  MLI has 36 for the year.

17 minutes ago, MNstorms said:

Looked outside as this front went by and there's 100s to 1000s of dragonflies flying about.

Looks like the radar's showing dragonfly advection.

Had a brief shower this morning and managed to squeeze 0.06" out of it.  

On 9/3/2023 at 4:34 AM, Spartman said:

Got 89'd on the first Saturday night of September. It's the highest it's going to get for the month. Almost all the 90s are dropped from the upcoming week.

Soybeans and corn has really dried up the past week as we move more into Sep.  Harvest season not too far away.

On 8/31/2023 at 7:16 AM, hardypalmguy said:

you're too cold this weekend.  it will be way warmer.  probably not as humid.

Looks like you were incorrect as expected.

Another morning in the 40s as we made it down to 49 here.  AC has been getting a nice break the last several days.

58 minutes ago, mhou said:

Just a little teaser from the lovely CFS model lol

Lock it in.

MLI finishes met summer down 6.31" and now down exactly 10" for 2023 compared to average.

Not completely shutout on the new Euro as 0.02" is predicted to fall here.  

41 here this morning.  Nice early taste of Fall before a little warm spell returns this weekend/early next week.  Temps won't be nearly as impressive as last week's heat wave, prob mid 90s tops for the DVN cwa.

50 here this morning.  Likely to dip into the 40s Thu morning.

3 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Hurricane Franklin, well off the US southeast coast, has cratered to 926 mb this evening.  72 hours ago it was 1003 mb and highly sheared. 

Hopefully the one heading towards Florida doesn't do something like that.

8 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

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

That's because the GFS mixes up to about 2mb.

Looks to be hot next week.  Doubt we'll match the impressiveness of this past heat wave so to me it's kinda meh.  Rather have more comfortable weather at this point for fishing, etc.  

Euro looks hopeless for rain for the next 15+ days.

55 here this morning.  Felt great after the past week's extreme humidity.

zzzzz

MLI and DVN fell short of 90 today, but did hit 90 here.  

Yesterday's 90+ was the 33rd of the year at MLI.

DVN has been 80 or above for over 60 consecutive hours now.  Dews are a little lower tonight, so good chance the streak ends in a few hours.  Still extremely impressive.

EDIT:  DVN dipped to 79 at the 1am ob, so 61hrs will be the total.  

Looks like we'll finish August with our 1.42" of rain.  Looking pretty dry for the next few weeks.  The way this year is going we'll prob get drenched in the latter half of Sep, then have a dry Oct, etc.  

Overall it's been sort of a dry year.  MLI is down over 9 inches for the year, and over 5 inches since June 1st.  The heavy rains in July definitely helped, but we've sort of reverted back into the default dry pattern again. 

DVN hasn't been below 80 degrees since Tuesday morning.

MLI's 100 degree high ties the 1936 record high.

I'm ready for Fall.

Both DVN and MLI hit 100, hit 99 here.  

21 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

At 2pm my weather station cranked out an insane 98/85/131.

Top notch heat wave. 

Janesville has you beat with it's 933 degree heat index.