cyclone77

Maybe since late May and June has had a mid to late August type pattern when we get to August maybe we'll get an active May-June type of pattern.

This year has a chance at being the first that I haven't even gone on a backyard chase since 2005.

Wow, I can't imagine experiencing something like that. Back then most people didn't have AC either, so sleeping had to be pretty difficult with such warm nighttime temps.

Man, every time I see your user name this always pops in my head lol.

Think I'm gonna start a thread about record heat index temps next January.

Well done. Capturing even a "bird fart" tornado in 2018 is a pretty nice accomplishment.

The couplets looked pretty nice on radar, nice and tight. Problem is though the lowest beam height is over 5500ft out that way.

Very nice! WAA wing storms exploding just west of here. The cell just to the west has a small hail core already. Could get interesting here sooner than I thought.

Congrats! Looks like you guys are getting some pretty nice action this eve. Have what may be the beginnings of a WAA wing from just east of the QC back up towards Maquoketa. Thinking we're gonna get smacked here pretty good by the main line in a few hours.

Some new cells starting to pop north of Grinnell down towards the better instability. Nice ML LR plume nosing into the southern half of Iowa. The southwesterly LLJ should keep things blowing up on the west side of the complex for much of the night. Parts of eastern Iowa could really get dumped on tonight. The LR plume and LLJ should keep the strongest storms right about where SPC has the enhanced placed IMO. Waterloo/CR/Muscatine would be my favored area for the heaviest rains tonight.

Those cells up near the MN border north of Riceville and Cresco are looking kind of interesting as well. Another east/west convergent boundary in that area.

New cell popping just east of Aredale kind of along that same convergence zone. That little convergence line snakes all the way towards Anamosa, and looks to be lifting slowly northward. Wonder if we'll see more sups develop along that as the other storms build in from the northwest.

Yeah it's been a very slow year. Think we've been in a slight risk once, and it was walked back to a marginal the day of.

Congrats!

I can't remember seeing corn up as high as it is this early. There's some fields where the corn is already knee high. Soybeans are up and way ahead of schedule as well. Pretty remarkable considering 6 weeks ago today we had accumulating snow lol.

I'll be glad when Alberto is long gone and we can get into more of a traditional weather pattern for June. Tropical remnants are fun for those who may be impacted by them, but otherwise it just constipates the weather pattern for the rest of us. The traditional spring chase season was a trash heap, so hopefully the summer derecho season doesn't disappoint as well.

Constipated August-like pattern in May? No thanks.

It's been a very strange stretch of weather from March through now. Spring snows, and now this weird stagnant/constipated split flow BS. Hopefully June makes up for it by featuring May flow over June instability. That could be fun.

Pretty benign looking pattern for meaningful severe for the foreseeable future. Hopefully June makes up for a very meh May.

That's freakin' crazy.

Ahhh, noice. Rapid transition towards a more summery look continues. The leaves on the trees are growing quite quickly, and should be pretty much full grown by later this week. The wind makes more of a rustling type sound now as it blows through the trees instead of a dull roar like when they're bare.

Old name made more sense to me at least. I have no idea what the hell hlcater is lol.

Don't have much time to type much, but just took a quick look at the 06z NAM, and it looks pretty nasty for parts of southern and southeast Iowa, and down into northern MO for Thu. Backed surface flow, plenty of juice, and nice jet support. Forecast soundings look pretty nice. Conditional setup of course. If we can keep surface flow backed like in subsequent runs this could get interesting.

Kind of hard to grade this winter. The first half was pretty bad, but the Feb train of snows and the late March snowstorm that deposited close to a foot of wet cement made up for it. Then add in the measurable snows that lasted deep into April. We finished above average as well. Guess Ill give it a B+. Even though we had some very interesting and unusual events late in the season, and finished above average I can't give it anything above that with such a poor stretch during the prime portion of the winter. Late-season stat padding events are fun, but cannot entirely replace the mid-season events that would have more staying power.