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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.

Looks like things could get somewhat interesting for parts of the sub next week. Euro brings in some deep moisture by mid-week. Depending on how things time out, and evolve somewhere in the Wed-Thu time frame may be something to watch. Wednesday is looking pretty interesting out in the central/southern Plains.

Kind of feels like they wanted to make a vid that would go "viral".

Nice to see deep moisture shouldn't be a worry. Just need the timing of the waves to play ball. Encouraging to see the Euro continue to beat the drum.

Op Euro dished out another powerhouse system for the 13th today. Deepened the surface low down to at least 970mb.

As I looked out the window tonight and watched the snowflakes blow around in the street lights I realized that the first autumn snowflakes of '18-'19 could be less than 6 months away.

Well one positive thought about this never-ending winter of 2018, looks like we'll be hacking off about a month of the mowing season. Maybe we'll get lucky and also skip over the ghastly dandelion season as well.

Congrats!

I just realized that last year on this date we hit 79 degrees, and MLI hit 81. What a difference a year can make lol.

Posted this in the lakes sub, but guess I'll post it here as well. My time lapse from near Nelson MO, or about 30 miles west of Columbia MO.

Interesting to see your perspective. I saw those same cu bubbling up, but they were southeast of where I was.

Yeah as cool as all the pics and videos are they just can't do the experience justice. I think the fact that the eclipse happened right as the sun was at about the highest point of the day made it even that much better. Traffic wasn't really too bad for me. I left shortly after totality passed, and took mostly county and state roads all the way home. The stretch of route 24 between Paris and Monroe City was the only time there was heavy traffic.

When totality hit it was like how when you're in a movie theater and the lights quickly dim when the feature starts. Sort of a strange feeling.