Today reminds me of the Plainfield tornado day back in 1990. Powerful southeastward moving storms over northeast IL while we baked under full sun out in the western portion of the state.
Pretty sultry out there with dews pushing 80.
Looks like today/tonight's action should just miss northeast. Matches up nicely with yesterday's miss west.
Wasn't expecting to be under a severe thunderstorm watch today. Looks like yet another round of heavy thunderstorms for DVN's northwestern CWA. Expecting a nice round of anvil rain later from the leftovers lol.
The big 3-day high-end rain event that was so hyped by NWS and guidance resulted in a paltry 0.57" here. As per typical the northwest part of the DVN cashed in bigtime though. That area is way overdue for a run of bad luck in the precip department.
Looks like Iowa's leftover cloud debris screwed over the setup for the nw 2/3 of the DVN cwa. Will probably have to wait on whatever rolls in late tonight/tomorrow morning from that next round.
Only 16 days AOA 90 at MLI this year so far (19 here). Usually not all that far behind Chicago but apparently the majority of the heat has been just east this year.
Kind of feels like this year we've had a slot of debris clouds spilling eastward from Iowa (like today) co ck-blocking max temp potential.
Hasn't rained in about 9 days, so hopefully that keeps flooding to a minimum. That first big MCS tomorrow afternoon/evening could shove the focus for heavier rains to follow further to the south towards the MO border.