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If Chad is their verification, well then I showed the analysis data back a page or two. It’s running warm. Find it a little hard to believe that newer construction is biasing it that much. Unless they poured asphalt right under the thermometer. But, who knows...

At least you got AC in your truck. This weather is brutal for those of us that work outside. Today is the worst here thus far. Of course, dealing with super cold isn’t easy either...

Monsoon here. Rich get richer i guess. But, no T & L. Such a rarity anymore it seems.

Found the site I was looking for... https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/KLAF?days=182#Data ...analysis of weather sites and their accuracy. Heres a couple of charts for LAF, last 26 and 52 weeks of temperature data. Negative values equate to the station running too warm, and vice versa. LAF's high temp reading errors in the 26 week chart (yellow squares) are lol.

Oh my

I haven’t paid any attention to LAF in a long time. Is it really running that warm? And trolling me...you always can use IKK to do that. Especially dewpoints

A year ago, every news website in the US, if not the world, would be calling this a super spreader event...in all caps. People would be losing their minds. We're certainly not out of the woods, but times sure have changed. It's really nice to see.

Even closer IMBY to ORD. 3.96" for May. 12.50" for the year. But, IKK is drought proof. Rain capital of IL.

Awful awful day for May 28. At least the monsoon held off until after work. Just pouring rain here this evening.

You're the JB of summer forecasting. What are we going with this year, a combo of 1936 and 2012?

0.77". It's ovah. 3.22" now. 2nd place gone. Thursday-Friday system may push this spring out of the top 5 possibly, according to some guidance. We'll see...

^ Best climo

I remember when the concern was the water levels on the Lakes were too low. Wasn't that long ago really...

Models and forecast were awful on rainfall amounts for here for the past 2 days. Way too high. Just been bouts of light rain, adding up to 0.30". Didn't want a ton of rain...don't need it...but a little more would've been better for my new sod in the backyard.

Lol, yes. But with ORD, still doubtful. I’m not sure why I even ran the numbers. But when I did, and compared them to the new normal numbers, I was a bit surprised. A tenth or two here or there, sure. But almost a full degree every month, questionable at best...

Cool, thanks. Like I said in the other post, I know they played with the numbers a bit, but going up almost a full degree for every month is quite...um, interesting. Of course, maybe the values on xmACIS aren't the real/official numbers or something. Don't know...

2.13" total in the stratus. Thankfully this abomination is over. Looking forward to a nice dry week.

I was looking at the new normals for ORD, and noticed something interesting I guess. I went to xmACIS and ran the numbers for the 30 year period, and the mean values on there are a bit different than what NOAA is going with the new official normals. Straight mean average temps are 0.9 cooler on xmACXIS versus NOAA. Precipitation is basically the same. Snowfall is an inch difference. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy or anything, and I know they like to "massage" the normals, but the average temps are kinda especially different. Maybe RC has some intel on the process here... Month: Avg Temp NOAA (xmACIS)...Precip NOAA (xmACIS)...Snowfall NOAA (xmACIS) January: 25.2 (24.2)...1.99 (1.98)...11.3 (11.7) February: 28.8 (27.8)...1.97 (1.97)...10.7 (9.8) March: 39.0 (38.1)...2.45 (2.45)...5.5 (5.1) April: 49.7 (48.8)...3.75 (3.75)...1.3 (1.3) May: 60.6 (59.7)...4.49 (4.49) June: 70.6 (69.7)...4.10 (4.12) July: 75.4 (74.6)...3.71 (3.71) August: 73.8 (73.0)...4.25 (4.24) September: 66.3 (65.5)...3.19 (3.19) October: 54.0 (53.2)...3.43 (3.43)...0.2 (0.2) November: 41.3 (40.4)...2.42 (2.42)...1.8 (1.8) December: 30.5 (29.6)...2.11 (2.10)...7.6 (7.6) Annual: 51.3 (50.4)...37.86 (37.85)...38.4 (37.4)

Nope, no lightning here. Just a cold cold rain...currently 38.8˚ and pouring. After the past couple of weeks worth of rain, don't want to hear about any drought nonsense here.

That random 0.1” around IKK. Regardless of the snow, what an awful cold wet storm for almost mid May.

I ran a 5K and drank a 12 pack of Two Hearted Ale after my shot. But for real, I had about a 12 hour period of feeling tired and sluggish the day after my shot. But by evening I was good to go. Arm was sore for about 2-3 days. Everyone is different though...

Always pull for drought, lol. Summer monsoon in IKK is as big of a lock as Chad Evans calling for a hot summer. This spring has been nice so far, with no big rain events here. But, 1.68" in my stratus yesterday. Though I'm sure your beloved drought monitor will still show impending doom.

We had a guy who wore shorts all the time. Didn’t matter the temperature. And I’m being serious. But he eventually went into management, so now it all makes sense. Cold monsoon continues here. I don’t want to see anymore drought crap for around here for awhile...

Front moved thru here. Rather abrupt temp change. My shorts not working so well now. Thought it was going to hold off until later in the afternoon/evening.