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.46" rain imby in the early morning today. First measurable precip since .27" on 9/13. July's 8" and August's 4" are distant memories. I have two spring fed creeks nearby, they have slowed some but not much over this dry stretch, so the water table & aquifer is still doing okay.

89.1 at mdw last hour. so close.

Right at 1/2" here mtd, 0.0 for the past 10 days. heard thunder on and off all weekend it seemed like but your screw zone has engulfed me finally. 1-3" weekend totals all around me.

Closing in on a month of dry here, only 1/10" since 8/18. Everything started getting crunchy this week. Hail Mary conditional chance for a little training overnight/tomorrow morning, but if that doesn't manifest gonna get into the yellow on the drought map. Last several GFS runs showing a low breaking the ridge down next weekend but then has it coming back after, Euro isn't biting, ridge in place to the end. That early taste of fall might be all she wrote until October.

Nice. Was there also, only regret was not sitting up high, assuming you didn’t either we both missed seeing the last fireworks of the summer as he was wrapping up the show. Bears owner be damned Soldier Field is having a hell of a weekend. Prez be damned the city is having a hell of a weekend also, felt like the center of the universe with everything going on.

Saw turnpike troubadors at the salt shed last night. The weather made a really good show truly great.

Coming up on the 35th anniversary here in less than two weeks. 60mph gust from the outflow of a cell that clipped to the north, rainless, then picked up a quick 8/10” as it filled in. Second cell incoming now, also pretty gusty.

1.07” imby ne of RFD for the weekend, all yesterday. Been a lush summer here, no stretches of crunchy grass or dust yet this warm season. The corn out this way looks as good as you’ll ever see it.

just came off the Geitlandsjökull glacier in Iceland about an hour ago. Not quite as photogenic as banff but helped with the snow withdrawals

A couple of the recent LOT AFDs were issued by ILX including the current one. I haven't noticed that before, hope all is well at our local wfo.

was in Lake Geneva today, sky is milky white with the wildfire smoke, hints of burning plastic outside. bleh

Got about 1.5" in an hour west of Harvard. Still backbuilding to the west, might end up with around 2". Some of the gusts just now flattened some of the surrounding corn to the degree there's definitely going to be some yield issues.

Rockford Ironman tomorrow is going to be brutal.

That blessed stretch where Oak St beach might as well be Waikiki.

mjo moving phases and ssw incoming. potentially more active, cold, and stormier around here (chicago) later into March. (am a weather dummy also, hopefully the professor is proud but prepared for my lashes)