frostfern

I saw Kalamazoo got hit with a ton of lightning. Nice 5:30 am natural alarm clock. Didn't know there was wind as well. Storm was lame here. Only 0.5" rain.

In my personal subjective experience, "dryness" is more of a comfort factor when the air temperature is below your body/skin temperature... say 75-95 degrees. When it gets to be 100 or above it's unpleasant no matter how dry. A 90 degree day in Denver isn't horribly uncomfortable compared to the same in New Jersey... but neither are anywhere near 115 in Phoenix. High dews are an annoying thing when the temperature is in the 80s, but once you get into the 100s it's more of a choose your poison thing. You might get heat stroke faster if it's 105 with a 70 degree dewpoint, but if it's the same temp with a 40 degree dewpoint you dehydrate faster.

I just hope the wealth is shared north and east some.

Overnight MCS will make me happy if it can just hold together long enough for a morning CG show. I haven't seen a single CG this year.

Boo. I want rain/storms and I want Euro.

Cool. I could see the towers way low on the horizon from here on the west side of the state.

I will chase if anything good is possible.

It can happen if all the trees die and drop their leaves. That's where it'll be by August here if this bullshit pattern doesn't change.

Lake MI Shield prevails once again. Typical with a weak-ass afternoon cold front. What happened to warm fronts? Not even one this summer. It's the only way to get precip here in the lake shadow.

Screwzone here again. Need a warm front to bring rain. Cold fronts never do it with Lake Michigan suppression.

It won't happen in June for sure. Nothing significant this year except dryness and boringness.

It's better than nothing, but afternoon pulse stuff here isn't really cutting it. Areas outside the natural terrain/like-breeze convergence zones are repeatedly screwed out of rain despite random thunderheads nearby every day.

I can't deal with low 70s dewpoints at any temperature, unless I'm not moving at all.

I bet there was a good view from out in the middle of the lake. Here the towers to my west were mostly obscured by anvil precip. Only a few drops made it to the ground IMBY though, along with the outflow breeze. A cluster of pulse cells popped up 50 miles to the east, which I filmed later in the evening. Gotta love the new Tampa Bay climo with easterly "trade winds" lol. Just wish the wealth was spread better.

Awesome! I slept through it.

I took some video and time-lapse yesterday afternoon. Heard soft distant thunder but didn't get a single drop of rain, just outflow. It was interesting how there was some westerly shear but storms were basically stationary. Low level easterlies cancelled by upper level westerlies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-fjaLstpM

The sky was nice today with a lot of billowing towers and occasional distant rumbles. Outflow boundaries from small cells that popped up all around kept the temperature in the low 80s, but still barely enough rain to wet the ground IMBY.

Here it's Tampa Bay climo. Waiting for something to pop up. Whatever showers form will probably rain themselves out in the same location they formed. Virtually zero wind field today. Good setup for more 2.5" bullseyes with 0.05" 5 miles away... just like yesterday. There's enough instability for lightning if something can get going enough. Didn't hear anything yesterday as it was all pretty shallow showers.

The sun is out and theres a lot more instability today, but who knows where the showers will pop. Probably more lightning around today, but good coverage isn’t guaranteed.

An extremely localized cloud burst did most of it here. There is one swath from Allegan up through downtown and a few cloudburst spots south and east. One popped up near east grand rapids and dumped for 5 minutes or so adding a half inch almost instantly. The more general light rain band was only 0.1 to 0.2.

About 0.7" here. Half of it fell almost at once under a tiny cell, but more widespread lighter rains are also adding up now.

Low-topped microcells dancing all around me, but nothing overhead. Once cell up to 30k feet over Ottowa County, but its not moving east at all. Grrrrr.

Sun didn't come out enough for lighting here. Figures. Still some good downpours scattered about to the south and west but they are just agonizingly slow to move in.

The showers are just slowly inching north... agonizing. All the stronger updrafts with lightning are to the northeast where the sun came out. Hard to get lighting with clouds all day here.

So much soup in the air today... yet nothing significant falling out of the sky. Need the sun to come out to kick anything off.