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Dekalb ended up with more 90s in May (3) than July (2). Would not have guessed that at the beginning of July.

Make that 85/81.

Winds maxed out in the upper 40's I think around here overnight - I slept through it. More interesting was the amount of warmth and moisture at low levels of the atmosphere. Before the line came through, KDKB achieved an 80 degree dewpoint with an 80/80 temperature reading...at 2am. There was also this sounding at MPX.

Everything about what is going down in the PNW is crazy. Like getting to 115 degrees in Chicago crazy. All-time record highs are going to be smashed by big margins all over the place if the models actually verify. And the scariest part of all? The GFS has led the way the whole time...

Just got warned. EDIT: Easily the best storm in the year I've lived here.

Schaumberg, hope you're cashing in on this WAA wing of storms. Nice light show down my way at least. We lucked out a week and a half ago with that small stalled cell in Dekalb - I know sycamore has seen almost nothing in June.

Best (Only?) T-storm of the season in DeKalb. Hadn't looked at point and click since Wednesday when there was a 0 pop and 90's forecast, so this is a pleasant surprise.

Not coming down as it is points east and southeast, but decent snow and 1 degree in DeKalb. -20 wind chill. Coldest I've ever experienced accumulating snow.

Finished with about 4" of the fluffiest snow I've ever seen in DeKalb. The ratio on this stuff has to be 25:1 or better. Weirdly enough, it kind of plastered the trees.

Parachutes in Dekalb at 6 degrees. I don't think I've ever seen snow at this rate at this temperature before. Only seen sugar grinders or flurries below 10 degrees.

Moderate snow in Dekalb. 28/17 just before it began.

The 0z operational HRRR notches the win on this one, easily the closest of the hi res models last night. The rest missed the boat almost entirely.

DeKalb seriously lucked out. Windy but only leaves and small twigs down here. I am happy to take the rain and take a pass at days+ without power that people in Iowa are facing. Still ethereal and dark in the cold pool rains/gusts.

The wind core is south of you and not really part of the main convective line, it's a bit removed.

Just hit in DeKalb. Tornado sirens going off.

It's about go time here. FWIW, no real shelf cloud in DeKalb. Too overcast to see if there was one, at least from my house.

Well, 5000J/kg+ SBCAPE and 4000J/kg+ MLCAPE and 35 knots of 0-6km shear IMBY per the 19z mesoanalysis. Chances I escape with power...low and decreasing.

The conditions in eastern Iowa in front of this thing are about as good as it gets. The WAA wing was ready to party.

PDS Watch is out. 80-100 MPH gust headline.

I was in Michigan until 2015, then moved to Virginia, now I'm back in this GL region again, so hello. I'm hopeful I can beat the grand total of 3" of snow I got last winter...

If you are under 60 and do not have preexisting health conditions, you are at very low risk from the virus, even if you do contract it. If you are under age 20, we know that flu season is far more dangerous to your health. I have yet to wear a mask anywhere here in southwest Virginia. It's not being enforced or even directly suggested at any store or service provider I have visited. If I end up some place that demands wearing one, I suppose I will, but as an engineer, the idea that nonstandardized, random, contaminated pieces of cloth can appreciably prevent or stop the transmission of a tiny virus is just short of believing in magic beans. I wouldn't pile into an arena with 10,000 other people at this point, but freaking out about an unmasked person at a beach has no rational basis in the data we have.

Hello neighbor. I was going to say don't get your hopes too high - but then I see Columbia averages all of one snowy day and 1.5 inches of snow a year. I certainly hope we do better than that. This has easily been the hottest summer in SW VA in the four years I've lived here. The past few years were significantly cooler and wetter than this, especially last year - 2018 was Roanoke's wettest year on record.

Looks it to my untrained eye, but I'm looking more in VA and during the day on Sunday (watching soundings in BUFKIT) - not focusing on overnight in NC. ETA: Latest HRRR definitely not as warm as 3km nam was earlier. I didn't realize how warm that run was.

Not much forecasting left to do, and the only short range model to watch (HRRR) has been ticking warmer.

Last call from RNK