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That sounds perfect to me. No risk of structural damage from a tornado to your property, but close enough to chase.

The details... ...Northern IL/southern WI east to northwest OH/southern lower MI... Current MCS continues a general weakening trend based on IR cloud tops, radar trends and recent reports. Air mass recovery in the wake of the morning convection currently appears plausible, aided by a modestly enhanced low-level jet later this afternoon and evening. Steepening mid-level lapse rates will contribute to moderate/pockets of strong MLCAPE this afternoon, and coupled with 40-50 kts of deep-layer shear would result in a favorable parameter space for supercell development by late afternoon/early evening with all severe hazards possible. Will introduce a small 5 percent tornado probability area across this region, where forecast sounding hodograph structure appears most favorable for low-level rotation/tornado potential east of a weak surface low.

Spinups for Chicagoland and points east? Might have to take a road trip.

Caught 1.07" over the past 24 hrs. My yard and garden are loving it. Last night's showers shut down the people blowing up their discretionary spending. Let's do it again this afternoon/evening!

Dang!! I'm glad that we went a couple of weeks ago. A big NO to sitting on the bridge like that.

I got the summertime equivalent of a DAB, the big T.

From the area forecast discussions, there is no consensus. What kind of boundaries/gradient is the current crapvection to the south going to lay out and where?

Dude, you are wasting a lot of time splitting hairs over the temperatures during the '88 heat wave/drought, as if 100° was some sort magical number. So what if the actual temps at first order stations were inflated by a degree or two? As you said yourself, it was the worst since '36. As an aside, I was 30 years old in '88 and drove from Indiana (with no a/c), spending some time in Philly and D. C. during the height of the heat wave. I saw several mercury thermometers that registered 100° or more in the shade during that trip. And it wasn't a one and done, it was days upon days of mid and upper 90's. It was most extreme heat and dryness I have ever experienced and is still one for the record books, whether the thermometer read 102° or 99°.

0.72" of much needed rain here this morning. Also, with a little instability, we got to enjoy some thunder, music to my ears. Now waiting on the big show.

I'm pretty excited. Initiation looks to occur just to my west/overhead. Since I retired from Emergency Management, I won't be tied down to our county, so I will be able to chase. However, it should practically be a back yard chase.

We hit most of the falls east of Marquette. The Rock River area, around Munising, the Pictured Rock lakeshore area, including a few that doesn't show up on a Google search. I wanted to go west, but we had limited time. I would like to go back in the fall, as you said, and hit some falls farther west and up your way.

You’re slacking

My wife and I spent the past few days hiking in the UP, taking a self-made waterfall tour. I can vouch for Amazonian-type insects. Also, the waterfalls were not as exciting as what they would be with a little more water to work with.

I realized yesterday that you hadn't posted for awhile. I figured that it was just because of the boring pattern we are in.

Lol. IWX is all over it already. Given the long duration of dry conditions in the forecast, it is possible that a flash drought could occur towards the end of the month. Rain totals across much of the CWA are between 1 to 2 inches below normal for the month to date, and with prolonged dry conditions expected through at least the end of the next week (if not longer depending on how strong the upper level ridge can get), this signals drought could develop. The CPC highlights the southern half of our CWA as an area that could potentially experience a rapid onset of drought conditions by the start of June. This is something we will have to continue to monitor in the coming week.

Almost four hours of off and on nocturnal boomers. A good night.

Normal temps for mid-May here are 72°/61°. I'd take 10 degrees below normal and be happy. Of course I also wouldn't complain about 10 degrees above normal.

That will be my weather for the next two days. The few days of summer-like weather is not a fair trade for the crap we've had to endure, otherwise.

Bo, turn the snow machine off up there or at least keep it in the UP, as it's only a couple of weeks before it's time to head up to the Upper Lower for some shrooms.

The trough just keeps on troughin'

My contribution to the complaint thread. Aside from the one week torch this year, April has been dominated by cutoff lows for the past several years in our sub-forum. This sucks.