cyclone77 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 63 and sunny at the moment. Feels warmer than that with light winds and full sun. Temps are in the lower 80s out in parts of western Iowa. Winner South Dakota at 89 degrees. Toasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Full sun and 47 makes for great spring yard cleanup. 50's next week will feel hot. Good call Jonger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 49 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: 63 and sunny at the moment. Feels warmer than that with light winds and full sun. Temps are in the lower 80s out in parts of western Iowa. Winner South Dakota at 89 degrees. Toasty. That stuff has to get here at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 9 minutes ago, Hoosier said: That stuff has to get here at some point. No doubt. Will be nice. This time last week western Kansas was in the midst of an all-out blizzard. Colby Kansas was in the heart of it, and at the moment they are sitting at 86 degrees with a fresh southerly breeze. That's one hell of a change lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Waukegan is 46 under clear skies at 3pm...pretty remarkable for May 7. Portions of northern WI may drop into the teens tonight, which I imagine would be close to the coldest temps on record for so late in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 This is time sensitive, so hopefully you guys can check this out before too long. This is extraordinary satellite imagery this afternoon over Illinois/far eastern Iowa. Check out the contrails moving southward over Illinois. Also check out the mid-level cloud deck over east Iowa/western IL. The level of detail from the new GOES-16 is simply amazing. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=ilinoh-02-96-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConfusedKitten Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Only ended up with ~2 inches here despite model consensus in the 3 inch range, Environment Canada's conservative estimates were almost bang-on. Still a bit of flooding in the parkland along the river, but no worse than the average spring thaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 5 hours ago, cyclone77 said: This is time sensitive, so hopefully you guys can check this out before too long. This is extraordinary satellite imagery this afternoon over Illinois/far eastern Iowa. Check out the contrails moving southward over Illinois. Also check out the mid-level cloud deck over east Iowa/western IL. The level of detail from the new GOES-16 is simply amazing. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=ilinoh-02-96-1 This ended up being one of my favorite time lapses I've ever shot. Check out how the waves of clouds in the sky remained nearly stationary as the individual clouds developed and then dissipated in the waves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Mid last week, the weekend was expected to see a cool down, with perhaps low 60s. What we got was fantastic, upper 60s to low 70s both days. Models are suggesting we have turned the corner. Our latest 7+ day forecast has the temp not falling below 47 at night. It's time for all the plants to leave the garage for good and get into the ground. The local garden centers were very busy this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 27.9F on my PWS this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 29 minutes ago, Jonger said: 27.9F on my PWS this morning. Not bad for May 8. ORD dropped to 34, quite chilly but safely above the record of 29 set in 1983. Rhinelander hit 22, tying the record set in 1929. They had dewpoints in the single digits yesterday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 24 for a low after only a high 40 yesterday. Hiked in Craig Lake state park in the sw part of the Huron's and I thought 40 felt great. 46 in the point for today with less wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Lol @ the HRRR forecasting lower 70 degree dews over central Iowa later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Impressive! Other UP low temps: -Baraga Plains: 12°F - Kenton: 15°F - Paulding: 17°F - Amasa: 18°F...- Stambaugh: 18°F (ties record low from 1925) - Clarksburg: 18°F - Iron Mountain: 19°F - Watersmeet: 19°F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Got down to freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 1 hour ago, cyclone77 said: Lol @ the HRRR forecasting lower 70 degree dews over central Iowa later today. Interesting, as usually it seems to pick up on instances of deeper mixing/lowering of dewpoints better than other models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 The bad, the worse, and the ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Hit 27.9F. That was only 1F warmer than my lowest temp over the past 30 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Pretty impressive gradient in surface moisture over the east half of Iowa. A few hour trip down I-80 from DVN to Des Moines would see the dews rise from 38 to 61 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 A few 90 degree readings in southwestern Iowa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Blue Sky high of 49. Less than 4 month until Met Fall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Thankfully missed out on a freeze here last night. Now if we can just make it through tonight I would like to think we're home free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 22 minutes ago, IthielZ said: Thankfully missed out on a freeze here last night. Now if we can just make it through tonight I would like to think we're home free. Don't look at the 12z GFS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 2 hours ago, IthielZ said: Thankfully missed out on a freeze here last night. Now if we can just make it through tonight I would like to think we're home free. Most of SE MI had a freeze this morning. Widespread upper 20s to low 30s area-wide. DTW dropped to 33F, missing the record by 3F. Took this pic on my car around 8am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Made it to 70 today. First 70+ degree day of May. Nice light show going on right now in the northeastern sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Mid 70s here today. It was unclear if we would see any storms this evening as some models had it all missing northeast. We certainly got it. I picked up a half inch of rain, a bit of pea size hail, and some real nice streaking and loud boomers. It's great to experience thunderstorms again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted May 9, 2017 Author Share Posted May 9, 2017 27.0F low temp today. Two hard freezes in a row here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 6 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said: Mid 70s here today. It was unclear if we would see any storms this evening as some models had it all missing northeast. We certainly got it. I picked up a half inch of rain, a bit of pea size hail, and some real nice streaking and loud boomers. It's great to experience thunderstorms again. Nice. Went all around us, so only picked up 0.03". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 The end of the cool pattern seems to be in sight. I'm talking for places outside of the western areas (which haven't had it as bad). Should get into a more changeable regime with some above average days thrown in... perhaps biasing more on the warm side in the final 1/3 or so of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 It's in the low 80's now in central southern Illinois. Still cloudy and 62 here after this morning's rain. Gotta dry out.....9 inches in past two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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