cyclone77 Posted Sunday at 01:42 PM Share Posted Sunday at 01:42 PM ^ That would be nice. Feeling fortunate to have scraped up 0.63" out of the Iowa scraps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Sunday at 01:53 PM Share Posted Sunday at 01:53 PM Dews have mercifully dropped to the 58-60 range, after hanging around 70-72 the past two days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted Sunday at 02:21 PM Share Posted Sunday at 02:21 PM Iowa scraps yesterday gave .02”. Drought feedback loop in full effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted Sunday at 03:15 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:15 PM 54 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Iowa scraps yesterday gave .02”. Drought feedback loop in full effect Looks like our next shot at any widespread rain will come Friday night. Hopefully the setup shifts a bit further east this time. Hope that comes through because after that looks pretty zzzzz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted Sunday at 08:33 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:33 PM Yet another 33C/90F+ day, confirmed I got 34C/93F, with humidex of 41 and windy. The number of 32C+ days I'm having is remarkable, overperforming nearly every day by 2-3C. Low was 23C/73.5F. 7pm: Still 33C! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted Sunday at 09:11 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:11 PM 5 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Looks like our next shot at any widespread rain will come Friday night. Hopefully the setup shifts a bit further east this time. Hope that comes through because after that looks pretty zzzzz. Got some much needed rain today, managed .33” with some hit and miss showers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted Monday at 05:30 AM Share Posted Monday at 05:30 AM Ratio of “thunderstorm chances” in the forecast to anything of note actually happening has been abysmal for a long time now here. Desperately need a Wisconsin MCS charging across the lake. Any time now. This afternoon popup garbage avoids GRR every single time. Trash climatology getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted Monday at 12:04 PM Share Posted Monday at 12:04 PM 6 hours ago, frostfern said: Ratio of “thunderstorm chances” in the forecast to anything of note actually happening has been abysmal for a long time now here. Desperately need a Wisconsin MCS charging across the lake. Any time now. This afternoon popup garbage avoids GRR every single time. Trash climatology getting worse. At this point thinking it might take something tropical heading due north to bring anything meaningful this summer. It is so dry here the corn is shriveling up during the day and the weeds are even starting to dry up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted Monday at 02:54 PM Share Posted Monday at 02:54 PM 9 hours ago, frostfern said: Ratio of “thunderstorm chances” in the forecast to anything of note actually happening has been abysmal for a long time now here. Desperately need a Wisconsin MCS charging across the lake. Any time now. This afternoon popup garbage avoids GRR every single time. Trash climatology getting worse. First *we'd* need to actually have an MCS over here. Although at least we have been doing pretty decent with the popups around Madison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted Monday at 03:59 PM Share Posted Monday at 03:59 PM 3 hours ago, WestMichigan said: At this point thinking it might take something tropical heading due north to bring anything meaningful this summer. It is so dry here the corn is shriveling up during the day and the weeds are even starting to dry up. It’s even worse closer to the lake. I at least got a couple .25” in 10 minutes type showers the past couple weeks just east of GRR. It’s been hot enough we lose that much to evaporation every day though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted Monday at 04:28 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:28 PM 28 minutes ago, frostfern said: It’s even worse closer to the lake. I at least got a couple .25” in 10 minutes type showers the past couple weeks just east of GRR. It’s been hot enough we lose that much to evaporation every day though. I am closer to the lake than you. We missed out on the showers you referenced. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Monday at 04:57 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:57 PM would be one of our trademark just enough and just in time drought busters needs to verify 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roardog Posted Monday at 07:12 PM Share Posted Monday at 07:12 PM Nice cool day today. Only in the mid 60s with lots of clouds. Feels nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted Monday at 08:49 PM Share Posted Monday at 08:49 PM Added a couple more 90°+ days over the holiday weekend. Hit 92° on the 4th and 94° on Saturday at both ORD and MDW. ...2025 90°+ Day Tally... 15 - ORD 15 - DPA 14 - MDW 14 - RFD 14 - PWK 14 - LOT 13 - ARR 9 - UGN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Tuesday at 02:10 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:10 PM spuds in cycloneland this morning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted Tuesday at 03:29 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:29 PM Mellow wx here with 70's n a lake breeze. Some shwrs/stms moved thru inland yesterday, but other than that, not much to speak of. Nice not having hotter, more humid wx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted Tuesday at 10:18 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 10:18 PM 8 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: spuds in cycloneland this morning Picked up 0.05" from some dying anvil showers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago Managed a freak soak last night 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago I have a good one, WUN hourlies for today has 32mm/1.26" in 1 hour at 1pm! A repeat of Jun 27 where I got the most rain in a storm tallied - 38mm in under 2 hr? For the day 1-2" rain with small hail possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago On 7/7/2025 at 8:04 AM, WestMichigan said: At this point thinking it might take something tropical heading due north to bring anything meaningful this summer. It is so dry here the corn is shriveling up during the day and the weeds are even starting to dry up. Yeah, that bullseye near GR is dismal, 25% of normal rain June 8 - July 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Lake breeze went through trying to pop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 41 minutes ago, nvck said: Yeah, that bullseye near GR is dismal, 25% of normal rain June 8 - July 8 I am right on the edge of the darkest brown spot in the SE corner of Ottawa just in from the Allegan and Kent County lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 10 minutes ago, WestMichigan said: I am right on the edge of the darkest brown spot in the SE corner of Ottawa just in from the Allegan and Kent County lines. I’m hearing thunder from a cell right over you. Good luck with this 10 minute shower. It will miss south of me but maybe an outflow boundary can pop another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago Nope, missed me by about 1-2 miles to the north and east. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago Quite a flood event on the near west side early last night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 29 minutes ago, WestMichigan said: Nope, missed me by about 1-2 miles to the north and east. Cruel tease. That cell backbuilt for a bit and had 60 dbz aloft. It had a lot of thunder certainly. I got a little gust front from the south and it got dark briefly, but the rain didn’t really fill in until it was well north of me, around 3 mile. I picked up .02”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 38 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: Quite a flood event on the near west side early last night. Crazy localized! Was it a backbuilding cell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 10 hours ago, frostfern said: Crazy localized! Was it a backbuilding cell? It appears that a combination of a couple of factors lead to the setup... An MCV was passing nearby (just south) and a weak front was moving through, which aided in the initial development of activity. There was also a lake breeze that was set up just inland, which appears to have had a [positive] effect on t'storm outflow attempting to push westward against a weak 10-20KT southwesterly LLJ that was in place, thus leading to the re-development and training of activity across that corridor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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