July 2025 General Discussion

[A-L-E-K]

doesn't look like the quality soak will pan out today imby

[hawkeye_wx]

I got 1.11" of rain overnight from a couple lines.  Nothing too strong, but there was some solid lightning/thunder.  The global models did not handle this system very well.  

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Unprecedented in duration air quality issues due to wildfire smoke according to the NWS. It won’t be until Saturday afternoon that the AQI is out of the unhealthy category. 
 

AQI of 163 imby 

[hawkeye_wx]

1.18" should be my final total.  My July total is 8.54", almost the same as last July.  The plants and lawns are very lush.

[frostfern]

Rain. 

[madwx]

66 and stratiform rain at 3 PM on July 30th

[TheClimateChanger]

 

[michsnowfreak]

Although a solid shield of rain will be approaching soon, an isolated cell ahead of it developed RIGHT over DTW, dropping over 1" of rain. Just a trace here. Regardless of what happens overnight, between this cell and the cell 2 days ago (2.68" DTW, 0.33" MBY) there is going to be a huge difference in July rainfall totals between very close by DTW and me. The kind you only see with the aid of summer downpours.

[Stevo6899]

11 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Although a solid shield of rain will be approaching soon, an isolated cell ahead of it developed RIGHT over DTW, dropping over 1" of rain. Just a trace here. Regardless of what happens overnight, between this cell and the cell 2 days ago (2.68" DTW, 0.33" MBY) there is going to be a huge difference in July rainfall totals between very close by DTW and me. The kind you only see with the aid of summer downpours.

Looks like 10+ days of dry/low humidity days. It's you're lucky summer.

[frostfern]

46 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Although a solid shield of rain will be approaching soon, an isolated cell ahead of it developed RIGHT over DTW, dropping over 1" of rain. Just a trace here. Regardless of what happens overnight, between this cell and the cell 2 days ago (2.68" DTW, 0.33" MBY) there is going to be a huge difference in July rainfall totals between very close by DTW and me. The kind you only see with the aid of summer downpours.

Lot of similar days here with towers going up almost directly overhead but not dropping their load until they move a few miles off to the south or east.

Whats stranger is how the NWS didn’t predict this stratiform defo-band.  Crazy how they still weren’t mentioning it in their last discussion.  Maybe it was supposed to be over I-94 instead, but you’d think they’d be looking at the radar.

[cyclone77]

Only 0.42" from the first two waves this morning, but just had a slow-moving thunderless shower dump over an inch in a half hour.  Up to 1.56" for the day, 6.99" for July.

MLI and DVN are both well over 9 inches for the month now.

[roardog]

22 minutes ago, frostfern said:

Lot of similar days here with towers going up almost directly overhead but not dropping their load until they move a few miles off to the south or east.

Whats stranger is how the NWS didn’t predict this stratiform defo-band.  Crazy how they still weren’t mentioning it in their last discussion.  Maybe it was supposed to be over I-94 instead, but you’d think they’d be looking at the radar.

It’s even raining here. I don’t think any of the models had the rain even close to getting this far north. The forecast still only has a 40 percent chance here. lol

[frostfern]

8 minutes ago, roardog said:

It’s even raining here. I don’t think any of the models had the rain even close to getting this far north. The forecast still only has a 40 percent chance here. lol

I’m so happy to finally get a good soaking, but I don’t think I’ve seen a short term forecast this bad in a long time.  It’s like one of those anecdotes meteorologist haters will bring up (only they pretend the forecast is wrong all the time because they simply refuse to remember the 95% of times the forecast was right).

I can only imagine the hair pulling here if this was a winter storm.

[Spartman]

89'd yesterday, 89'd again today. Big fail these past few days.