July 2025 General Discussion

[Chicago Storm]

1 hour ago, cyclone77 said:

Not sure what's up with DVN reporting sites not showing smoke like the other cwas are.  It's been smoky as hell all day lol.

Neither MLI nor DVN have an observer.

MLI is the only site with augmented OBS, likely conducted by someone in the ATCT (usually ass-y OBS).

[Stebo]

16 hours ago, frostfern said:

Wow.  I picked 1.45 IMBY but it was spread over hours.  As much as I’d prefer a thunderstorm to boring stratiform rain, I feel long duration light rainfall helps more with greening.  Still need way more water here, but the short duration 2+ inch per hour instantaneous-rate showers seem to run off to the street without truly soaking into the soil.  It’s especially bad when you have a layer of clay on a slope.

We ended up with 1.80 for the day on Wednesday at DTW. Yeah too much of the rain ran off though but it was nice to get some rain. Would have rather had it spread out over more days though, ended up with 7.38 for the month.

[frostfern]

5 hours ago, Stebo said:

We ended up with 1.80 for the day on Wednesday at DTW. Yeah too much of the rain ran off though but it was nice to get some rain. Would have rather had it spread out over more days though, ended up with 7.38 for the month.

GRR only had 2.62 for the month and MBY just over 2 inches (barely missed a heavy pulse storm on the 28th).  Still very brown here and now a prolonged dry pattern to start August.