August 2025 General Discussion

[frostfern]

2 hours ago, Stevo6899 said:

Another top shelf day up here in bellaire,mi with minimal haze/smoke today. 85/43 humidity. This is what we wait 8 months for lol.

Surface smoke is slightly thinner today, judging by horizontal visibility, but the sky is still a sickly color here.

[A-L-E-K]

Back in the piss air

[Powerball]

We're even getting the smoke way down here.

It will make for a nice sunset, at least.

[roardog]

34 minutes ago, Powerball said:

We're even getting the smoke way down here.

It will make for a nice sunset, at least.

I was hoping the SW flow later this week would push the smoke out. Maybe not if it’s way down there. lol 

[cyclone77]

Days are getting shorter even faster since the sun sets within the bank of smoke 10-15 minutes earlier than the horizon line every evening.

[CheeselandSkies]

What a week ago on the GFS looked like it might finally be a sustained, active severe weather pattern for us this coming weekend into early next week now looks to once again focus well west of the Mississippi River and stay there until it fizzles out. 

[A-L-E-K]

12 hours ago, Powerball said:

We're even getting the smoke way down here.

It will make for a nice sunset, at least.

different brand

 

 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Had a 51mph gust on a decaying line of showers that moved through around 6am.

[HillsdaleMIWeather]

Just got about 4 inches of rain in an hour from a little thunderstorm being stationary overhead 

[Torchageddon]

I had my 20th storm of 2025 this aft but it sort of went to my east, just got sprinkles and long, soft rolling thunder for 30 mins. 140 strikes. It was the very rare due south dir cells. Crickets started yesterday.

Mostly cloudy today and with all the smoke its becoming less sunny now, oof!! That 10 day last week showing mostly sunny for the next period here really busted not just for smoke blot but typical cloudiness.

[Chinook]

2 hours ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said:

Just got about 4 inches of rain in an hour from a little thunderstorm being stationary overhead 

oh wow, radar says Jonesville next to Hillsdale got 3-5". That's insane from such a random shower type of a weather pattern!

[Jackstraw]

I'm ready for Blizzard Warnings already lol

[CheeselandSkies]

On 8/6/2025 at 4:52 AM, CheeselandSkies said:

What a week ago on the GFS looked like it might finally be a sustained, active severe weather pattern for us this coming weekend into early next week now looks to once again focus well west of the Mississippi River and stay there until it fizzles out. 

As hoped, the atmosphere took my post as a challenge. Marginal risk today, slight just northwest of me Saturday. Not looking like anything huge, but better than it was looking just 24 hours ago.

[hawkeye_wx]

After a brief respite, models are hitting Iowa with another wet period starting this weekend.

[CheeselandSkies]

5 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

As hoped, the atmosphere took my post as a challenge. Marginal risk today, slight just northwest of me Saturday. Not looking like anything huge, but better than it was looking just 24 hours ago.

...annnnnnd it's gone (today's marginal at least, they probably took it away because the HRRR support went away). 

[frostfern]

1 hour ago, CheeselandSkies said:

...annnnnnd it's gone (today's marginal at least, they probably took it away because the HRRR support went away). 

This summer has been complete trash for organized storms.  No jet energy to speak of south of the Canadian border.  

The local heat islands / lake breeze convergence zones around Chicago and Detroit get some good afternoon stuff in an ultra-humid airmass with these weak fronts, but that’s about it.

I’m hoping for something like 2018 where late August into September gets active again.

[roardog]

34 minutes ago, frostfern said:

This summer has been complete trash for organized storms.  No jet energy to speak of south of the Canadian border.  

The local heat islands / lake breeze convergence zones around Chicago and Detroit get some good afternoon stuff in an ultra-humid airmass with these weak fronts, but that’s about it.

I’m hoping for something like 2018 where late August into September gets active again.

Yeah. It’s getting crispy around here now too. We’ve definitely had more rain than you’ve had this summer but with these slow/nearly stationary storms, it almost has to develop over top of you or it rains itself out before it moves 5 miles. lol

[nwohweather]

How has everyone’s summer gone? Outside of pretty warm conditions, it’s been one of the most bland summers from a storm perspective I’ve ever seen in the GL. 

[Chinook]

3 hours ago, frostfern said:

This summer has been complete trash for organized storms.  No jet energy to speak of south of the Canadian border.  

The local heat islands / lake breeze convergence zones around Chicago and Detroit get some good afternoon stuff in an ultra-humid airmass with these weak fronts, but that’s about it.

I’m hoping for something like 2018 where late August into September gets active again.

Here's a piece of the overall weather situation this summer. And yes, it has been not very stormy at my place, not a lot of lightning, or severe thunderstorm warnings, even. The higher precipitable water is a very good reason why various areas of the country got more flash floods, and a few very bad ones. The severe storms have been lacking here. 500-300mb heights were too high. The jet stream missed us. Plus, I think, bad luck.