August 2025 General Discussion

[TheClimateChanger]

Couple of nice looking storm cells out there tonight. One near Rose City, Michigan, south of Huron National Forest, and one northwest of London, Ontario.

 

[Geoboy645]

2 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

The WPC has a moderate chance for excessive rainfall across southeast Iowa, nw Illinois, and southern Wisconsin this weekend.  The forecast has widespread 3-5+ inches across that area.  The discussion even mentions isolated 9" totals are possible.  DVN thinks 10" is possible.

Yeah I'm definitely worried for some potentially significant flooding somewhere in S or SW WI. While it hasn't been as wet as most of IA over the last 30 days, it's still been wet enough to cause concerns even without some of the more extreme totals that models have put out. SW to NE is a bad direction for precip maxes in regards to the drainage network in this part of the state. And 6-10 inches of rain in a night would be very bad news for really any drainage around here.

[Chicago Storm]

Peaked at 92° at ORD and 93° at MDW today.

...2025 90°+ Day Tally...
24 - ORD
24 - MDW
24 - DPA
23 - PWK
22 - ARR
19 - RFD
19 - LOT
14 - UGN

[CheeselandSkies]

CAMs (18Z 3K NAM/0Z HRRR) aren't too enthused about much more than garden variety tomorrow. EHI is pretty low. SPC may have been over-optimistic expanding the slight risk into all of S. WI and adding a 2% tornado contour.

Edit: 0Z 3K NAM is quite a bit more aggressive than the previous couple of runs. Hard to pin anything down with such lack of agreement/consistency.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Biggest hailstones imby since we bought our house in 2018. Did not like the sounds coming off my roof at 5am this morning. 0.59” precipitation with the storm.

 

KMSP 091012Z 18015G22KT 1SM R30L/4500VP6000FT +TSGRRA FEW021 BKN030CB OVC050 22/19 A2984 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT ALQDS GRB12 GR 1/2 TS OHD MOV NE P0036 T02170189

[TheClimateChanger]

Heat is certainly the big story today. 

At Muskegon, Michigan, the temperature soared to a new daily record of 91F yesterday, surpassing the previous record high of 90F, set in 1900, 1901, and 1941.

Across Michigan, a number of stations exceeded 90F yesterday, with readings as high as 93F at Traverse City, Benton Harbor, and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Pottawatomi Tribal Soil & Climate Analysis Network station.

The point-click forecast for Cherry Capital Airport is 97F today! This would break a daily record and come within striking distance of the monthly high of 100F. Certainly stay cool out there in northern Michigan!

 

[Brian D]

Early data in for July. Warmer one in the books after a string of near avg in recent years. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.