August 2025 General Discussion

[cyclone77]

Picked up 0.00" of rain here.  1.04" for the month.

One last crack at it tomorrow night, and then it looks pretty dry until the end of the month.

[A-L-E-K]

looks like some more rain/storm chances this afternoon before we dry out for a bit again

[roardog]

We have some of the bluest sky I’ve seen in a long time here. A nice Canadian airmass with no smoke. It was down into the low 50s last night and should get to the mid 70s today with dewpoints in the 50s. It’s in the low 60s now with a breeze. It has a September feel to the air. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

1” of rain Saturday 

1” of rain last evening.

 

[madwx]

about 24-36 hours of humid, tropical air.  This upcoming weekend should feel very refreshing

[sbnwx85]

Solid garden variety storm

[TheClimateChanger]

Wow! This is incredible... I haven't seen anything like this in a LONG time:

[A-L-E-K]

nice time of year for it

[Geoboy645]

It's been a couple years since we have had our late August first cool wave. Definitely will feel nice (smoke not withstanding) after this humid summer.

[frostfern]

So boring.

[CheeselandSkies]

20 years ago OTD. Copy/pasted from my YouTube description:

On August 18th, 2005, Wisconsin experienced what still stands as its record single-day tornado outbreak, with 27 occurring in the state. The most significant of these was a high-end F3 which tracked for 20 miles through residential subdivisions on the northern edge of the city of Stoughton, in southeastern Dane County. The house where my parents and I lived at the time (and they still do) is in one of these subdivisions. The tornado missed us by less than 1/4 of a mile, and the one man who died in it (I believe still the last tornado-related fatality in southern Wisconsin to date) lived on the opposite end of the same subdivision.

I was 19 at the time and about to start my sophomore year in college. I had long had a fascination with severe weather and tornadoes from childhood and intended to take up storm chasing at some point. For a long time I was angry at myself for not being more prepared on this day and ready to get better footage (a quick YouTube search will unveil the many incredible videos which exist of this tornado, captured by several people who lived not far away). I felt like the atmosphere had tried to hand me the ultimate "backyard chase" and I botched it. You never actually see the tornado itself, just debris falling out of the sky beneath violently churning clouds over our house before I ran for cover (portions of the audio muted because I was shouting like an idiot), and then the structure on the back edge of the supercell thunderstorm after it had moved off and was producing a series of weaker tornadoes north of Lake Koshkonong/west of Fort Atkinson.

Most of this footage has never been seen before on YouTube. I had the damage tour section on my old channel, uploaded about a year and a half after the fact in YT's old, lousy 240p resolution, but that was about it.
 

Attachment space limits are too tight here, but damage photos are on TW for anyone else who's a member of both:

https://talkweather.com/threads/tornado-anniversaries.2250/page-11