Torchageddon Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 7 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said: Really feel for those in the far north who apparently have missed out. Dare I say it - best climo ever? I may not be north enough to be considered far but I'm furious this rainy week will dim my spring jollies. The lack of sun is killing the mood. I don't buy this, but TWN doesn't give me a partly sunny day until Apr 21!!! With the last 3 weeks being mostly dark gloom, many of us near the lakes would go stark raving mad with a wem that bad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Garden variety wakeup showers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Looks like storms will mostly stay north and east today like yesterday. We'll give it another shot tomorrow with that next round. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Landscaping should really start popping this week with the breaks of sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 14 Author Share Posted April 14 +DR(-RN) under overcast skies with a lake breeze and a 37 temp. ISH! But it is April (mud month). Most of the snow is gone except for some piles, and large drifts here in town. Montreal River over on the WI/UP MI border flooding right now, too, closing roads/bridges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Trying to resist the urge to turn on the ac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: Trying to resist the urge to turn on the ac Turned ours on about 4 hours ago. After the clouds from the morning rain cleared, we shot up to 83 (predicted 77). We've hit the low 80's a couple of times, but without the dews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 quality ~3 inch soaker, remember the drought? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 The environment is now quite wet. I got another 0.83" overnight, boosting my April total to nearly 5 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Managed to scrounge up 0.54" from the early morning elevated leftovers. Brings April up to 4.78". Today/this evening has been looking like our best shot for heavy rains all along, and still looks that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Eeked out about 0.10" of rain yesterday from the heavy drizzle, and shwrs/stms that developed over the area. Was nice to have stms for a change. Geese have been trickling back into the area as well as flocks of tweety birds. No robin sightings yet, but that'll come soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Early data in for March. Another warm one. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 ORD had a low temp of 62° on April 13th, which tied the record high min temp for the date of 62° (1941). ORD received 2.43" of precip on April 14th, which broke the record precip total for the date of 1.21" (1949). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Another 0.45" this morning boosted my April total to 5.39". This is the most rain I've received in the first half of April in the last twenty years. Only four years in that period have full-month April totals higher than this year's first half. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Should get a round two of boomers late tonight. Not counting on anything svr, but perhaps some enjoyable night time acoustics. House windows have been opened the past couple of days and it’s been wonderful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Not surprised that there's a tornado warning north of Dixon. Those showers moved over here an hour or so ago and even when they were weak you could see everything had nice blocky bases. LCLs are pretty low in northern IL as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 12 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: quality ~3 inch soaker, remember the drought? Just got home last Saturday. We've had 0 precip out of all the systems that have rolled through here. The models have been forecasting 2-3 since last week. We're still pretty dry locally and below normal. To quote good 'ol Yukon.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Ready for more garden variety sleepers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Seems like most of the sub has seen as much or more precipitation in April then I have all year. (5.20” since January 1) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Another 0.66" this evening brings the total for today to 1.32", and 5.56" for April. Have had 5.97" since the last day of March. EDIT: Another 0.34" overnight brings April to 5.90". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 12 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: Seems like most of the sub has seen as much or more precipitation in April then I have all year. (5.20” since January 1) Looking at the TH co-op, they've only measured 2.69" YTD, but the CoCoRahs site at Flood Bay NE of town has 6.43". Other sites in the area around here are about the same or more. Issues there at the co-op. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Only 0.17" here from the broken line of storms last evening. My April total is 5.56". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 This is by far the nicest day since last Autumn. Zero wind and 64. The sun feels so good. lol The melt had been slow with cool temps and fog for the past week but has accelerated the past two days. Going to check out some waterfalls this weekend but will likely do it with some snow showers around. Measuring 32" off the driveway this afternoon... and going quick. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 great lakes water levels have been in decline for a while now, nice to see the great state of michigan getting wet and hope we can start filling the tubs again 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 60's - 70's away from lake. 30's-40's along the shore. Cold lake breeze. Top 5 warmth inland today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 barely hit 70 today, but plenty of showers/weak tstorms around. campus wx camera has a nice view: http://weather.eas.cmich.edu/current/webcam/2026-04-16-17-56.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Got this earlier as a cell crawled down from Clare. not a ton of lightning, but really crisp updrafts all around. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 s tier lake fog last 12 hours one of my fav times of year 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Bone dry here. no significant precip (a couple hundreths here and there) since the 5th/6th. Wind gets above 25 and we've got mini dust storms out here. Pretty crazy. Feels like a desert island. I've got grass that took off thats showing brown because its dry. Hopefully some relief overnight. Timing of these systems lately just suck. By the time they get here we're into overnight hours and lose all forcing. Had one setup (Sweetster hail) where storms trained N and S missing us completely. I could watch both lines from my porch as outflow winds blew through making small dustnado's. My well level is about 4ft below normal. I'm really getting fascinated by micro climates and if theres trends in certain small areas and if there are, what could be the causes. My current problem is not uncommon for this area. We shall see 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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