May 2026 General Discussion

[Chicago916]

Storm means business. Really strong winds and momentarily lost power. 

[cyclone77]

Just 0.17" here early this morning.  0.59" 3 day total.

[Torchageddon]

Now 31C, humidex 32. If I make it to 30C again tomorrow I'd call that a heatwave locally as 30 is my benchmark not 33 (climo diff). Under a svr t-storm watch.

Last night's storm wasn't anything special, 90 strikes with some offkey thunder at times. 3.5mm of rain another low one. It looked like it was drying up before the night was over!

[hawkeye_wx]

The Friday-Monday warmth has been underwhelming.  DVN had every day in the 85-87º range, but we've come up a few to several degrees short each day.  Today's it's only in the mid 70s.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

MSP picked up 1.15” of very much needed precipitation yesterday. 2026 total stands at 7.88” 

Thats 14.6% of our year to date precipitation. 

[cyclone77]

Looks like tonight will be night number 4 with storms dying out before reaching here.  

Hopefully meaningful rains return in June.

[hawkeye_wx]

The CAMs were wrong about everything getting stuck in Missouri and nothing getting up here.  There were no strong storms around here, so in that regard the weekend was a dud.  However, another round of solid rain dropped 0.64" in my yard overnight.  Four decent rounds of rain through the weekend added up to 1.86".  The rest of the month is looking drier and fairly boring again.

[cyclone77]

0.22" early this morning to bring the 4-day system total to 0.81".  

Seems like we have a yo-yo going on here with the moisture.  Slammed in April with 7+ inches, this month will likely end up around 1 inch.  Hopefully in June we can get another 7-8" to make up for May.