June 2026 General Discussion

[Brian D]

Early data in for May. Cooler one this year, but a warmer Spring overall. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively. 

[Torchageddon]

It is a blister of a day out there, the humidity after this dry spell feels like the sky is drubbing you! 29C/84F with a humidex of 38 likely, wow. I foresaw a delay of possible storms til after 5pm and TWN revised their rain from 25-30 to 5mm in line with WUN.

[cyclone77]

First day of the summer with mid 70 dews all day.  Definitely not used to it quite yet.

[Brian D]

Fog lifted for a while today. Sun came out, and it was beautiful, and muggy for a couple hrs before the fog returned, and temps cooled off. 

[Torchageddon]

There were some bands of virga with nearly nothing so no 10mm at 5pm, now its 9 where I was suppose to get heavy storms; I see overcast and now light showers . For nearly a week out 2 agencies forecasting storms all aft and eve, and I don't even hear thunder. Storms nixed for Weds as well. I love these busts.

[Brian D]

0.02" of rain this morning. Later this evening should net a little more. Hoping for some robust stms. Mid 40's n fog this morning.

[hawkeye_wx]

This week of high heat (DVN, a few days ago, had several days in the 90s, maxing at 96 today) is a bust.  Monday-Wednesday we reached 80, 88, 83, with the rest of the week likely not even reaching 80.

[hawkeye_wx]

I got a quick half inch from the line racing northeastward out of Iowa.  The wind was gusty, but below severe.

[mjwise]

First 90 of the year for Chicago today.

[A-L-E-K]

3 minutes ago, mjwise said:

First 90 of the year for Chicago today.

Feels like it

[OrdIowPitMsp]

0.17” of precipitation is all we could muster from the overnight cluster. Storms fired east of town today. Can’t reel one in this year.

 

At least we got our first 90 of the year as a consolation prize, endless 70s in the extended. 

[cyclone77]

Picked up 0.06" from light anvil rain earlier.  

[Chinook]

My place got to 92 with a heat index of 101 today

Yesterday: several showers and thunderstorms hit my place. It was the most rain since early May, I believe.

[mjwise]

4 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

This week of high heat (DVN, a few days ago, had several days in the 90s, maxing at 96 today) is a bust.  Monday-Wednesday we reached 80, 88, 83, with the rest of the week likely not even reaching 80.

This was an NBM issue. The ensemble runs (both EPS and GEFS were doing it) as of Wed-Thurs last week were forecasting the development of a stout 588-591 dam ridge centered over eastern IA and western IL between Tuesday and Saturday of this week but then there were big changes across the ensembles by Saturday to a much more progressive pattern. The NBM apparently doesn't like big changes developing in the ensembles between days 5-8 and tried to "correct" what it saw as an error on its own. The extended forecast grids for our area were a mess for a couple of days because I don't think the local offices are supposed to alter the extended forecasts anymore from what NBM generates.

[Brian D]

Fog lifted for a couple hrs this morning, and the sun came out jacking temps into the upper 60's, then the fog returned with temps in the low 50's. Fog has lifted this evening with some showers moving thru. It'll be back tonight. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

2 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

0.17” of precipitation is all we could muster from the overnight cluster. Storms fired east of town today. Can’t reel one in this year.

 

At least we got our first 90 of the year as a consolation prize, endless 70s in the extended. 

Missed a bunch of overnight rainfall on the obs. We’ve had 0.57” today