July 2026 General Discussion

[cyclone77]

Forrest Gump voice...and just like that, another rapid onset drought was forecast.

 

[WestMichigan]

8 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

 

 

Severe or not, just bring some rain.

[A-L-E-K]

1 hour ago, WestMichigan said:

Severe or not, just bring some rain.

 

 

[Brian D]

Temps stayed in the mid/upper 70's yesterday. Point has backed off the heat for the weekend. Screw the heat, just bring some good stms  

[Brian D]

Temps in the mid/upper 70's again yesterday. Stms petered out as they moved E. They did get decent rain to the N & W tho. As the heat builds this weekend. Looks like the Lake will help keep things a little cooler. Point has upper 80's for me, but that cast hasn't been reliable. Inland areas may get there. 

[A-L-E-K]

S tier Saturday 

[Chinook]

119 heat index at Topeka, Kansas

[Brian D]

6 hours ago, Brian D said:

Temps in the mid/upper 70's again yesterday. Stms petered out as they moved E. They did get decent rain to the N & W tho. As the heat builds this weekend. Looks like the Lake will help keep things a little cooler. Point has upper 80's for me, but that cast hasn't been reliable. Inland areas may get there. 

As expected. Highs hovering around 80 in the area. Point fail.

 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Point had us up to 94 today, low stratus hung around a lot longer than expected and we briefly topped out at 86.

[cyclone77]

Sioux City ASOS site hit 83 degree dewpoint earlier this evening, and hit 119 for heat index.  Tremendous pool of 80+ degree dews  from southwest MN down into northeastern KS.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Rapid City, SD set their all time record high temperature at both its recording stations today with records going back to 1888. 

112 at KRAP, 110 downtown. 

[MidwestChaser]

16 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

112 at KRAP, 110 downtown.

Don't be so mean.

[Spartman]

14 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Point had us up to 94 today, low stratus hung around a lot longer than expected and we briefly topped out at 86.

Had us up to the mid-80s, but only topped out at 80 here. Expected to be up to 86 tomorrow, though TWC/Wunderground is conservative with 81 due to anticipated stratus and solid cloud cover to finish the weekend.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

8 hours ago, MidwestChaser said:

Don't be so mean.

Should I post the weather observations from KSUX instead?

[Brian D]

Cloudy morning. Suppose to be sunny today with stms tonight. Heat adv out. DLH is under Heat warning. Yesterday was 80 with a 70 dew. Muggy, but comfortable. We'll see if it warms more today. Point has 82. 

[Chicago Storm]

It’s currently 98/85/130 in Belleville, IL.

[cyclone77]

Dew of 83 here earlier.  Currently sitting at 92/82/115.

[A-L-E-K]

Whole city was at the beach

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Dewpoint mixed out into the mid 60s so we had easy today even with a high of 98. 

[hawkeye_wx]

Burlington is 92/85/120

Ames is 92/86/123

This is as high as the dew point ever gets around here.  It's only 83 here.  

[Torchageddon]

Had a great day here of 29C/84F started overcast here too then it broke at 130pm. No rain or storms as shown by some - I think smoke is moving in this eve that was a close call! I was forest bathing and breathing in deeply after that nightmare 2 weeks ago.

[A-L-E-K]

Juice

 

[beavis1729]

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

Juice

 

Not sure how accurate it is, but Kennett’s ob at 1:35 pm local time was 97/88/136.

Dew is up to 80 in Rockford and 76 here. 

[DaveNay]

I picked a bad day for baling hay. I think I lost 10lbs water weight.

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[GaWx]

From an Evansville, IN, pro-met 

These were the observations at Evansville, IN for 4-5-6pm on July 26, 2026.

The dew point readings were 80-80 and 81.

The 81 deg. F dewpoint tied the record for highest dew point in history at this location. It happened on 4 previous occasions.

[Brian D]

Peaked 85/76/95 here in town today. Muggy! Cloudy most of the day, but when the sun did peak out temp jumped. Midday, then again during the evening. Some shwrs/stms passed thru, but not much fell. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

82/81 at MSP this morning. Here’s a tidbit from KMPX

 

At 2 AM, the dew point at MSP climbed to 81. This has only
happened on a few days in recorded history. Per the Minnesota
State Climatology Office, an 81 degree dew point was measured
on July 17, 2011; July 18, 2011; July 19, 2011; and July 30,
1999. The all-time record is 82 set back on July 19, 2011.

 

[BeastFromTheEast]

Average highs start dropping now at ORD. The slow March towards fall has begun 

[Brian D]

Breezy Lake winds today. Actually feels nice. Looks like 0.02"-0.83" of rain around TH from last night. 

[Chicago Storm]

Average highs start dropping now at ORD. The slow March towards fall has begun 

keep this negativity out of my thread.