nvck Posted Wednesday at 08:36 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:36 PM 4 hours ago, WestMichigan said: I guess pleasant is relative. This is from SW Alaska. Personally I would agree with you though. crazy how perspectives on heat vary so much / change so quickly. coming out of the winter, first 70 degree day of the spring is usually pretty jarring, feels *hot* in the direct sun. after a few months of that, though, the 82 degree high here today felt super pleasant, even in direct sun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Wednesday at 10:22 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:22 PM 91 yesterday, same today. Hopefully that rain materializes tomorrow night into Friday. We need it badly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted Thursday at 04:31 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:31 AM Squeaked out an 80/70 this aftrn. Comfortably warm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Thursday at 12:44 PM Share Posted Thursday at 12:44 PM the way short term models are bouncing around with the track of the slp for fri/sat reminds me a lot of a clipper 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted Thursday at 07:12 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:12 PM If the EPS mean pans out, it will be a record or near-record SLP for August as it is sliding across central Illinois. Record in that area is 1001-1002mb and EPS mean is hovering around that. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/AugustRecordLowSLPs.gif 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted Thursday at 10:35 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:35 PM 85/71/90 this aftrn. Muggy. Hoping for stms later. Lake is getting warmer. The light SSW wind today (5-15 mph) bringing in some Lake air, but not really affecting temps as much now. 10C/50F offshore to 16C/61F down near DLH. Still cool, but warmer air is able to overwhelm near lake surface air temp easier now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted Friday at 02:01 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:01 PM Rain incoming. Hopefully a soaker this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted Friday at 04:07 PM Share Posted Friday at 04:07 PM The Cedar Rapids area was the bulls-eye this morning. 2-3" of rain fell across the city. My total is 2.70". Up to 4" fell just east of the city. It was just pure heavy rain with no thunder. I love mornings like this. A few spots could get another 1-2" later today and tonight. July has been dry, but today's rain doubled my monthly total and we are now above avg. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Friday at 04:09 PM Share Posted Friday at 04:09 PM stackin'^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Friday at 05:12 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:12 PM Mid 60s and steady stratiform rain all day, with over an inch so far. It had been over 3 weeks since we’ve seen any substantial precipitation here. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted Friday at 05:19 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:19 PM 1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said: The Cedar Rapids area was the bulls-eye this morning. 2-3" of rain fell across the city. Up to 4" fell just east of the city. It was just pure heavy rain with no thunder. I love mornings like this. A few spots could get another 1-2" later today and tonight. July has been dry, but today's rain doubled my monthly total and we are now above avg. Shocker lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted Friday at 05:29 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:29 PM Any prospects for meaningful rain in Droughtville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted Friday at 08:17 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:17 PM Cue Spartman's weekend washout post 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted Friday at 08:25 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:25 PM I’m going to cosplay this cut off low as a weak tropical storm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted yesterday at 12:12 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:12 AM 1.53” of rain. Slow deep soak. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted yesterday at 12:19 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:19 AM 7 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: Mid 60s and steady stratiform rain all day, with over an inch so far. It had been over 3 weeks since we’ve seen any substantial precipitation here. Hope you read this afternoon's AFD for your area, especially when they mention November and the earliest Twin Cities snowfall on record in there: .DISCUSSION... Issued at 303 PM CDT Fri Jul 31 2026 If I showed you the current water vapor satellite imagery and asked you what date you thought this was from, I would not blame you if you said November. There is a nice baroclinic leaf across the upper MS valley into the western Great Lakes and a dry slot moving across northeast KS into southeast MN. Although today has been a washout and a rather crummy weather day, we haven`t heard too many complaints coming out of a 2 week stretch where most places saw less than a quarter of an inch of rain with highs frequently topping out in the 90s. We`ve seen some impressive rainfall totals today and have seen the gauges to backup the MRMS rainfall estimate bullseye of 6-8" of rain down around St. Peter and Le Sueur. Despite some rather larger rainfall numbers, this rain has come over a period of of 12 hours, not in just 3 or 4 hours, which means impacts from this rainfall (in terms of flooding) have been fairly minimal. Even though this heavy rainfall fell almost entirely within the MN River Basin, rises along the river are expected to remain within the stream banks. No matter how you slice it, this was an incredibly beneficial rain that has come with very few negative impacts. For the weekend, we will not accept any complaints about the weather! We`ll have rising heights and subsidence, which means mostly sunny skies with temepratures near normal and dewpoints retreating into the 50s and 60s. There has been some concern about smoky skies returning, but visible satellite imagery this afternoon looks pretty clean from the Dakotas back across Wyoming and Montana, so even chances for elevated smoke look pretty limited this weekend as well. Get out there and enjoy the outdoors this weekend, we`re only 54 days away from the earliest snowfall on record here in the Twin Cities! (September 24, 1985) We`ll start next week with a cold front dropping across the area Monday night through Tuesday morning. Right now, we look to miss- time this front. We`ll be getting the leftovers of whatever happens in the Dakotas and northwest MN Monday afternoon late Monday night in central/western MN, while the front should be far enough along Tuesday afternoon to where we`ll be too far west to see any storms that form with daytime heating on Tuesday. Behind this front, we`ll get another hit of pleasant Canadian air for the middle of next week. They seem to be passing what will evolve into the cutoff low as a fall-like storm. A bit early for this kind of stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted yesterday at 03:06 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:06 AM @Spartmanentetaining read today for sure. After a long stretch of boring weather it’s nice to have an active forecast discussion. Joe Strus wrote the afternoon discussion, he seems to be winter weenie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmillzz Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 14 hours ago, Spartman said: Hope you read this afternoon's AFD for your area, especially when they mention November and the earliest Twin Cities snowfall on record in there: .DISCUSSION... Issued at 303 PM CDT Fri Jul 31 2026 If I showed you the current water vapor satellite imagery and asked you what date you thought this was from, I would not blame you if you said November. There is a nice baroclinic leaf across the upper MS valley into the western Great Lakes and a dry slot moving across northeast KS into southeast MN. Although today has been a washout and a rather crummy weather day, we haven`t heard too many complaints coming out of a 2 week stretch where most places saw less than a quarter of an inch of rain with highs frequently topping out in the 90s. We`ve seen some impressive rainfall totals today and have seen the gauges to backup the MRMS rainfall estimate bullseye of 6-8" of rain down around St. Peter and Le Sueur. Despite some rather larger rainfall numbers, this rain has come over a period of of 12 hours, not in just 3 or 4 hours, which means impacts from this rainfall (in terms of flooding) have been fairly minimal. Even though this heavy rainfall fell almost entirely within the MN River Basin, rises along the river are expected to remain within the stream banks. No matter how you slice it, this was an incredibly beneficial rain that has come with very few negative impacts. For the weekend, we will not accept any complaints about the weather! We`ll have rising heights and subsidence, which means mostly sunny skies with temepratures near normal and dewpoints retreating into the 50s and 60s. There has been some concern about smoky skies returning, but visible satellite imagery this afternoon looks pretty clean from the Dakotas back across Wyoming and Montana, so even chances for elevated smoke look pretty limited this weekend as well. Get out there and enjoy the outdoors this weekend, we`re only 54 days away from the earliest snowfall on record here in the Twin Cities! (September 24, 1985) We`ll start next week with a cold front dropping across the area Monday night through Tuesday morning. Right now, we look to miss- time this front. We`ll be getting the leftovers of whatever happens in the Dakotas and northwest MN Monday afternoon late Monday night in central/western MN, while the front should be far enough along Tuesday afternoon to where we`ll be too far west to see any storms that form with daytime heating on Tuesday. Behind this front, we`ll get another hit of pleasant Canadian air for the middle of next week. They seem to be passing what will evolve into the cutoff low as a fall-like storm. A bit early for this kind of stuff. The bigger story is that July 2026 ended as the sixth warmest July on record at MSP, which is especially notable given the ongoing, strengthening Nino. Bringing up the earliest snowfall on record isn’t relevant and doesn’t feel appropriate to add in the discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago DLH had an avg July temp of 71.1. Tied 4th with 2019. Very warm! Out of 80 unique temps recorded since 1874, midpoint temp is 66.0. PWS near old wx bureau site had 71.8, which would have been 2nd. DLH picked up 2.41" of rain yesterday. 4.69" for the month. That put them above avg by 0.77". Just as a side note, DLH has missing data for the 27th & 28th. But, NWS obs map has data for DLH on those days, so a reporting error there. I've included the data in this analysis. But in contrast, TH coop had a avg temp of 63.2. That tied 45th warmest out of 73 unique temps since 1894. Midpoint temp is 64.2. Much cooler along the shoreline. 2.49" of precip fell short of avg (4.05"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted 59 minutes ago Share Posted 59 minutes ago Right at normal for the month, temp-wise 000 CXUS51 KILN 010528 CF6DAY PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) STATION: DAYTON OH MONTH: JULY YEAR: 2026 LATITUDE: 39 54 N LONGITUDE: 84 12 W TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND ================================================================================ 1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12Z AVG MX 2MIN DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR ================================================================================ 1 93 73 83 7 0 18 0.00 0.0 0 7.9 16 260 M M 1 1 23 210 2 92 73 83 7 0 18 0.00 0.0 0 6.4 15 210 M M 3 21 280 3 94 74 84 8 0 19 0.00 0.0 0 6.1 29 280 M M 4 35 270 4 92 72 82 6 0 17 0.05 0.0 0 7.6 20 250 M M 7 13 26 260 5 86 69 78 2 0 13 0.00 0.0 0 6.5 14 310 M M 7 1 19 300 6 84 70 77 1 0 12 0.00 0.0 0 7.1 14 20 M M 6 1 18 330 7 85 69 77 1 0 12 0.00 0.0 0 7.3 13 20 M M 7 1 28 20 8 88 67 78 2 0 13 0.00 0.0 0 3.5 10 350 M M 7 1 15 80 9 88 71 80 4 0 15 0.00 0.0 0 8.1 18 260 M M 7 3 32 290 10 88 69 79 3 0 14 1.00 0.0 0 8.4 36 20 M M 8 13 50 360 11 77 67 72 -4 0 7 0.78 0.0 0 4.9 15 100 M M 9 13 18 120 12 85 66 76 0 0 11 0.00 0.0 0 8.3 18 40 M M 5 1 23 40 13 87 64 76 0 0 11 0.00 0.0 0 7.2 15 10 M M 2 26 20 14 89 66 78 2 0 13 0.00 0.0 0 3.3 8 330 M M 2 12 10 15 89 69 79 3 0 14 0.00 0.0 0 5.4 12 260 M M 2 15 260 16 91 72 82 6 0 17 0.00 0.0 0 6.3 13 310 M M 5 8 21 310 17 92 72 82 6 0 17 0.42 0.0 0 6.1 21 260 M M 8 138 24 250 18 89 72 81 5 0 16 0.44 0.0 0 10.8 32 330 M M 7 13 47 330 19 81 65 73 -3 0 8 0.00 0.0 0 7.6 14 30 M M 4 18 17 30 20 84 60 72 -4 0 7 0.00 0.0 0 5.7 10 260 M M 5 18 15 270 21 88 71 80 4 0 15 0.13 0.0 0 13.2 24 260 M M 7 13 33 250 22 72 59 66 -10 0 1 0.00 0.0 0 7.8 16 360 M M 5 21 10 23 75 54 65 -11 0 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.8 13 30 M M 3 16 20 24 76 56 66 -10 0 1 0.00 0.0 0 5.0 12 40 M M 7 17 100 25 80 59 70 -6 0 5 0.00 0.0 0 4.2 14 250 M M 4 19 240 26 81 65 73 -3 0 8 0.00 0.0 0 6.0 12 230 M M 8 1 15 240 27 85 66 76 0 0 11 0.17 0.0 0 7.5 31 300 M M 5 13 45 280 28 83 68 76 0 0 11 0.00 0.0 0 10.0 21 350 M M 7 1 27 340 29 80 64 72 -4 0 7 0.00 0.0 0 7.9 16 30 M M 4 1 21 30 30 84 59 72 -4 0 7 0.00 0.0 0 4.6 13 340 M M 2 18 10 31 86 64 75 -1 0 10 0.00 0.0 0 3.5 13 150 M M 6 18 160 ================================================================================ SM 2644 2065 0 348 2.99 0.0 209.0 M 164 ================================================================================ AV 85.3 66.6 6.7 FASTST M M 5 MAX(MPH) MISC ----> 36 20 50 360 ================================================================================ NOTES: # LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H. PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2 STATION: DAYTON OH MONTH: JULY YEAR: 2026 LATITUDE: 39 54 N LONGITUDE: 84 12 W [TEMPERATURE DATA] [PRECIPITATION DATA] SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16 AVERAGE MONTHLY: 76.0 TOTAL FOR MONTH: 2.99 1 = FOG OR MIST DPTR FM NORMAL: 0.0 DPTR FM NORMAL: -0.96 2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY HIGHEST: 94 ON 3 GRTST 24HR 1.78 ON 10-11 TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS LOWEST: 54 ON 23 3 = THUNDER SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL 4 = ICE PELLETS TOTAL MONTH: 0.0 INCH 5 = HAIL GRTST 24HR 0.0 6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE GRTST DEPTH: 0 7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM: VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS 8 = SMOKE OR HAZE [NO. OF DAYS WITH] [WEATHER - DAYS WITH] 9 = BLOWING SNOW X = TORNADO MAX 32 OR BELOW: 0 0.01 INCH OR MORE: 7 MAX 90 OR ABOVE: 6 0.10 INCH OR MORE: 6 MIN 32 OR BELOW: 0 0.50 INCH OR MORE: 2 MIN 0 OR BELOW: 0 1.00 INCH OR MORE: 1 [HDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 0 CLEAR (SCALE 0-3) 7 DPTR FM NORMAL 0 PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7) 22 TOTAL FM JUL 1 0 CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10) 2 DPTR FM NORMAL 0 [CDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 348 DPTR FM NORMAL 7 [PRESSURE DATA] TOTAL FM JAN 1 651 HIGHEST SLP M ON M DPTR FM NORMAL -43 LOWEST SLP 28.98 ON 30 [REMARKS] #FINAL-07-26# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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