Remarkably informative! Thank you! Unfortunately, we've been enduring an insufferable wet and stormy spring this year. Following a second extremely wet (albeit warm winter). It's currently the second wettest (and soon likely wettest) Spring on record going back to 1870! Climate change has definitely made the upper great lakes region much wetter over the last decades. At least our winters remain crappy, and with increasing intrusions of bitter cold polar vortexes😝. Last year's warm and mild drought was an amazing, wonderful reprieve from the multidecadal wet pattern. Maybe I'd be happier in a semiarid or desert climate where rain is a welcome treat. 🤔
Yes. It’s been very very dry here where the fronts have continually delivered zero precip in nw Illinois along the river. Been this way all spring here. Lots of dry winds and no humidity lately.
While listening to one of the meteorologists feed yesterday, they noted that there was a dust storm warning for areas around Bloomington IL, looks like where the break in that storm line was located. They couldn't figure out why there was a dust storm.
Big storms should be over soon. Up in Canada, boreal fires are going out and the strong, early warm up of the Arctic/North Atlantic is looking like a wipeout for the iceberg tourist business. Once they reach stasis, it'll be time for the Pacific to wash in with a more zonal pattern.
At 6:50ish: The map shows the dryness in the west. You mention that as if was a normal season? The map legend shows percentage of normal ("% of Normal"). The west, and almost all of it, is showing, as per the legend, at 0-10"% OF Normal". That seems significant. Not normal?
Northern IL we do have locally dry air. South of Rock Falls has been very dusty this last week, at times visibility under a quarter mile on the road. I've seen a couple irrigators going and was getting read to run some of ours if we missed the rain. We have some fields with 2in or less received since May 1.
This splitting of the front is not a new thing for me east of Peoria. Have seen this all my 50 years of living here. I still think there is an elevation change as you cross Illinois River that requires lift of fronts wringing water out to move due east.🤔
Remarkably informative! Thank you! Unfortunately, we've been enduring an insufferable wet and stormy spring this year. Following a second extremely wet (albeit warm winter). It's currently the second wettest (and soon likely wettest) Spring on record going back to 1870! Climate change has definitely made the upper great lakes region much wetter over the last decades. At least our winters remain crappy, and with increasing intrusions of bitter cold polar vortexes😝. Last year's warm and mild drought was an amazing, wonderful reprieve from the multidecadal wet pattern. Maybe I'd be happier in a semiarid or desert climate where rain is a welcome treat. 🤔
Yes. It’s been very very dry here where the fronts have continually delivered zero precip in nw Illinois along the river. Been this way all spring here. Lots of dry winds and no humidity lately.
Reminds me of last year
While listening to one of the meteorologists feed yesterday, they noted that there was a dust storm warning for areas around Bloomington IL, looks like where the break in that storm line was located. They couldn't figure out why there was a dust storm.
Big storms should be over soon. Up in Canada, boreal fires are going out and the strong, early warm up of the Arctic/North Atlantic is looking like a wipeout for the iceberg tourist business. Once they reach stasis, it'll be time for the Pacific to wash in with a more zonal pattern.
Very happy to have yesterday's system split and go around us in NE MO. Still waiting on it to dry out to finish planting
At 6:50ish: The map shows the dryness in the west. You mention that as if was a normal season? The map legend shows percentage of normal ("% of Normal"). The west, and almost all of it, is showing, as per the legend, at 0-10"% OF Normal". That seems significant. Not normal?
normal is nearly 0 so any rain would instantly be over 100%. So these maps aren't too useful on the dry side for some western regions.
thanks again for the update!!!!!
Northern IL we do have locally dry air. South of Rock Falls has been very dusty this last week, at times visibility under a quarter mile on the road. I've seen a couple irrigators going and was getting read to run some of ours if we missed the rain. We have some fields with 2in or less received since May 1.
This splitting of the front is not a new thing for me east of Peoria. Have seen this all my 50 years of living here. I still think there is an elevation change as you cross Illinois River that requires lift of fronts wringing water out to move due east.🤔