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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

The dust storm broke the kids windshield wiper. I get to go out and fix it at lunch.

That dust storm was mild, I could see like it was light fog. I wouldn't drive on the freeway though. Some of them get nasty, think white out condition, but just brown.

Edit: It's called a haboob. Say it. Haboob. It's a fun word.
 
It was 51º on my run this morning. When I stepped outside in my short sleeve shirt and tiny running shorts, I was tempted to go back in and put on a long sleeve shirt but I toughed it out.
 
I'm not ready or willing to close my windows. I think it was around 50 over night. I wore a wool sweater over my pj's and slept under a wool throw blanket. Cozy.
 
Been a very nice weather week so far here in Chicagoland and forecast to continue very nice through the rest of the week and the holiday weekend.

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It's the time of year when we mock the south and complain about humidity. It's over 100 still and the humidity is up to 40%!

Our lows are just now dipping into the 70s. Like 79.
 
It is 66º outside and 64º inside the house. This time of year I have the thermostat set to kick the heat on if the interior temperature reaches 60º. I always figure that's a safe temp to "set it and forget it" because there's no way it will ever be that chilly in the house in August. We may actually get there this evening!
 
At this point towards the end of the summer we usually start getting a bit of rain and some cooler weather but it's been very dry here and other than a few cold days a couple weeks ago, pretty warm too. I just went outside to bring up the garbage cans and there was a crew out cutting the neighbor's grass. I doubt the grass has grown much since it last got cut a couple weeks ago. All the were really accomplishing was sending up big clouds of dust and dirt.
 
It's a late Summer heat wave here in Chicagoland for today and the next forecasted week. Forecast to be a high of 90F around here tomorrow...and my son has an outdoor Marching Band competition tomorrow.

Yikes.

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It was cooler last week... but it looks like that has passed...

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And this is why we have a pool that stays open past Labor Day...
 
Awww...we're still hitting 100, but with only 47% humidity. Low in the 80s.

Yes the pool is still open if I can fix the damn pool vac.
 
It was so wet earlier in the year that I didn't need to use my sprinklers. I've had to turn them on a couple of times a week because my grass was getting crunchy. I'm dreading my next power and water bills.
 
Well here we go. Invest 94 looks like it will turn into Imelda before too long and just about all of the spaghetti models have landfall somewhere in my region. I'm the overnight EOC manager if it gets to that level. Sleeping on a cot in a fire station is not my favorite thing to do.
 
MD Planner said:
Well here we go. Invest 94 looks like it will turn into Imelda before too long and just about all of the spaghetti models have landfall somewhere in my region. I'm the overnight EOC manager if it gets to that level. Sleeping on a cot in a fire station is not my favorite thing to do.
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Thought about you (& a few other friends) in that region when I saw the spaghetti lines on the map.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
We went to a family wedding on Saturday and I wore a madras jacket and seersucker bowtie. Now I wish I would have gone with my seersucker jacket and a madras bowtie. I actually have a straw boater hat like the one in the photo but I'm pretty sure my wife and daughters would have made me sit far away from them if I had worn that too.
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I would not expect that post from anyone else.
 
I feel as if today is the unofficial (as in meteorological) first day of fall locally. I don't see any prospect of summer-like weather in the 10 day forecast which takes us to mid-month when fall colors will be near peak. It's functionally fall folks.
 
Maister said:
Sure the calendar might say September 22 is the first day of fall but the locals know better.
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It was 70º and muggy when I went running at 5:00 AM today. It started raining around 7:30 this morning on this side of the state and it's now 58º and the daily highs are expected to be much cooler than they have been in the 10 day forecast. Maybe my lawn will actually turn green again!

After being relatively nice, but dry, for most of the summer, the heat really got cranked up and things started to dry out towards the middle of August. My lawn has been a nice crispy brown for a long time now!
 
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