Another nice cool morning, temps in the mid 50's but mother nature starts cranking up the thermostat today. Still calling for 100 - 105 tomorrow with heat index near 110. There is a chance for some thunderstorms later tomorrow afternoon, fingers (and toes) crossed on that. 
The NWS has revised todays high to 104. The alltime record high in Indy is 106. 
It is already 88 @ 10:54 AM!
Seems the NWS revised our expected high temp down to 97, but right now in my back yard it's 96 with a 75 dew point, feels like South Florida. 
Still calling for a 20% chance of isolated thunderstorms later this afternoon, I'm hoping one parks over my house for awhile.
Officially hit 100 here in Chicago for the first time in 7 years. My backyard weather station recorded 101.5 with a dew point of 80 and a heat index of 118 mid afternoon, it was oppressive. A couple of storms did fire, one cell went north and another went south, left me stuck in the middle with nothing. 
Cooler today, only low 90's matter of fact, low to mid 90's forecast straight through the 4th. 30% chance of storms this afternoon and 40% chance tonight, any storm capable of producing torrential downpours (good) and golf ball size hail (not good)
Our outdoor temp probe peaked at 103.2 yesterday afternoon
Right now it's delightfully, heavily overcast, 75, and light occaisonal rain (< 0.1"/hour). Every blade of grass in my yard has joined together in a great green chorus. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
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Would like to help you out, Phil! When I emptied the gauges yesterday, 3". I'm still monitoring water for sick trees.
I don't think the rainfall was consistent for the whole area as it usually isn't in a city of our size.
Our high today was 102.5....down a bit from yesterday. We had an area of thunderstorms move in from the west yesterday evening. But missed us completely. Nary a drop of moisture did we get. Temperatures near or above 100 deg. are forecasted through next weekend.
Feel cooler now????
spd2demun wrote:
I see OH is in a State of Emergency with close to 1M w/o power! Hope Uni is OK up there. Anyone heard from him since Sat.?
We got more heavy rain this AM, expecting more; not complaining for now. Only 84 now!
Thanks for the concern Spd. I'm doing ok but only because I'm out in SD and home is part of the disaster/another story.
My son is taking care of our place along with the pets. He arrived right before the big storm hit which knocked many big trees down blocking the drive and wiping out the power lines. He said the 800' power line are snapped off of 3 poles laying on the ground under a mess of trees. Luckily he is well trained in using a chainsaw and cut himself out of the drive. Running my generator 24/7 with $40-$50 of gas per day. Also he can't run everything since only 5,500 watts. Smart kid, or I should say young man, and I explained how to wire a special cord I made up to connect to the 220V water well submersible pump box so at least he has water.
A buddy of his went to my place last night and they got up on the roof to clear all the big limbs/tree debris off. And at least I still had a hardline phone to talk to him and he had the living room TV/STB/RG working off of the generator. That changed real quick last night about 8pm when another big storm rolled in and took the AT&T phone/UV service out. He's ticked and can't even use the internet for texting. He rebooted everything, w/o success, and the lines must be down. Getting ready to spend a bunch of time talking to TS and who knows if they'll even come out to fix the lines.
Bummer situation all around and they're calling for more storms which is just great....
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
 93° F | 70° F
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93° F | 72° F
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95° F | 72° F
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 91° F | 68° F
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 93° F | 72° F
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| Chance of T-storms
20% chance of precipitation
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Chance of T-storms
30% chance of precipitation
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Chance of T-storms
30% chance of precipitation
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Partly Cloudy | Clear |
Escapee wrote:
Yesterday 106. Noting more to say. Been watering my moss under the trees. It looks like it is filling in the spaces between clumps. If you think grass grows slow try growing moss.
Love it!! 
Do you still have any moss after those 100+ temps??
Peeps!! 
Sorry to hear about all the damage you had Uni and glad no one was hurt. This weather's been crazy...luckily we haven't had any of those storms...yet. Take care!! You have a good son there. 
