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Good morning from the "Valley of the Sun" where it is a very warm 83F. I must say, it feels nice to have slept on my own bed but the 2 hour time difference had me waking up around 3:00am! Needless to say, I feel much better after driving over 1,900 miles the past 3 days. While I do enjoy road trips, I think I'm going to take it easy for a while. When I was driving through our country this past month, I was struck by how much diversity it has and how much land there is. You really don't get the real picture sitting at home or watching it on TV. I encourage everyone to take a road trip whenever possible to see our beautiful land of the USA. We are truly blessed to have such an enormous amount of land and places to see. I pretty much drove through all the different regions of our Sub Forum, except for our members up north which is my goal by the end of this year. Now I have a sense of what it is like living in your regions during the Summer. I intend on taking a road trip this Fall or Winter (TBD) up north. At this time, it is 5:28am and daylight has emerged...sun rise is at 5:46am.

The map is absolutely littered with tornado warnings.

Some of the damage

Just had a quick 1/2 inch of rain in 15 minutes and 70mph winds here in Fremont, Ne.

That was a scary 15 minutes. As the Tornado warning was issued the shelf cloud approaching me from the west looked like it meant business. I didn't even dare take the time snap a quick picture before rushing down to the basement. Aside from the city tornado siren going it was earily calm and quite before the rain and wind arrived. I haven't heard if a tornado actually touched down or not, but I think a funnel cloud report prompted the warning according to the news warning.

5.1 earthquake in North Carolina this morning. Epicenter was about 40 miles from a small piece of mountain property my brother owns.

Numerous funnels and a confirmed tornado near my area. I just got 5 minutes of heavy rain.

it was wet microburst for sure.

Once again, it looks like Cedar Rapids is getting screwed. We got missed this morning with all of the thunderstorms going north of here. The same thing seems to be happening now with more storms to the north. It hasn't rained here since July 21, this is getting ridiculous. Illinois is the only state now in the midwest that is not under some sort of drought.

Wow, looks like quite a bit of damage in the Fremont area... I received a notification for the Severe Thunderstorm Warning on my phone for Douglas County for possible 75 MPH winds, however that storm collapsed as it moved east so I am wondering if the severe winds in Fremont were caused by a wet microburst? Picked up .20 of rain from the showers and storms that moved through my backyard this morning. For another 20% chance of rain, I will take it... even though we need a lot more.

06z NAM 3km showing multiple MCS's traversing IA/IL later today into tomorrow...

Today will be the first day of above average mean temperatures after 10 days in a row of below average. The official overnight low at GRR was 69 and here at my house it was 70. At this time it is 75 here at my house with a DP of 68. The 8 am reading at GRR was 75 with a DP of 67.

Yep. Put some burgers and chicken on the Green Mountain Pellet Grill. Faces the sun. It was unpleasant. Still 87/97 with a 74 dew. Only 3 weeks till September.

18z GFS just took a crap on the Fourth. Overcast in the valley with highs struggling to break 70. It’s going to verify. Just watch.