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`The power is now back on here at my house. There are a lot of trees down in the Grand Rapids area and that brought down a lot of power lines. The damage is kind of hit and miss with the worst on the south side of town. In my area not a lot of whole trees down just many large branches. But on the south side whole trees are down either broken in half or uprooted. There were reports of wind gust of maybe up to 100 MPH. I only had winds of 35 MPH so that too was hit and miss. And here I recorded .073” of rain.

We had trees knocked down here in SEMI and some power outages. Small hail was also reported along with 2 funnel clouds. It finally got active yesterday in terms of thunderstorm activity.

Several seasonal forecast updates coming this week: CPC/JAMSTEC/JMA...should be interesting to see if the JAMSTEC maintains its run-run colder winter outlook. Curious to see what the latest EURO ENSO update will look like as well. Alright, that's enough posting for now. Enjoy the spectacular weather folks!

"Ring of Fire" pattern looks to ignite starting late Sunday into Monday. SPC just issued this outlook... http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk_1730.gif?1499539377079

If you take a look at the SST's in the NE PAC, it looks very similar to what happened last winter. That's going to be a critical player and something to pay attn to over the next few months as to how it evolves.

He may be talking about the Arctic regions. Not sure. High latitude blocking during low solar suggests warmer winters in the arctic.

By trunk full of smuggled gold, I meant this was truly rare stuff for a Michigander back in the day. Not sure when Sheltons started up but I don't remember seeing anything along the x-ways back in '90 when I drove via 94 out to Wyoming and found them for sale. Pretty certain I would not have bothered if they were available right across the state line in Indiana. And when I moved to S. Bend 20 yrs ago I'm not sure they were readily available then? Going back (pre-1990) you had to go to like TN to find them, at least for year-round outlets. I think March of '78 was the first time I bought in TN coming home from FL with my folks. Back then, even Class C was really potent stuff. A single firecracker could shred a hand. They passed that "max load" import law and fewer maimed people resulted. Prolly a good thing, LOL

Maritime Alaska climate. You heard it here first, folks!

Sheltons! Love that place...my brother and I used to always go there a few months before the holiday when prices were cheaper and take the trip into N IN. BTW, Eagle River is such a beautiful place to experience the outdoors. I'm itching to go back sometime soon. My friend said he would want to go Muskey fishing later in the season. One thing I would like to do is take a snowmobile trip up there during the winter. Trails galore.

So it's a bit of a gray area when it comes to legality. Fireworks are sold across nearly the entire state of Wisconsin, but permits are required to set them off. However, the state leaves it up to local municipalities as to whether or not they want to enforce it. I've been going up to Eagle River, WI for 30 years and everyone has their fun on the 4th - some (myself) more than others. In order to put on a show of that magnitude, I have to buy wholesale direct. Now that I do, I can never go back to retail. And I totally get what you mean about the smuggling part. I remember long ago crossing over the Indiana border and going to Sheltons and coming back with a trunk load. It was always such a relief once you made it back home, lol.

Oops! Meant to post this yesterday Niko. Yeah, we caught the edge of the bad stuff that rolled onshore near Muskegon and tracked SE towards Jackson. Avoided the damage and power-out conditions though, which I'm thankful for. Don't need that part tbh

Fridays thunderstorms were a doozy. Torrential needed rainfall with ova 2inches IMBY. Next potential arrives next week.

After yesterdays thunderstorms, the humidity has lowered and skies have become sunny with delightful temperatures.

I like warm neutral. Good winters weighted towards positive snow anomalies here.

Holy ! Did you need a permit to blow all of this off? I bet you were the King of the neighborhood. Btw, how many orders did you get?? Lol...I'm coming to your show next year!

Yes sir-e. Here was one of my orders:

PHX smashed a 112 year old record (115F) and reached 117F! Dewpoints in the mid 40's made it feel even worse than about 2 weeks ago when it was 119F. Monsoonal storms forming in the mountains are producing nice dark thunderheads in the distance. Should get some outflows hitting the valley soon.

Very nice 4th of July weather week in the northern woods this past week, but back home for a bit now. Very nice day on tap tomorrow around these parts with sunny skies and temp around 80 with low humidity. Things look to turn steamy after that with with upper 80s to mid 90s through next week with dews approaching mid 70s. Loving this summer so far.

Well, this just in from NOAA: This hazardous weather outlook is for southeast Michigan..DAY ONE...Today and TonightScattered thunderstorms are expected to redevelop this afternoon andpersist into the evening as a cold front pushes through the region.There is a slight chance of severe weather with these storms as well.The strongest storms will be capable of producing wind gusts to 60MPH, hail to one inch in diameter. An isolated tornado is alsopossible. Storms will move to the east at 30 MPH. The chance forsevere weather later today will mainly be between 4 PM and 9 PM.

It actually happened folks. Thunderstorms pounded my area last night, well after midnight, which really pissed me off because I wanted to enjoy them while being awake, not sleeping. Possibly more later tonight. Hopefully, these arrive earlier.

@Jaster, this video coincides with your comment about your in-laws in Russia experiencing "the summer that never came"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lss8uGrX0rE