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Good morning from warm and muggy Memphis. We are spending a day here on our way to Florida. Looks like rain is moving in back home and a chance of severe weather later today. As for for here in Memphis it will be dry with temps in the 90s and humid.

Ended up with 1.92” of rain yesterday. .42” from morning storms and 1.5” last night’s storms.

Picked up 0.85" in MBY last night and this morning for the first decent rain in two weeks.

Flooding in downtown Omaha tonight

I had a great time last night up on the rooftop near the lake. Thankfully, we had a nice lake breeze that was caused by the outflows from the storms up in Wisco and they also played a big role by somewhat blocking out the sunlight from the anvil cloud tops. As the grill master in charge, it was very humid and I couldn't imagine grilling in full sun and warmer temps...esp when your sipping on cocktails! Meanwhile, its a very warm and muggy morning 77F/69F...ORD & STL have the warmest temp in the entire region....yeesh!

Another video of the flooding downtown!

There are widespread reports of 3" to nearly 4" across Omaha tonight. The comma head of the MCS crawled across the city.

Omaha is really getting dumped on tonight. There are a lot of 1.5-3.0+" reports from across the area.

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I have finally enter the dry zone. Basically no rain in August, .08 once on a shower. If we miss out on the Tuesday precip I may be looking at a 15 to 20 period of no rain. Everything thing plenty green. But some new plantings are are struggling.

Here at my house I recorded 0.17" of rain fall overnight. The overnight low here was a warm 70. The official low looks to have been 72 but there was only around 0.05" of rain fall at the airport. At the current time the official temperature is 73 with a DP of 72. Yesterday with a H/L of 84/66 was the 1st day of this August that the mean was above average. After the first 7 days the mean at GR is 69.4 and that is -2.9 for the month so far.

Saw a report of 2.08” in 30 minutes in southwest Omaha too.

Grass is turning noticeably brown in many spots. Despite that, it’s a humid and dreary day. I’m about to be out of town for 11 days, hopefully we start moving into a better pattern by then.

I don't want to experience another August and September 2020 Smokeapypse.

I'm in St Paul this weekend and the storm complex rolled in around 6am and lasted most of the morning. Lots of thunder and lightning.

Another summer morning, and non forecasted storms firing. Just got my mother in laws yard mowed and thunderstorms erupted. Heavy rainfall and sharp lightning. NWS Hastings not exactly batting a high % this summer, but we’ll take the additional rainfall.

The entire weekend was yet another dud for my area. There is one more chance of a shower or storm late tonight as the upper low drops in from the nw. The model trend is to produce most of the rain north of CR. The 3kNAM misses us completely.

More flooding video including people trapped in an elevator with water up to their necks!