Ended up with 2.09" at my place from heavy storms this afternoon. Kids had a blast in the flooded creek. Nice temps all day too, currently 69F. Looks like two to three more days of cool and wet weather but as the rest of you noted, the heat will be on after that. Hopefully it doesn't last too long.

Trip is ruined. Currently 91.

88.2 IMBY. We had a high overcast for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we held around 84 or so. As soon as it moved off we shot up to 88.

The warmth/anomalous dryness was centered most strongly in the early warm season during that period. It's been concentrated more mid summer since. Though last warm season was somewhere in the middle.

Jarrell was an interesting one. Besides being rated F5, probably best known for its slow forward movement. When you have such extreme CAPE like that, you're usually not going to have enough shear to get such an extreme tornado. But shear and CAPE can kind of compensate for each other to some extent. CAPE values were sort of modest and generally around 1500-2000 J/kg (the higher amounts being south of MI) on Palm Sunday, but the shear was about as extreme as you'll ever see so the end result was many violent tornadoes. The Plainfield, IL F5 tornado of 1990 was a Jarrell type of day with off the charts CAPE values (may have actually been a little higher than Jarrell). This is obviously pretty primitive technology compared to today, but here's a radar loop of the Plainfield storm.