Been gone since Monday but looks like it hit 89 here on 7/6. Other than that one day has been pretty nice recently with no real major heat on the horizon. 77 here currently.

Yeah we were approaching a 90F burger here in Springfield. sad that this is considered normal now.

The "dead-on mid-July climo" here produced a high of 86º, which is 5º above both guidance and what this particular pattern would have produced in the old days. I struggle to understand what has changed post-2013 to make summer highs overachieve so consistently here. Attributing it simply to "global warming" is lazy since the difference seems to lie more in what a given upper-level pattern produces at the surface, not in the upper-level patterns themselves (although they have certainly warmed too).

Hard to argue against today being perfect. Dead-on mid July climo. Mid-upper 70's, stiff north breeze, kaleidoscope sky, with multiple cloud types at multiple levels of the atmosphere. A meteorologist's sunny day, minus distant convective towers decorating the horizon