73F with some clouds. Pleasant summer day. Old school feel.

From LOT. This is interesting .DISCUSSION... Issued at 130 PM CDT Fri Aug 14 2026 ...THREAT FOR SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING TONIGHT... Early afternoon surface charts depict an elongated stationary front extending from central Virginia along the Ohio River northwestward toward Kansas City, Missouri. A series of mid- level perturbations are riding along and north as the front as evident by festering areas of showers and thunderstorms from Omaha, Nebraska to Indianapolis, Indiana. The western-most perturbation (near Omaha) is the strongest in the region, as demonstrated by broad anticyclonic upper-level venting depicted in mid-level water vapor imagery as well as a clear cyclonic low- level circulation (a "warm-core" low) being sampled by both KOAX/KDMX WSR-88D radars. This evening, the Omaha warm-core low pressure system will shift eastward and encounter an increasingly unstable airmass (MUCAPE > 3000 J/kg) across southern Iowa. Rapid thunderstorm development and associated regions of latent heat release will be poised to intensify the warm core low west of the Mississippi River by midnight, leading to augmented low-level moisture transport north of the stalled front and into the circulation. Intense moisture convergence will lead to unusually high tropical-like moisture values with mean PWATs forecasted to approach 2.5" (near all-time records per sounding climatology at ILX/DVN) ahead of the low. Taken altogether, a cluster of thunderstorms with intense rain rates (3 to 5"/hr) is expected to develop and move into northern Illinois during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning. (This process is not unlike how tropical systems intensify and produce intense rain rates). While the center of the warm core low is expected to track more or less along the I-88 or I-80 corridors during the morning hours, the west-to-east orientation axis of the instability axis south of the core should promote the highest coverage of thunderstorms near and south of I-80. The thunderstorms are expected to reach the I-39 corridor sometime in the 1 to 3 AM timeframe, and then the I-55 and I-57 corridors sometime in the 2 to 5 AM timeframe, and then northwestern Indiana after 5 AM. The back edge of thunderstorms would then work eastward through the area after daybreak, perhaps not clearing northwestern Indiana until the 10 AM to 1 PM timeframe.

Top tier dud on the way

Winner! 4.34" at BLI, that's the closest for the I-5 stations. OLM is next with 3.89".

Are there any cloud seeding operations under way by the Vancouver BC weather weenies? They had too much lightning this year. Time to pass the torch.