Saturated soils, bank-full rivers render predicted thunderstorms ominous — chicagotribune.com
The metro area is waterlogged and only a downpour away from far more serious flooding than anything which has occurred to date. That’s why forecasters are concerned about the introduction of thunderstorm-aggravating heat Wednesday and Thursday. Even Friday is to remain warm enough to foster t-storm development. The atmosphere is about as muggy as it gets here, brimming with 2″ of evaporated water, as evidenced by the humid tropical rain forest-level mid to upper 70(degrees) dew points, which threaten to erupt explosively in several waves of active thunderstorms in coming days. “Quiet”, rain-free spells may transition with great speed into lightning-peppered downpours based upon dramatically elevated atmospheric energy levels, rapid vertical temperature declines and powerful jet stream winds aloft–the energy of which may be transferred to the surface as powerful wind gusts on several occasions in coming days.
Ugh, we haven’t had any more water in the basement, but last night we had another wee-hours thunderstorm, and it’s storming again now. It was horribly muggy today, too. This is really shaping up to be a weird summer for weather.
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