We've been hotter than heck of late and with dewpoints running into the upper 60's into the mid-70's. Sure makes breathing with these tired old lungs a chore. Then yesterday they issued an air pollution alert/warning for this region. The weather service said we could maybe expect some rain today and a half hour ago it cut loose with those expectations.
Right now I am thinking we are seeing a rate of about 2"/hour of rainfall. Straight down, running over the curbs. The wind, more of a hint of breeze, has just begun. Not really a storm even with an occasional shot of lightning and thunder, but man the rain. I'd like to know why we can't get rain that starts at 10 PM and is just a nice steady inech every three hours that lasts until 4 in the morning?
Upper 80's into the 90's and high humidity are forcast again until late today when the severe stuff is supposed to show its ugly head as a cold front gets ushered in. All this wet will certainly have the area tropical until the cold front arrives.
Minnesota....land of 10,000 weather conditions.
