Mutual nap enablers. Perfect on a gray, cloudy, and rainy day.

Any 🍅 tomato experts out there know the cause for the leaf curling on this tomato. The variety is Wisconsin 55, an heirloom. I’m guessing herbicide damage from nearby corn fields. 🌱

Winter or summer in the Midwest? Widespread rain with this storm system is welcome toward slowing drought development.

Salvia never fail as an attractor for the ruby-throated hummingbird. 🌱

Shrub color in the garden. Chartreuse color really brightens up shady spots. Hibiscus, arania, butterfly bush, and arborvitae. 🌱

Color in the new garden. 🌱 Cosmos, sunflower, kniphofia, and the common green June beetle.

Classic Midwest meal shows everything is better with bacon. First pick of green beans from the garden and Yukon Gold potatoes all boiled together resulting in a nice subtle smoke flavor.

Here’s the yellow variety. It pairs nicely with the orange variety, and the soft leaves are neat for a sensory garden.

Sadly these are the sort of summer days in the Midwest we will see less often due to a warming climate. This is the inverse of more days with high temperatures in the 90s. #climatechange

@chicagotribune.com -example of poor journalism. Wind over Illinois is very predictable so the expectation of smoke from Canada or the western US is a certainty for our future. Too often journalists falsely utilize the term "unpredictable" with weather and climate when its not appropriate.

Quite the interesting sky today in eastern Iowa with two MCS passages. Here are some evening mammati.

Cumulus castellanus? Certainly a hint of things to come.

The transition of nocturnal MCS to decay mode or reinvigorating to become severe again remains among the most significant convective forecast challenges.

Espania! Espania! Espania!

It’s a subtle signature, but a collapsing rain shower over the KDVN RDA resulted in a circular outbound ring of velocity and a reflectivity boundary surrounding the radar.

Kind of an odd Ring of Fire setup in the central US.

Historic timeline of select climate change benchmarks. Climate change is far from a new issue.

Didn’t realize Red Rocks Amphitheater was a CCC project from the Great Depression. Those damn Democrats putting people to work and leaving legacies like this all across the country. 😁

Breakfast and a view at one of my favorite Denver area food venues, the Wondervu Cafe.

If you are a #railfan, don’t miss a stop at the world’s largest freight yard and Golden Spike Tower in North Platte Nebraska. The cool viewing center and museum was developed by local citizens, not Union Pacific.

Triple dip during a beautiful evening.

Tornado shelters being built in an apartment/ condo complex in North Platte Nebraska. Great to see.

Stratocumulus undulatis ?

One of the fun things I miss from living in Colorado is watching storms in the distance then seeing them on the radar. Life’s simple pleasures.

Snow moving in as viewed atop Pikes Peak followed by a snowbow. Also never realized there was a year round weather observing station on the peak many years ago. How about that for a job. Taking observations at ~500 mb.

Learned today that red wing blackbirds will eat at a peanut feeder. 🌱

Visited La Crosse and had to pay homage to the only krausened beer in the US and the favorite of Chicagoans from many years past.

Every garden rock deserves a special companion plant, in this case a columbine. 🌱

Had a bear of a time in Wisconsin last week and heading up there again this weekend.

Storms as seen from the Davenport Iowa radar. When you can see storm cores this far from the radar, it’s no surprise NWS is warning for large/very large hail across northwest and north central Iowa in this environment.