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Currently Myrtle Beach is at 86F/30C with a dew point of 72F/22C
Back in Chicago ORD is also at 86F/30C dew point of 67F/19C, while MDW is at 87F/31C also a dew point of 67F/19C. My suburb is at 85F/29C with a dew point of 70F/21C
Looks like MDW is now at 89 degrees could hit 90 only for the 6th time this year. ORD is at 87 degrees and now after a big lunch,I'm going for a 3 mile walk on the beach
Happens a lot here. It's always amazing how far you can see lightning or hear thunder but then weaken and dissipate before getting here without any rain. Without radar or conditions from there it's hard to say.
That lightning probably came off the anvil or something ahead of it and then just weakened as it came towards you.. or vise versa... maybe moving the opposite way away from you and it was the tail end of the storm? We don't truly understand lightning yet other than the basics...maybe it just had enough force to let one flash go and that's it.
One fascinating thing I learned and will never forget is the fact that Storms "Pulse".. I look at storms differently after I learned that and realize why sometimes they'll be thundery/lightning and next minute nothing then back to thundery again.
I have to emphatise that the crack was really really close and loud, the flash that seemingly hit the river bank was just less than a half mile away and the thunder was straight overhead. The sudden appearance and disappearance of the cell seems just... well, weird.
The only reasonable explanation I found is that the cell reacted with encountering the soil and I just happened to be straight above it when it eventually died. Followed the lightning maps closely, but they didn't give any kind of answer. It was just some 60 minutes since the last recorded flash.
Only six days above 86F/30C so far (for me), including yesterday's 88F. I hit 90F already, in May.
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