Weather With Enthusiasm — brought to you by Kol Simcha Productions.<br /><br />When there is proper funding for this podcast (either through membership or listening or listeners through advertisements ) the following is the schedule: <br />Daily morning briefings for Jewish communities in Chicago (West Rogers Park), Borough Park (Brooklyn), Baltimore, Lakewood (NJ), and Jerusalem, Israel. Each episode includes halachic times (zmanim), a plain-English weather forecast, weather history, and family-friendly kids activities.<br /><br />Historical Weather Podcast: Deep-dive episodes on the greatest extreme weather events in history — new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM CDT.<br /><br />Hosted by Kol Simcha Productions.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support</a>.
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Weather With Enthusiasm — brought to you by Kol Simcha Productions.<br /><br />When there is proper funding for this podcast (either through membership or listening or listeners through advertisements ) the following is the schedule: <br />Daily morning briefings for Jewish communities in Chicago (West Rogers Park), Borough Park (Brooklyn), Baltimore, Lakewood (NJ), and Jerusalem, Israel. Each episode includes halachic times (zmanim), a plain-English weather forecast, weather history, and family-friendly kids activities.<br /><br />Historical Weather Podcast: Deep-dive episodes on the greatest extreme weather events in history — new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM CDT.<br /><br />Hosted by Kol Simcha Productions.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support</a>.
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July 3, 2026
Morning Briefing — Friday, July 3, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and More
Morning Briefing — Friday, July 3, 2026<br />West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)<br />Weather With Enthusiasm<br /><br />📅 Hebrew Date: 18 Tamuz 5786 | Erev Shabbos Parashat Pinchas<br /><br />🕍 PARSHA<br />Parashat Pinchas — Numbers 25:10–30:1<br />Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aharon HaKohen is rewarded with the Covenant of Peace for his zealotry on behalf of Hashem. The parsha includes the second census of Bnei Yisrael, the petition of the daughters of Zelophchad, the appointment of Yehoshua as Moshe's successor, and the laws of the Musaf offerings.<br /><br />🕯️ ZMANIM — West Rogers Park, Chicago (60645)<br />Alos HaShachar: 3:27 AM<br />Earliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:05 AM<br />Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:20 AM<br />Latest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:07 AM<br />Latest Tefila (GRA): 10:23 AM<br />Chatzos: 12:54 PM<br />Earliest Mincha: 1:32 PM<br />Shkiah (Sunset): 8:29 PM<br /><br />🕯️ SHABBOS TIMES<br />Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): 8:09 PM CDT (20 min before Shkiah — Chicago minhag)<br />Havdalah (Motzei Shabbos, Saturday July 4): 9:19 PM CDT (50 min after Shkiah — Chicago minhag)<br /><br />🌤️ WEATHER SUMMARY<br />Hot, humid, and stormy on this pre-July 4th Friday. Heat Advisory in effect south of I-80 with heat indices reaching ~100°F. The Chicago metro area faces two storm windows: the first arriving late morning to early afternoon (11 AM–3 PM), with damaging wind potential<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support</a>.<br /><br />Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.<br />New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. <br />Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com<br /><br />Historical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. <br /><br />Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.<br /><br />Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha
July 3, 2026
Chicago Storm Alert: Severe Thunderstorm Threat — July 2-4, 2026
Chicago Storm Alert: Severe Thunderstorm Threat July 2-4, 2026<br />Weather With Enthusiasm — Special Episode<br /><br />A deep meteorological breakdown of the thunderstorm threat facing Chicago and northern Illinois over the next 48 hours — sourced directly from the NWS Chicago Area Forecast Discussion (3:15 PM CDT, July 2), the NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook (3:24 PM CDT, July 2), the SPC Day 1 Convective Outlook (3:00 PM CDT, July 2 — forecaster Squitieri), and the SPC Day 2 Convective Outlook (12:17 PM CDT, July 2 — forecaster Jewell).<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />TONIGHT — THURSDAY JULY 2 (after 8-9 PM CDT)<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />• SPC Day 1: MARGINAL Risk for Chicago | SLIGHT Risk for Milwaukee/WI corridor<br />• HWO: Level 1 of 5 Damaging Wind Risk (up to 60 mph) | Level 1 of 5 Large Hail (up to quarter size) | Limited Flooding Risk<br />• Storm type: MCS (Mesoscale Convective System) traversing WI/IL border<br />• Key threats: Wet microbursts, DCAPE >1,000 J/kg, elevated PWATs<br />• Flash flood scenario: Training convection possible if cold pools merge across far northern Illinois<br />• Storm spotters activated<br />• Activity wanes after ~4 AM Friday<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />FRIDAY JULY 3 — THE BIGGER EVENT (1 PM–7 PM CDT)<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />• SPC Day 2: SLIGHT Risk for Chicago — one category higher than tonight<br />• HWO: Level 2 of 5 Severe Thunderstorm Risk (Elevated) | Limited Flooding Risk<br />• Driver: More potent upper-level shortwave crossing northern Arizona Thursday → reaches northern IL/southern WI Friday afternoon<br />• Environment: Dew points solidly mid to locally upper 70s°F | Uncapped air mass | Modest deep-layer shear<br />• Storm mode: Potential line or multicell clusters traversing northern IL into NW Indiana<br />• Primary threat: Damaging wind gusts<br />• Extreme Heat Warning extended until 7 PM Friday for areas near/south of Kankakee River (Day 5 of heat wave)<br />• Possible improvement Friday evening — watch 5 and 7 PM NWS updates for fireworks forecast<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />SATURDAY — INDEPENDENCE DAY (July 4)<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />• HWO: Level 1 of 5 Severe Thunderstorm Risk | Limited Flooding Risk<br />• Storm location highly uncertain — range from southern Wisconsin to southern Illinois<br />• Mid-level wave may slow/stall over western Great Lakes<br />• Many dry hours expected between rounds<br />• Heat index near 95-100°F near/south of I-80<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />SUNDAY JULY 5<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />• HWO: Limited Thunderstorm Risk — no elevated severe parameters<br />• Drier, somewhat cooler conditions expected by mid-week<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />KEY TECHNICAL TERMS EXPLAINED<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />• PWAT (Precipitable Water): Total atmospheric moisture column — high values = heavy rain potential<br />• DCAPE (Downward CAPE): Energy available for damaging downdrafts — >1,000 J/kg = significant<br />• Wet Microburst: Downburst driven by precipitation weight + evaporation — 60+ mph surface gusts possible<br />• MCS (Mesoscale Convective System): Large organized cluster of thunderstorms<br />• Outflow Boundary: Gust front of cold air pushed ahead of storm clusters<br />• Training Convection: Multiple cells repeatedly crossing same area — flash flood setup<br />• HREF: High Resolution Ensemble Forecast — blended high-res model output<br />• Shortwave: Ripple of energy rotating through the jet stream that triggers convection<br />• Zonal Flow: Jet stream flowing straight west-to-east, embedding smaller shortwaves<br /><br />Sources: NWS Chicago (weather.gov/chicago) | Storm Prediction Center (spc.noaa.gov)<br /><br />Morning forecasts at 7 AM every day on Spreaker. Historical weather deep-dives every Tuesday and Thursday.<br />$5/month supports this broadcast —...
July 2, 2026
Hurricane Audrey: The Night Cameron Disappeared — 1957
Hurricane Audrey: The Night Cameron Disappeared — 1957<br /><br />Episode 13 of the Weather With Enthusiasm historical weather podcast.<br /><br />At midnight on June 26, 1957, water began rising in the streets of Cameron, Louisiana. By dawn, the town was gone. Hurricane Audrey arrived twelve hours ahead of schedule, while most residents were still asleep — and the storm surge that followed erased an entire community from the map.<br /><br />KEY FACTS:<br />• Dates: June 26–29, 1957<br />• Landfall: Early morning June 27, 1957 — Cameron Parish, southwest Louisiana<br />• Category at landfall: Category 4 — 125 mph sustained winds<br />• Strongest June hurricane on record at landfall (held that record until 2024 — 67 years)<br />• Storm surge: 12–14 feet MSL in Cameron Parish<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support</a>.<br /><br />Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.<br />New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. <br />Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com<br /><br />Historical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. <br /><br />Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.<br /><br />Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha
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