Midwestern summer

I spent a few days in St. Charles, Illinois.  St. Charles is a suburb of Chicago, in some ways, but it is a long, long way away.  This part of Illinois is more midwestern than the Great Lakes feel of Chicago proper.

The days were at or over 100 degrees, which is the interior continent for you.  The thunderheads that rolled through were massive but brief.

From a conference room: the thunderheads took an ominous form.