cyclone77

0.41" today. Will finish March with 3.14".

Had a brief period of marbles around 6am here. Picked up 0.11" overnight.

Severe to the east near Chicago, severe to the west near Des Moines. Here in the middle, crickets.

18 degrees 2 days ago, and today a new record high of 85 at MLI.

I saw on a show a long time ago that the huge natural aquifer out in the Plains is being quickly depleted by all of the crop irrigation taking place. So water issues may arise out there someday if that's true.

Hopefully the prefrontal precip shown on some of the models for Tue morning pans out, as it looks like the late day convection will be another miss southeast. Luckily a nice wet system looks to be on the way for Thursday.

From 80s last week back down to 18 here this morning. Grass is really greening up now. Some understory shrubs have leafed out in the wooded areas.

Had a few sprinkles here today. SPC FTL with yesterday's day2 outlook for northwest IL/east IA.

Glad I held off putting the tree fertilizer spikes in as we received nothing for rainfall today.

SPC risk needs to be shaved off over northwest IL and eastern IA. Will be a whiff east/southeast.

Very nice. It looks like my cell merged with a another storm from just south and produced your tor. One small thing I'll always regret about that chase was leaving my original position just to the south of Good Hope. Sat there for a short while with an excellent view of the approaching wall cloud, but repositioned a bit south to get out of the large hail threat. If I would have stayed there I would have captured a very nice long-lived time lapse of the approaching sup and evolution of the developing tor at very close range, as it passed very close to the original location. Here's where I wish I stayed put...

It's been like a summer evening. Still 72 at midnight at MLI, 70 at DVN.

Still 75 at MLI as of 9pm. Hard to believe it was in the single digits just 4 days ago. Amazing turnaround for sure.

86 at MLI and DVN smashing the record. I can now officially say I threw a snowball on a day it hit the mid 80s.

It has definitely been an entertaining stretch of weather the past few weeks. Hopefully that active stretch showing up on the models 8+ days out comes to fruition.