Malacka11

Maybe I'm squinting at it too hard but it looks like the passage of the evening QLCS is bumping earlier instead of later, which I'd love to see it with even half a lux of sunlight left. Also:

.UPDATE...
Issued at 1015 AM CDT Fri Apr 17 2026

There is a trailing boundary extending south from ongoing
convection across the Minneapolis area.  This boundary may be
an initial source for forcing as it spreads towards northern
Illinois in the mid afternoon time frame. The airmass is still
stable per the extensive area of billow clouds across Iowa,
however we have noted a significant uptick in the dewpoints out
ahead of this feature. Instability progs would suggest by the
time this boundary arrives northern Illinois should destabilize,
and thus there at least some concerns for a leading round of
convection, which could be in the form of supercells with an all
hazard threat. Some questions still exists as to whether this
will just graze the local area or continue to push closer to the
Chicago metro area. There is a shortwave across Missouri that
also slide through the area ahead of the cold front which could
be a mechanism to keep convection farther east, so this will be
a mesoanalysis focus in the coming hours. Limiting factors for
this first round convection having a larger footprint would be
that the forcing is a bit more subtle, and we still have a
fairly deep dry layer ahead of this boundary.

Regardless of this, low level flow will reintensify ahead of
the cold front which should help to keep instability up into the
evening hours, where a damaging wind threat would be the
highest concern, along with a QLCS tornado threat. Thoughts from
the morning AFD still tell the story quite well.

KMD

rockford more like rockedford

xtended looks warm + active too?

22 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Easy inch plus here fucking never heard something like this before 

This is like after 20 minutes too fwiw

Easy inch plus here fucking never heard something like this before 

Nice watch 

30 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Sunny cold day today. Went to the park and took a pic of a field because i thought this was a cool winter/spring contrast pic.

This is fucking cool we do indeed need all four seasons

4 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Ahh cubs opener fly over

Loud af

I thought you were talking about a bug this am 

48 minutes ago, frostfern said:

If only there was a wiki on Alek-speak.  My favorites are “dab” and “jelly”.  

Fr he's always set the standard. I think it's just a Simpsons reference fwiw having done some googling

48 minutes ago, cmillzz said:

he’s implying we’re going back into a cold and wintry pattern, which isn’t true at all aside from a couple brief, seasonal cool shots.

That part I got, I meant literally what is "smarch" a combination of if morch is march+torch

I'm sorry I'm pretty sure I understand the vibe but what is smarch again

5 minutes ago, Chicago916 said:

Was driving around tons of flooded streets in Lincoln Park and Avondale earlier. Going to be a literal icerink out there tomorrow. If only someone could have cleared all of the crap from the sewer drains to prevent it...

This is what my parking lot looks like atm. The tornado intercept shitbox is sitting right outside frame also partially submerged. This does happen every time it rains somewhat hard apparently.

We actually changed over here in westmont atm. Heavy pixie dust still but at least it's changed over. Don't really expect to be on the right side of the band tonight but just getting the grass white for the cold is swag

It's a sign you're successfully reeling the slablizzard in

Best model

The qualm before the storm

So mysterious 

Is the nam actually doing something legit or is that just noise? I understand that we've been trending minorly better for NE IL again but

Will certainly be a fun 24 hours. See how long it'll take gusts to start, hoping for  some good GV storms maybe in a few hours, and I'd love to reel in some surprise death band tomorrow morning with winds but not holding onto that one ofc. Would love to see it happen though

If we're getting one more semi decent clipper in a few days then covering the grass with this one first would be cool. Ik I was talking big game about 12" or leave it but I hadn't fully processed that we could have one more mini winter period if we just get enough to stack at least

Especially with the cold that comes part and parcel might as well play pretend one more time before next year

17 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

 

 

So it really is just a new thing huh

Gfs slightly better?

Just now, hawkeye_wx said:

That's an almost comical cutout of Iowa 

18z moment 

If it's less than 12" here personally I'd rather just let WI get their 30"