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Has anybody had any cicada sightings yet?

grab a beer together, mates!

this sounds like me to my wife...

Ok, I'll give my backstory, too! I used to be a member of tennesseewx.com then I moved to IL making that no longer relevant - had always heard references to "the morons at americanwx" so I became one

Hurricane Otis - insanity.

man, temps are wild right now. near 90 in northwest missouri, 150 miles west it's 36.

friend once visited vancouver, bc and reported back that they have palm trees. still gotta see this one.

oh, and sorry for snagging that old post to reply. i'm catching up - my phone said im under a warning?

my brazilian ex-girlfriend would agree with you. she lived in miami i lived in tampa.

Went out to shovel the over-an-inch of sleet / ice pellets in Mundelein - just changed over to snow.

as my buddy used to say, "when 40 feels like 60."

I need to look up a short documentary on Mt. Washington - why are winds consistently so high on a ~6000 ft. mountain??

some good sideways flaking going on in Mundelein...

Maybe I missed it, but still waiting on a call?

"name checks out"

Certainly! I'm sure we'd all find joy in 29" falling from here on out...

@Kaner88could go the Nashville>Paducah>Chicago route up I-57. That area will have much less impact than northern Indiana.

I had no problem with Tampa - lived there 2.5 years until 2019. Of course, choose your area wisely as with anywhere. It was close enough for me to gravitate to St. Pete Beach a couple of evenings during the week and Anna Maria Island on Sundaze...

i lived there a few years ago when Irma came through. 95% of people seemed to have evacuated. Nobody on the roads, Interstate 75 southbound lanes were converted to northbound. all tolls were waived (that'd never happen in Illinois!). The winds were down to 100 when they reached my part of the area since it came onshore earlier than expected further south. it was amazing to see how well everything held up. only some fence panels were blown over and signs outside gas stations were busted, but mother nature handled it well. no downed trees that I saw. it was cool leaning into the wind-driven rain at 2:30am wish it'd have come through during daylight. it was intense!

and HE is from the area of Winter 21/22 Snowfall: 13.5" let's get some!

In recalling the models and their gradient across Cook County I'd have to say they nailed it. I'm just about to 2" here in southern Lake County while I see you folks in Cook reporting 6"+.

Obligatory Part 3 info. Virga here in Lake County, IL.

Having moved to Chicagoland from the south all I have seen is a mass southern migration. Columbus can’t be excluded from this trend.

my dog may not come inside today as my friend used to say, "when 40 feels like 60" with that sunshine...