Yeah, Marco is decapitated. That's the mid-level vort racing towards FL. I wouldn't be shocked if this is written off by the 11am advisory at this point.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing at all when I'm able to look at satellite imagery for Marco versus deployment wx, but for pressure I want to see multiple fixes. We'll see what he's able to do as the diurnal minimum makes it way to that side of the globe.
Trust me, I'm over 8k miles from home and the modeling here has been s**t recently. The activity last night and today have ZERO support from models we use. It's insane.
I'm still quite surprised that the disaster declaration on the federal side hasn't been approved yet for Iowa & Illinois. This is an absolute mess for several cities and countless farms.
Surely this will be Iowa's most expensive non-flooding related natural disaster.
Scott AFB (BLV) picked up just under 6" over about 3 hours earlier today and caused significant flooding on base with dozens, if not over 100, vehicles submerged and numerous buildings, including Air Mobility Command's HQ having water enter them.
Estimates of up to 10mil acres, roughly 1/3, of Iowa's corn crop is damaged/destroyed. Unreal.
https://www.kcci.com/article/derecho-damage-to-iowa-crops/33577652
So, for the Chicagoland area today: rampant looting in the early morning, then a large factory fire near O' Hare, now tornado warning with 80+mph winds. 2020 is wild, today, even wilder.