You dont want cold in early October, every early October I can remember where it was cold and had snow ended up being a shitty winter. Bank that cold for later.
They were given 4 chances to be right and only went 15% on the 5th when the hail was pretty much done. It was very easy to see this had a good hail potential, ML lapse rates forecast to be around 8 and verified 8.3 on DVN's sounding this morning, with good shear, and cape density mostly rooted above the freezing level. It was a bad forecast from several forecasters.
Of course if he wants it but he would be a great candidate along with myself. The main thing is adding a couple to cover everything. Not to mention it isn't bad to have extra around just in case.
Thank you sir, to be honest I think it would be good to have a couple here. Maybe one Chicago like Alek and one non-Chicago like myself. Personally I am just letting this play out and see.