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3 hours ago, IWXwx said:

 

I understand that traffic is bonkers with people heading north from the path of totality in the southern part of the county. Gridlock.

I-74 from Indy to the IL state line is a parking lot.

Wanting to see some cloud cover and other weather for the April 8 eclipse that affects sub forum.

LSX radar down for maintenance with two tor warned cells in the metro. 

1 hour ago, StormChaser4Life said:

A lot of mixing issues here thus far. Longer than what models depicted. Definitely getting nervous totals going to bust here tonight. 

I was in Peoria about 1.5 hours ago and drove out to Farmington. In town is was white rain and even on 474 around to the jail. Once I got between jail and Hanna City is was ripping snow and road was pretty bad by 8:20. It took me just under an hour to get from Binny’s to Farmington.

Didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday morning but this was an impressive shelf cloud with 50-70mph wind and 1.5” rain in about half an hour west of Peoria. I’m near Farmington.

7 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Caught a twilight glimpse of the Trivoli EF2 from the Casey's gas station on the west edge of Hanna City that day. I wanted to stay put and shoot it, or even drive a little north up IL-78 to try and get around the tree line, but my chase partner at the time (who was driving) freaked out a bit and wanted to keep driving east to stay ahead of it. So we let it go in the darkness and never did see it again.

If you were in that spot today it would be blocked by a Dollar General.

49 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Feel like I'm living in LA during the 70s

I just drove from Peoria to Dubuque and back and QCA was defiantly the worst.

Just west of Peoria and got enough rain to wet the sidewalk. I’m going to have to haul a bunch of water from the neighbor’s pond to get pumpkins to germinate and hope for some substantial enough rain to get some pumpkins for fall. Have 2 acres of them planted.

6 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

I'm amazed at how well the corn still looks around here.  It may be a bit behind in height, but it is still green and growing.  This modern era frankencorn must have roots that go down 10 times deeper than normal corn, that's the only way it's getting any moisture for growth/life.

I have an acre of 4 varieties of old open pollinated corn planted in the same field as a modern hybrid. Herbicide program is different. The modern corn got a pre-emerge spray with Dual Magnum+Atrazine+Callisto. The open pollinated heirloom corn didn’t get a pre-emerge spray but got Atrazine+Impact post plus one pass with cultivator and I’m going to do a clean up for waterhemp with Callisto. I’ll go out tomorrow with tape measure and confirmation on planting dates but it’s very hard to tell the difference at this point visually. The modern hybrid got planted at 34k population and the heirloom OP corn got planted at 24k population. This is going to be a good test year for this little plot.

I've had the air conditioning on for a total of maybe 48 hours this summer because of the low dewpoints and nocturnal cooling if we're looking for a silver lining. 

I started planting sweetcorn on Tuesday this week west of Peoria. It’s weeks too early by the calendar but the 10 day outlook looks favorable. Plenty of soil moisture, planting conditions were marginal at best but being the first guy with local sweetcorn for sale is money in the bank.

1 hour ago, Malacka11 said:

Opting to chase the Beardstown storm for now since it's more discrete. Nice CGs from it right ahead.

That storm is going through BFE in the spoon river basin soon. It’s had navigating through there. I’m in the line of that storm in Farmington. 

If anyone wants a co-pilot to chase tomorrow I’d love to ride along. I live just southeast of Galesburg and can meet up wherever. I feel like I’m pretty confident with navigating and understanding where we need to be in relation to a storm and storm tracks. PM me if you’re interested.

1 hour ago, Malacka11 said:

The previous/current severe episodes have prompted me to read the discussions of other offices a little more often and LOT is quite literally on another level. It's just so obvious that they simply hold themselves to a higher standard witht their discussions. They are far more descriptive and easier to understand for a beginner while also being more informative and in-depth overall. 

Agree 100%. I enjoy the LOT AFD and learn quite a lot.

3 minutes ago, jut2005 said:

Just in time. Obviously people’s lives are most important but they have been working on that interchange for 3-4 years and are about to complete that project which I believe was a 400 million dollar project.


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I was thinking that they’d have to start that fustercluck all over again. 

5 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

The tornadic cell near Iowa City has inhaled the trailing storm, so the great-looking structure is fading.

Couplet fell apart just before the 80/380 interchange.

Hail in Glasford, IL SW of Peoria. Photo from a friend in town.

18 minutes ago, jut2005 said:

Poor Washington, IL is under the gun again.  That thing is taking a similar path to Nov 2013.  

Almost on top of 2013 but initiated 15-20 miles sw.

Been out tapping maples in central IL just needing a nice long gradual warm-up. 400+ taps out this year. 

0050z and IL 116 at Farmington snow covered.

I’m in Farmington about 20 miles due west of Peoria. About 5:30 started to get pingers and by 6 was almost all SN and had just transitioned back to rain and pingers.

Roughly 2” 20 miles west of Peoria before it turned to rain.

1 minute ago, janetjanet998 said:

went between the towns ..a little luck for once tonight

Perhaps. The high school and a pretty decent housing development in that area. 

Much of west central IL has very poor coverage on Verizon network so if that's your data source be aware of slow or non-existent data coverage. Macomb to Quincy and quincy to Jacksonville and jacksonville to havana and havana to Macomb is almost complete dead zone. AT&T is better. US Cellular is best.

If anyone is chasing and wants a co-pilot that knows most of west central IL fairly well I'm game. I live just west of Peoria.

29 minutes ago, StormChaser4Life said:

Well this has trended to a real dry prune. How depressing. I have barely squeaked out anything from this cold active pattern. Cue Taps with the trumpet. 

I live in Farmington and we have about half the snow as even as close as Hanna City and Peoria proper.