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T of snow here.

Several lightning strikes showing up with the heavy snow all along that band in Iowa. So far just a 5 min period of sleet here, but should get a 1-2hr burst of wet snow later this morning.

Sleet pinging the eastern windows at the moment.

Gonna kind of seem like a northeastern US storm for the MSP area with heavy snow changing to rain after significant accumulation. Gonna get pretty sloppy pretty fast lol

May get a nice burst of wet snow around these parts around midday tomorrow, otherwise mostly a miss north.

A few passing flurry episodes this morning here. We've had 2.3" of snow since January 13th.

Yeah that was a fun event. Got on the sup that would eventually drop the Good Hope tor early on and got a great glimpse of the incoming classic supercell structure. I still kick myself for not staying in the original time lapse position longer, as the tornado ended up coming down very close to that location and would have made for an amazing time lapse. Ended up positioning a bit further southeast to avoid incoming hail from vault moving in, and still got a great look at the formation of the wall cloud that dropped the tornado shortly after. You can see it form around the 30 sec mark in the time lapse.

Nice thundery soaker overnight with 0.72". Just shy of 2" for the month now.

Never been a big fan of these kind of setups where the east/west front starts to crash southward during the warmest part of the day, as some models show. Seems like with the good setups the warm front will at least slowly advance northward during the daytime at least.

Most of the DVN cwa looks to be locked into cold/northeast low-level flow on Thu as the warm front looks like it's gonna be more like a stationary front. Other than hailers the best shot at severe looks to be over MO and the southern 60% of IL.

Hmmm. 15 ows? Interesting.

Looks like a good chance at a 1" soaker tomorrow night and Friday. We've been very dry after the mid Jan snowstorms so the moisture will be appreciated.

Hmmm, after seeing your pics I'm gonna change my name to lotterywinner

Finished with 0.58"

Most of this afternoon/evening's activity has skirted this immediate area, but a nice cell just hit with a brief torrential downpour and some sleet sized hail. Picked up a quick 1/4" of rain.

Over 20 severe hail reports so far in IA/IL/MO/WI. Looks like a slight risk definitely would've been warranted. No severe watch either. EDIT: Now over 30 reports of severe hail.

Yeah I lol'd. Not sure what that was all about. Did see some pretty nice supercell structures, including the eastern QC tor warned hailer a short while ago.

Another new record high today at MLI at 77. Hit 76 here.

Had a 40-50ft section of one of the south Hackberry trees split off this afternoon. About 15" diameter at the attachment. Made it to 76 here, 79 at MLI. May make another run at 80 tomorrow.

58mph at the Iowa City ASOS recently. Winds are pushing 50mph here. DVN laid an egg by not including more of the IL counties in the wind advisory.

40-45mph southerly gusts out there, with a temp of 74 already here, and 76 at MLI. Lots of blowing dust out in the open country.

Mid to upper 60s today, and another run at 80 tomorrow. It's as dry as a desert so the sky's the limit wrt temp potential.

Sad to see, but what a great career. Grew up watching him like so many others. Unfortunately couldn't see his forecasts on TV anymore after WGN America became a thing, and WGN news wasn't available to us outside of Chicagoland. That happened 10 years ago or so IIRC. Hopefully he has a relaxing/long retirement.

Saw a few flurries fluttering down from scattered statocu early this morning. Only made it to 30 here today, 47 degrees colder than yesterday's high. EDIT: With 0.13" of precip, this is the driest Feb I can remember here. MLI picked up a little rain yesterday and that bumped them up to a lofty 0.26". DVN has 0.18". Snowfall this month will total 0.3" here, with 0.6"/0.5" at MLI/DVN.