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We had mood flakes off and on all day yesterday, that mood being a sour one.

LOL 433 PM CDT Fri Mar 25 2022 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN WILL AND SOUTHERN DUPAGE COUNTIES... At 432 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Naperville, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and small hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. This shower has a history of producing 70 mph winds! IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include... Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove, Romeoville, Plainfield, Woodridge, Lockport, New Lenox, Homer Glen, Mokena, Lemont, Burr Ridge, Westmont, Lisle, Darien, Crest Hill,

I threw up a Facebook post on our EMA page this morning warning of quickly changing visibility with some squalls. Fortunately, it will be in the late evening/AM hours down here, so will hopefully be low impact.

I'm surprised no one is considering driving to central OH this afternoon. Good chasing terrain for the most part.

A solid D here. The only thing that saved this winter from an F was the early February 12 incher. Take away that storm and I'd barely be in double digits and FWA would still be in single digits.

Some cellular LES made it clear down here this morning. We even had a some substantially reduced visibilities at times. Pretty cool. A nice way to finish winter. Now looking forward to 50's and 60's all week. Bring it!

The same thing happened with the snow here. Also, I just noticed today that some of my tulips leaves are poking up. They should really take off this week.

Apparently, although the article ambiguous/fuzzy about that.

Anyone want a fixer upper for chasing? https://www.wane.com/weather/first-tornado-intercept-vehicle-from-storm-chasers-found-in-kansas-yard/

Hoosier thread starter ftw Only about an inch and a half here, but it's more palatable knowing that the entire next week will bring spring in its full glory.

Wet? CPC says mmmaybe.

Yeah, you're right. That was kind of a southern part of the forum/IMBY post. EDIT: I just quickly checked the ensemble means when I made the post. However, I also take a deterministic GFS total precip map through 384 with many grains of salt. If they were accurate, I would have been buried in snow from late January through February this winter.

Yeah the gfs depicts a zonal flow pretty much after this weekend through the end of its run. Fairly seasonable and dry, or to put it more succinctly, zzzzzzzzzz

Dang! You might catch me with one more snow.

Indiana is on the board for a tornado as a survey revealed an EF-0 in Cass County, although there were reports of stronger straight-line winds in the area than the tornado produced. However, it did damage a house. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 709 PM EST SUN MAR 6 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0205 AM TORNADO 4 SW ROYAL CENTER 40.82N 86.55W 03/06/2022 CASS IN NWS STORM SURVEY NWS SURVEY CONFIRMS A BRIEF, EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF W CR 400 N AND N CR 925 W. THE TORNADO TRACKED NORTHEAST FOR ROUGHLY A HALF MILE CAUSING DAMAGE TO TREES AND A HOME BEFORE DISSIPATING. WINDS ARE ESTIMATED AT 70 MPH.

This sucks. Six dead and four injured. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/official-2-people-die-as-tornado-moves-through-central-iowa/

Had legit 65MPH winds as it moved through. Multiple poles down in the area as well as a semi on its side on I 69.

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 440 PM EST SAT MAR 05 2022 ...RECORD DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT INDIANAPOLIS... A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR MARCH 5TH OF 77 DEGREES WAS SET AT INDIANAPOLIS TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 75 SET IN 1956 AND TIED IN 1983. WEATHER RECORDS BEGAN IN INDIANAPOLIS IN FEBRUARY 1871.

Who's heading to Iowa this afternoon/evening?

All of the stations in the Ft. Wayne area are at $4.00 today (well, technically $3.999 lol). I remember in 2011-'12 it hovered at around $3.80 for a prolonged period of time.

The yoopers measure in inches. Down here I'm on my knees in front of my snowboard trying to get every last tenth. Bo gets more settling from one storm than my yearly total!

Only expecting upper 60's here, but I'll take it.

I saw a flock a couple of days ago and had my first robin singing to me this morning as I went into the office (well, not exactly singing, but making the noise they make when they're pissed off at you).

The ONLY thing saving this crappy winter for me was GHD3, where I pretty much bulls-eyed with 12.3". You take that away and I would be sitting at 9.9". This brings up the discussion of whether you are happier with one big dog or just general snowy and cold throughout the winter. I want both! Back to the thread topic, as it is discussed every year as we roll into March, some are ready to go into full-blown spring, while others are hoping to salvage winter, no matter how awful it's been up to this point. I guess that I fall into the latter category, as I use astronomical spring as the cutoff. So, winter, you have three weeks to redeem yourself. That being said, the upcoming week looks zzzzzz with a mini torch next weekend, so let's make that two weeks.