Author: Chief Meteorologist Michael Clark

Good morning!  Here are the updated 7-day forecasts: Current weather alerts: Rain showers gradually build northward through the day.  Tonight will bring widespread precipitation, with an icing concern for northwest Ohio, northern Indiana & Illinois.  Illinois northern/northwest Illinois and eastern Iowa will see significant winter weather impacts with freezing rain and accumulating snows.…

Video: http://youtu.be/ju6V5iuGNYU?hd=1 Current winter weather alerts: Current flood watches: Precipitation will gradually lift northward through the day, with freezing rain and snow expanding across northern Illinois mid afternoon into the early evening, and continuing through the night.  Main ice concerns along and north of I-80.  Here is the forecast radar…

Video: Didn't show freezing rain totals in the video, but I have posted that in the discussion below.  Other-wise, most of the details will be found in the video here.   http://youtu.be/RSkIESuEmiE?hd=1 Rain showers gradually build northward through the day, with northern parts of the state mostly just seeing patchy…

Ohio video: http://youtu.be/bhQ0vCgT9I4?hd=1 That dense fog out there this morning will linger into mid/late morning for most of us due to warm air riding over the recent snowpack...areas across north-central Ohio may see some freezing fog at times with temps noted at 31-32F until warming up above freezing late morning:…

Good afternoon everyone! Our forecast from this morning still remains on course and there will be similar information within this post, with some nuances. Wintry precipitation continued to expand northeastward through the morning hours and as of 12:30pm EST, we have a stripe of snow spanning from Davenport, IA through…

Good morning everyone! Our incoming disturbance is starting to make its appearance known in the southwestern corner of the region where precipitation is initially starting as some light snow before transitioning to a mix, including freezing rain. The southern quarter of IL is receiving freezing rain with places such as…

Good afternoon everyone! We are going to skip right into Sunday as the weather today will remain mostly sunny. The next storm system we've been discussing over the last several days is expected to bring a round of light snow accumulations, especially over the northern half of the region Sunday…