Author: Chief Meteorologist Michael Clark

Good morning!  Here are the updated 7-day forecasts: Total rain over the past 24 hours: Storm risks work into northwest Illinois toward Saturday evening, then we'll see more widespread coverage of storms developing over the area Sunday afternoon into Monday morning from north to south with this front bringing 0.25" to 0.75" in general.…

Video: http://youtu.be/0O71AYYDw1Q?hd=1 A cold front brings our best chance for storms Saturday night-Sunday....we do think many locations in Iowa are 0.50" to 1.50" range given high moisture content and better forcing in Iowa vs. further west in Nebraska.  Models will struggle with exact placement of heavier totals due to the…

Video: http://youtu.be/EyMxmYj-T6Y?hd=1 Rain over the past 24 hours: Ridge of high pressure is in full effect today keeping conditions dry.  We'll have an outside chance of a dying shower making it to northern Illinois Saturday morning, but the main chances there aren't until late Saturday afternoon and evening.  As a…

Today's video: http://youtu.be/JCJufDc9e-A?hd=1 Observed rainfall over the past 24 hours is below, where areas across the eastern half of the state stayed virtually dry and areas northwest did indeed see scattered showers and storms like we mentioned there would be...the coverage, however, around the Cincy metro area definitely popped a…

Updated Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmEPT-ONdI&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 Forecast radar from 1pm (now) to 8pm this evening shows the area of storms in northern Indiana, along with widely scattered development expected from east-central Indiana to western Ohio where we have a higher amount of instability present, on the edge of our building heat ridge coming…

Good morning!  Here are the updated 7-day forecasts: Good morning!  We are watching a storm cluster in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin which will try to move southeast into parts of northern Indiana later this morning into about mid-afternoon....it will track along a building gradient of instability and could produce…

Video: http://youtu.be/A2C1ayDlR2A?hd=1 Total rain over the past 24 hours: Several high wind reports in western Illinois yesterday: Heavy storms target northern Illinois this morning....areas from Freeport too Waukegan to near Chicago could pick up 1-2" of rainfall as this passes before noon.   This could produce some wind damage as…