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Good afternoon!  Wanted to quickly update you on timing of scattered storms that will mainly impact northern Illinois this evening from 6-11pm.  Storms may produce isolated hail and wind.  Here is the forecast radar from 5pm to 1am: Total precipitation through tonight: Northwest Illinois is under a marginal risk of…

Video: http://youtu.be/5_Z6hEEWF_c?hd=1 Precipitation risks will continue to decrease through the day from southwest to northeast with a mainly dry afternoon.  Dry Tuesday-Wednesday, brief showers Thursday morning, then chances for precipitation increase with a system late Friday into Saturday, but not expecting anything heavy.  Total precipitation over the next week: Wind…

Today's video: http://youtu.be/KrlvY8Vgk5o?hd=1 Observed precipitation from this weekend, with pockets of 0.25-0.75" noted across the Region: We are still dealing with some light rain across SE South Dakota and the southern half of Minnesota today, pushing more into Minnesota this afternoon. Latest precipitation guidance is below, favoring a dry and…

Today's Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHr0oLzK_jc&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 Good Monday morning. Hope you had a great Easter weekend! Today will be a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine and temperatures getting into the mid-70s. As we work into tomorrow, we'll have to carefully watch a wave of energy with a front that could lead to…

Today's Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7yfQ0V8_0A&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 Good Monday morning everyone! As we start our home stretch on Wednesday we are going to deal with rain and storm chances - some of which could be strong to severe. Tuesday could feature a few strong scattered storms but most of the activity stays to the…

Video: http://youtu.be/0np6NMwy1Ms?hd=1 Today's weather takeaways: Total rainfall observed last night with the scattered storms: Today we are drying out (for areas that got storms last night).  Rains will increase in SE Kansas after midnight and linger there all day Tuesday.  However, much of central, western, and northern Kansas will have…

Iowa Video: http://youtu.be/OcEkpGzZhjE?hd=1 Disturbance and cold front will bring scattered rain/storm risks today...but the greatest focus will be in the northern third of the state.  An isolated strong storm may develop in northeast counties this afternoon with hail and wind.  Rains quickly exit after sunset.  Total precipitation into the evening:…

Today's video: http://youtu.be/h65PCX49MJ8?hd=1 Month-to-date percent of normal precipitation is below...really showing the dryness building across the northern half of the state and continuing above normal moisture further south and east: Here's our favored rainfall guidance over the next 60 hours below...favoring along and south of I-44 for scattered pockets of…

Illinois Video: http://youtu.be/NbEFddeJzus?hd=1 A frontal system will bring the risk of a few widely scattered storms to the northwest portions of the state this afternoon into tonight.  There could be isolated large hail/gusty winds in northern and especially northwest counties.  I think scattered pockets of 0.1" to 0.3" of rain…

Ohio Video: http://youtu.be/p7nX6TnejBI?hd=1 Observed total precipitation this weekend is below...we really did end up being a state divided in rainfall with the eastern half of the state picking up very little moisture: Today will be a very nice warm and dry day...a weak cold front develops on our Tuesday afternoon…