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tornado warning now for the northern tier of Illinois (Antioch, IL) to the Wisconsin border

several considerable severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings in Illinois/Wisconsin

huge storm with 2" to 3" hail at Ottumwa Iowa (tornado warned for several minutes now)

This would be a crazy amount of snow for April

two new (unconfirmed) tornado warnings in Ohio with a cluster of storms

this was close to a family member in Indiana

now tornado warning west of Fort Wayne

My place got dumped on after 3:00

Day-3 outlook (Thursday) expanded around Chicago area.

I've heard the global temp anomaly temp today (or yesterday) is +0.897C. That's pretty crazy

With low snowpack, you will have fires in the Rockies. Let's hope it's not like 2020 or 2012. (Or perhaps some other years for Utah or Wyoming or whatever.)

Loop of the March 14th-16th blizzard and severe weather system https://great-lakes-salsite.web.app/Mar_14_2026_GFS_surface_loop.html

we've finally had a rainy month to possibly pull out of the drought some time

I am a short distance from you, and I didn't see hail. Weird, huh? Anyway, not a lot of thunder with the first storm, but more later. So glad we are getting rainfall. Now up to about 4.50" this month. My brother in Findlay ended up with small hail, barely missing the large hail.

The convection-allowing models show some huge storms with high shear in IL/IN/OH. There seems to be a window of a few hours tomorrow before the cold air catches up with the whole thing. The model soundings have some indicators of higher CAPE with elevated convection going later into the night.