Chicago Storm

This period at ORD... As mentioned before no records were broken, and it probably was not as significant as it could have been, but still fairly unusual.

Tomorrow definitely holds potential, but all hinges on tonight/tomorrow mornings activity. SGT risk looks good for now, but could need upgrade to ENH in the morning once everything becomes clear.

It's the same temperature.

Local threat possible on Thursday.

But also had the highest test count as well, around 30k.

No records at ORD or RFD during this period. So while highly anomalous and unusual/rare, it wasn't record breaking at official sites in the area.

Had snow flurries here earlier this morning.

ORD didn't report any snow, yet everywhere else surrounding did. Chalk up another observer fail.

All snow here now, coming down at a good clip and with good flake size. Welcome to May.

Flipping to snow here now. Looks like it''ll be brief, with heavier precip looking to quickly exit within the next hour.

0.26" at MKE thus far.

Snow being reported across the northern tier of IL counties now. Temps steadily falling across NE IL, so there's a good shot ORD ends up seeing some flakes.

These are significant... 0140 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 E FORT WAYNE 41.07N 85.10W 05/10/2020 ALLEN IN PUBLIC WIRES DOWNED, TREES INTO HOUSES. PRIMARILY EAST SIDE OF FORT WAYNE INTO NEW HAVEN. 0210 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 S FORT WAYNE 41.05N 85.14W 05/10/2020 ALLEN IN AMATEUR RADIO 15-20 FOOT TREE DOWNED AT ARCADIA CT. AND HOAGLAND AVE. TREE PARTIALLY BLOCKING ARCARDIA CT.

Even with that length of period, I take it no accums?

Several damage reports down that way as well, so seems valid.

FWA G78MPH with that line of weak convection moving through.

Made it down to 27 here this morning. .

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Down into the low-mid 30's across NE IL and SE WI as of 1z. Northerly Island is down to 35 as well.

Any snow around here looking doubtful now. .

Looking increasingly likely the following happens... Frost for portions of the area Thur night/Fri morning, freeze/hard freeze for the entire area Fri night/Sat morning, and isolated/scattered rain/snow showers Fri. Then looks like a chance precip ends as snow with the clipper-like system in the vicinity of Sun, before another frost/freeze for the two nights following it. I wouldn't say any record is a lock for this period, but there are a few that will be close...such as the record low max on Fri and record low min on Sat.

Just like that high of 70 on April 25th was gonna be the last 70+ day of April...only to hit 76 three days later, on the 28th. .

Protests over the stay at home order starting up downtown today.

Our in-house magic 8-ball has spoken.

While we are in imagination mode...