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Another burst of wet snow mixed in at the tail-end of a shower that just passed through. You can see that just aloft the precip is all snow, so if a heavy enough burst lasted more than 5 minutes it would have been capable of shifting over to heavy snow at the surface. Unfortunately the showers are fairly small in nature.

81 now. We still haven't had an 80 here yet this year. MLI has only had 1, and that was back on Apr 7th.

A heavy rain shower just passed through, and at the tail-end had wet snow flakes mixed in. Temp dropped from 46 to 43.

Wind chills range from 24-27 over south-central/southeast WI early this afternoon. Brutal. It's 65 at Fairbanks AK right now. They're gonna make a run at 80 this afternoon.

43 degrees with 35mph winds at noon on May 10th. Still holding on to the chance for a little graupel later this afternoon if we can get under a heavy enough convective shower.

Wouldn't be surprised to see graupel mix in here late tomorrow afternoon if the convective showers shown on the 3km NAM materialize. A little cape and low freezing heights. Prob no regular snow flakes though.

28 here this morning. Tomorrow, 40s and rain.

Only 52 for a high today, but it seemed warmer with the sun out all day.

Those bad boys are mean as hell. If you're gonna shoot their nest with a bee-bee gun, make sure you have a clean escape route, and fast transportation away from the area.

We reached 99 degrees less than 6 weeks after our last snow flakes that season.

Only made it to 48 today, with a steady light rain all day. Picked up 1.05" since last evening.

The ol' sun angle might have something to say about that lol.

Are we gonna have a homicidal wasp thread?

Euro continues to advertise snow showers/flurries for northeast IL on Friday. Also much of MI. Wish we could get in on it. If it's gonna be so miserable outside might as well have something to show for it.

Yellowstone?

Unless something changes on the models that will bust. Could spend most of the day in the mid 40s with cold rain falling. Maybe we can sneak in a 50 reading early in the day before the steadier rains move in.

It's gonna be in the 40s all day Tue with rain. It might as well be snowing lol.

12z Euro shows some flurries around the Chicago area on Friday lol. Meanwhile, today is fantastic. Lots of sun after some morning clouds, and temps have jumped into the 70s.

Early planting is usually kind of a waste of time anyway. Nothing really takes off until we start getting the warm/humid nights consistently, which is usually June. Everything explodes in growth then, so if you planted something late it would usually catch up to whatever was planted early/successfully anyway.

We have 99 confirmed at ours, with 2 deaths. That's with only 2 counties reporting, there's about 3 other counties with workers that haven't reported.

Today was quite lame.

With some work you could clone those out in Photoshop/Lightroom if you shot in raw format.

All I wanna know is if MLB is ever going to give money back to their fans for tickets already purchased? So far there have been no refunds for games that should have already been played. I guess the games are still technically postponed, which is ridiculous cause the games will not be made up, especially with fans in attendance. I have 3 tickets for Yankee game May 24 at Skankee Stadium. Was really looking forward to seeing a game there, even if it isn't the original house that Baby Ruth built. Anyway, what the MLB is pulling right now with their loyal fans in the midst of this financial crisis is enough for me to vow that I will never purchase one of their tickets ever again. I hope more do the same. **** them.

SPC removed most of north IL from the day 2 threat. Euro and RGEM both continue to develop some precip over the area, so I guess we'll have to see how things evolve.

18z 3km NAM continues to show expansive cloud cover that severely limits surface heating for most of the risk area Tuesday. Will be interesting to see if the HRRR shows this as well when we get within 36hrs. If the NAM verifies this one is DOA.