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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.

Great shots! Made it to 66 here today. The lawn has really taken off lately. Dandelions are in full bloom across the landscape. Most trees have leafed out, but a few of the stubborn/late leafers are still holding out, waiting for May I guess. Farmers have been out in area fields quite a bit the past week or so. Should start to see corn sprouting in another week or so in certain fields.

Damn. According to the Euro we are done with temps AOB freezing, assuming a real cold snap doesn't show up beyond 10 days. I think our average last freeze is around April 30th IRRC.

Temp shot up 10 degrees in the past hour, from 66 to 76. Pretty impressive late day surge.

Cloudy all day but we still made it into the 70s. Had a few brief showers this morning.

That's like a zombie snowman lolz

Had a few flurries earlier, snow squalls missed north/northeast today.

Getting a nice mid-April snow squall atm. Yesterday's near 70 degree warmth now a distant memory.

Gave it a good run. MLI made it to 69, and we hit 67. Took advantage of it and got quite a bit done outside. Some decaying Iowa slopping seconds about to move in, along with the cold front.

Looks like we have a shot at 70 today, with quite a bit of sunshine getting us off to a fast start this morning. HRRR has upper 60s, with dews near 60 later on. Could get a good storm with the passage of the front early this evening, and then cold and very windy tomorrow.

Yeah spring fever is in full bloom after the 80 degree warmth recently. The chilly next several days is gonna be hard to take. Many tree species have started to leaf out some, and most people have mowed at least once. One positive is maybe the cold will knock back the first batch of gnats and mosquitoes, which have been surprisingly prolific and frisky the past week.

Had a few very heavy showers of graupel around mid-afternoon. The shower that hit around 4pm was mostly snow, with a little graupel mixed in. That one was quite heavy as well, albeit brief. It's definitely been an entertaining afternoon, and a far cry from yesterday's upper 70s lol. MLI gusted to 58mph so far, hit 48mph on my home station, 5ft above the ground.

Ma nature balancing things out a bit, as we had that 3.5" deluge a few weeks ago. We were split again by today's activity. Did manage to pick up 0.01" though. Temp has crashed from 75 back to 53, with very gusty north winds. MLI made it to 79.

Made it to 78 here, and 79 at MLI. Had quite a bit of cloud cover that lasted into early afternoon, otherwise low to mid 80s would have been likely. Nice thunderhead gracing the northern horizon, with a nice flank of TCU feeding in from the left (west-southwest). EDIT: Seen MLI hit 81 at 5:05 ob, so that should be at least 80.

I'm done with winter, but if it would do something like that I'd be down for it.

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.

3km NAM and HRRR are worlds apart with how tomorrow will be in the warm sector. The 3km NAM has us at 68 at 21z tomorrow, while the HRRR has us at 83. HRRR also mixes so deep that it lowers surface dews down below 60.

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.

3km NAM looks to be way under-doing surface temps compared to the Euro. It looks like it has extensive cloud cover that limits heating throughout the day, and resulting in a stout EML above the cooler surface temps. The Euro has been advertising a much more mixed, warmer surface regime for many days, and results in surface temps 10+ degrees warmer. It continues to insist on convection taking off later Tue afternoon over northern IL, in a fairly impressive thermodynamic environment. It will be interesting to see which model wins out.

Yeah there's definitely some conditional potential there. 00z NAM showing some capping around H8 that would limit potential. Would make sense with warm southwesterly flow feeding into the area above the BL. Not much in the way of height falls either to help. EC has been consistent in breaking out precip/convection around 00z late Tue, so that is encouraging. Previous runs of the NAM have less capping compared to the new 00z, so hopefully trends reverse with subsequent NAM cycles.

Freezing rain in April, 6 days after what very easily could have been a major tornado outbreak. Gotta love it.

Hopefully we can tag our first 80 Tue. Euro shows over 1500J/Kg of cape, so hopefully we can get some good convection later in the day as well.

Made it to 65 here. CF passed about 2:30 or so, and have since dropped back to 50.

Still working 5-6 days a week, with over 2000 employees where I work. There are personnel taking everyones temps upon arrival everyday, but fever may not show up until other symptoms arise, which would be too late. I pretty much plan on getting it at some point over the next month or two. If I don't that's great. If so, hopefully I'll kick it's ass and move on. Outside of work I just do my best to minimize exposure to others as much as possible.

Looks like mid 60s Thu & Fri here, and then 70s Mon & Tue. This time next week I suspect the leaves will be creeping out of their swollen buds.