WINTER STORM WATCHES AND WARNINGS A complex late winter storm will come at the Midwest in 2 phases Saturday night into Monday. We get out of the first phase in good shape, our neighbors to the north not so much, with heavy snow and ice in Minnesota and central and northern Wisconsin where warnings are in effect. Locally, we get our crack Sunday night when the second phase of the storm comes to life bringing a snow threat along with powerful winds and crashing temperatures int

Currently an extremely energetic weather pattern is unfolding that promises to bring high impact weather to the Midwest into early next week. Two areas of significant snow are expected. The first wave Saturday night and Sunday impacts Minnesota as well as central and northern Wisconsin. Snowfall totals of up to a foot (locally more) are possible in that event. A second wave of energy associated with a deepening trough develops a surface low in SE Iowa that tracks towards Chic

A WINTER STORM WATCH FOR SUNDAY NIGHT NORTH OF I-80 Details on this last minute development later in the post! A significant late winter storm is expected to blast the upper Midwest Saturday night through Monday morning. The storm has the potential to be of historic proportions (that's according to the NWS) over parts of southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, where 18-24 inches of snow could fall in spots. Combined with 50 mph winds, blizzard conditions are expected in that genera

Tuesday in Galesburg, Illinois (while I chased tornadoes), I had the pleasure of enjoying an 80 degree temperature for the first time in 5 months. Wednesday, back at my home in Dubuque it snowed much of the day, with a reading at noon of 34 degrees. A stiff NW wind had the wind chill at 22 degrees. That was a serious wake-up call. So much for the summer preview! I'm sorry to say there's a lot more where that came from and the next 6-7 days we will be riding the crazy train. T

March 10th is not the typical time of year to be tooling down the highway in search of a twister. Yet, that is where I found myself Tuesday morning, sailing down Route 61 towards a target somewhere E/SE of the Quad Cities. While the sun was out when I left, the temperature was just 41 degrees when I exited the city limits of Dubuque, (far from tornado weather). Where I was headed, robust readings around 80 were expected with unusual amounts of humidity. That contrast is one o