So here it is, the last day of December, and what a strange month it's been. Temperatures alone have been all over the board, with 2 morning lows of 8 below and 2 days with highs of 50. Typically, the month gets colder as it progresses. Not this year, with the first half of December averaging 13.6 degrees below normal. Then came the big flip and the second half of the month averaged 7.9 degrees above normal. Manic to say the least. Here's the actual breakdown of the individua

A powerful winter storm steam rolled the Midwest Sunday and Monday with a wide variety of weather ranging from blizzard conditions to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. The National Weather Service reported over 1,000 storm reports including snow, straight line winds, and even a few tornadoes in EC Illinois Sunday through Monday morning. While my counties in SE Iowa and WC Illinois did experience thunderstorms, wind, and some snow showers, the worst of the stronger storms an

Bitter cold and strong wind gusts are leading to widespread sub-zero wind chills in the region. The coldest air will reside where the highest snow accumulation occurred Sunday and Sunday night to the northwest. The good news is wind gusts will be diminishing through the day today leading to less painful wind chill values Tuesday morning. The bad news is that the powerful winds will lead to blizzard conditions with extremely hazardous if not impossible travel conditions to the

A powerful and dynamic weather system is taking shape across the Great Lakes Sunday which will feature rain, thunderstorms, powerful wind gusts, snow and blowing snow and crashing temperatures. An area of low pressure is projected to drop nearly 24mb in 24 hours, the definition of bombogenesis, or rapid deepening and strengthening of a weather system. Showers and a few thunderstorms will continue to move through the region through Sunday morning an early afternoon prior to co

After an exceptional 3-week period of cold and snowy weather February 27th to December 16th, winter just packed up and left. The upper level steering currents were completely re-aligned and much of the last 10 days have been spent in the 30s and 40s, and the 20–25 inches of snow that fell in the wintry stretch was essentially wiped out by the warmth. Here's the temperature departures across North America over the past 10 days. More than 90 percent of the continental U.S. has