Published Tuesday May 28 2013 7:20 pm. Tags: Flash Flood Watch, National Weather Service, NWS
Flash Flood Warning already exists for areas near Peoria and Pontiac. Most of Northern Illinois except for northern tier counties (Lake, McHenry, etc) are under a Flash Flood Watch. At about 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, heavy thunderstorms, indicated by radar [LIVE RADAR] are on the move east-northeast at about Interstate 80 — covering the western half [...]
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Published Monday May 27 2013 6:30 am. Tags: Memorial Day, Weather Forecast
At 6:15 a.m. weather radar [LIVE RADAR] indicated showers are south of Arlington Heights and the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, and are passing to the east. One area of precipitation is south of I-88, and another area of precipitation is south of I-80. There is also some precipitation near the Illinois-Wisconsin border heading eastward. About [...]
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Published Sunday May 26 2013 6:24 pm. Tags: Beach Hazard Statment, National Weather Service
LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
402 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013
LAKE IL-COOK-
402 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013
…BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING [...]
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Published Friday May 24 2013 8:48 pm. Tags: lunar eclipse, Moon
Moon Phases for 2013 from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. May’s Full Moon is known as the Flower Moon, Rose Moon or Strawberry Moon. Tonight’s Moon is a Supermoon, but it also has the distinction of having one of the slightest eclipses of all — a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. You might notice [...]
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Posted in Night Sky
Published Wednesday May 22 2013 6:38 am. Tags: cool forecast, Weather Forecast
At least two or three hours of light rain with possibly a little thunder indicated by radar this morning. We might hit 72°F at noon, then temps are expected to fall after 3:00 p.m. down to a low of 51°F Thursday morning. TODAY Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 71. South southwest wind 5 [...]
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Published Monday May 20 2013 10:27 pm. Tags: Severe Thunderstorm Warning
BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 958 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013 Radar indicates a quick incidence of severe thunderstorms possible followed by light rain and some lightning and thunder for a couple of hours. The closest severe weather is indicated in southern DuPage County headed north-northeast [...]
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Published Monday May 20 2013 7:59 pm. Tags: Severe Thunderstorm Watch
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 196 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 750 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013 Radar at 7:55 p.m. CDT shows thunderstorm crossing the Mississippi River in west central Illinois. At 7:52 p.m. Peoria is under a Tornado Watch and a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Storms could reach southwest Chicagoland [...]
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Published Sunday May 19 2013 9:57 pm. Tags: NWS, Severe Thunderstorm Warning
BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 922 PM CDT SUN MAY 19 2013 UPDATE: The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northern Cook… Lake… northern dupage… northeastern De Kalb… eastern Boone… McHenry and northern Kane counties is cancelled… Note: Weather radar shows storms and precipitation heading north-northeast in far northwest [...]
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Published Sunday May 12 2013 4:02 pm. Tags: Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota
Witness video captures a wave of ice blanketing backyards and threatening houses in the Mille Lacs Lake area of Minnesota. High winds from a strong low pressure system and the almost ice covered lake caused what can only be called a Mini Glacier event on the south side of Mille Lacs Lake in the town [...]
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Published Sunday May 12 2013 6:34 am. Tags: frost advisory, National Weather Service
Temperatures overnight are expected to drop to about 36°F at about 2:00 a.m. Monday and 35°F about 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. Temperatures could be damaging to plant growth. A slight warmup is expected during the day Monday, followed by 80s Tuesday and Wednesday and upper 70s Thursday. URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE…CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE [...]
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Published Thursday May 09 2013 6:58 am. Tags: Hazardous Weather Outlook, Weather, Weather Forecast
Calm winds and high humidity this morning with a few power transformers blown this morning (locally near Palatine and Arlington Heights Road). The greatest chance for thunderstorms today is between 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. About one inch of rain possible between 12:30 p.m. Thursday and 6:30 a.m. Friday morning. Some thunderstorms could be heavy [...]
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Published Sunday May 05 2013 8:58 am. Tags: Iowa, Minnesota, record snow, snow, Wisconsin
Time-lapse video of the heavy snow in Owatonna, Minnesota on May 1-2, 2013. A record 15 inches of snow fell from the late evening of May 1, 2013 to the early morning of May 2, 2013. Snowfall rates were actually measured here and were consistently 2.5″/hour for several hours. A couple boxes were placed in [...]
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