Winter storm warning continues until 10 00 a. M. Winter weather advisories until 7 00 p. M. Winter storm warnings until 4 00 in some areas. Temperatures are freezing the will drop to about 20 this afternoon. Wind chill in the teens and 20s but visibility is reduced as the snow is falling heavy south of the city. Snowfall coming down pretty good right now especially from the city to the south along 80 thats where we will see the have the bands setting up. We will soon in to enhance and you can see the darker shade of blue just south of city down. The Downers Grove area and then a band of heavy precipitation all the way to morris. This will continue through the next hour. Kicking off rapidly. But the snow is falling at one2 in. Per hour weve had reports of lightning and thunder with the snow. Its a big mess. How much damage will be today . Lets find out the traffic. We are seen drifting snow, very heavy snow and in many cases icy Road Conditions. Use caution this morning. Reports that he
Of the damage is done for small towns. All within 40 mi. Of each other. About an hour and half north west of omaha. Have been telling people for many years that i have not seen a tornado all my life. I got to see something today that wish i had never seen. Officials are assessing damage right now. Do storms and possibly a tornado moves through parts of southern wisconsin overnight. A storm pack dangerously high wind and hit shortly after midnight. The National Weather service says a tornado may have touched down. How early today looking at the damage. Stansel summer class system. Asking people to avoid the campus until further notice. City manager has declared a state of emergency. The body of a missing swimmer has been recovered. The victim was one of four teenagers who jumped off a pier. 18 yearold was working on a g. D. Trying to get his life back on track. He went in for a swim and according to friends and relatives he was not a strong swimmer. A bin in the waters off of a hollow b
Wind will be coming out of the southwest early which will allow us to get warmed up. 52 degrees at the lakefront. 51 at midway. A nice warm temperature for the Early Morning. It is completely dry right now. This line is coming through minnesota. Its a cold front that will bring us the chance of showers even the potential thunderstorm. You can see on the computer model that the rain comes in and around lunchtime. Then the showers become likely are around 3 00 p. M. Tonight we dry out and we wait for the next system to arrive on saturday. Warm temperatures in the upcoming seven day. Tomorrow we make 65 degrees. Mostly sunny friday. Its a keeper. Saturday we have showers and thunderstorms developing in the day. The higher reaches 70. With some construction on the kennedy everything is shut down between ohio to montrose is should be picked up later this morning. Bishop ford along Stoney Island exit the toward over to 111. Thats the new construction project that kicked off a few days ago. N
Are two halves i know. Lets take a look. Today, temperatures once again really warm outside. There that you wear. Warm conditions. You know that its really feeling like afternoon. By a very mild temperatures today will be 11 degrees above the average. 79 degrees already. Typically we make 81. Areas which have seen the rain had also seen the cooled down. 66 in waukegan. Nine degrees cooler in some areas. The radar shows light showers across the area heavier rain continues to do well off to the north. Heres the day planner pierre take your umbrella there is a good chance of showers and storms to develop again tonight. Our temperature will fall down to 72 tonight. I have one crash early on at 57 heading south bound at 111. Watch for an added delay. Otherwise the rest of the roads look good. Some overnight roadwork the we will review and a few minutes. We begin with breaking news this morning out of wisconsin. There are reports of two tornadoes in the madison, wisconsin, area. One in madis
Preconditions showers and even some thunderstorms south of the region. We are going to have when the conditions south of 80. Temperatures are staying in the 60s. Lukens the rain in the region. The good news is it is just rain right now. The heaviest of the rain is pushing into South Central county. As to continue down to lasalle piquancy that heavy rain making its way through. No thunder and lightning. In pontiac its coming down pretty well. Low pressure system a wave that is rolling up. Take a look at the powerful storms coming through. This is where the worst is going to be. Severe weather we will have the off chance of seeing something stronger today. 71 degrees right now. 66 in lansing. Temperatures are going wrong way. Showers are likely. Down to 51 tonight. It will be cooler high of 71. With a crash on 294 at 95 still has several lanes down. A car that flipped over. Good backups on the tristate. Other than that we still have some work out by the airport at 190. Its really getting