Andrew Pritchard

It's 11 degrees outside with a roaring wind gusting to 50 mph sending wind chills below zero, but I was chasing tornadoes yesterday evening. Cold season storm chasing... Got out and about in the Decatur IL area yesterday as rain-wrapped tornadoes ripped through causing damage in the Mount Zion and Long Creek areas. Grabbed a view of "the area" east of Long Creek while I drifted through the rain for a couple hours following storms back toward home. Here's a little video from the chase,...

Classic clash of the air masses today as warm and humid air surges northward into the Midwest, with bitterly cold Arctic air blasting across the Dakotas. The result will be a dynamic, high impact storm system with blizzard and winter storm conditions across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, with a springlike severe weather setup in the warm sector across portions of Illinois and Indiana. The severe risk across Illinois and Indiana comes in two distinct rounds. First, as the warm front lifts...

Unseasonably deep moisture and a dynamic storm system will have an environment supportive of severe thunderstorms lifting into portions of the Midwest on Sunday, Dec 28. I'll be totally honest, my head is not in the game right now, it's the holidays, I've got a million things going on that aren't severe weather and storm chasing focused, but the risk for organized severe storms is significant enough that I wanted to make a quick post and take an opportunity to try out some new weather...