Unpredictable Weather

No storms materialized in Indiana overnight and the morning storms are still slowly making their way across Illinois. Wednesday looked to be a big day for tornadoes over much us the upper plain states and Wisconsin and eastern Iowa/western Illinois looked to have a tornado outbreak for the record books. The conditions were very favorable and storm chasers came from all over the US and even foreign countries for this possible big event.

Of course looking at the models there would occasionally be something telling you the event was going to bust. There would be a little activity but nothing on the scale everyone was anticipating. A few chasers would mention the bust potential but the optimistic wouldn't listen. Who could blame them. Imagine being a storm chaser and sitting out one of the biggest days ever and likely the biggest days and biggest consecutive days in 2007. You just are not going to take that chance.

Well yesterday had 15 total tornado reports with the warm cap in the atmosphere never breaking. The best sets of storms seemed to come after 10 PM in northern Illinois but by then the energy was gone to really get the storms breaking out.

The anticipated weather for Indiana came up way short. The cold front pushing this way is moving terribly slow. Some storms are active in Illinois and there is a slight chance for severe weather in Indiana through 4 PM today. But if you look at things, I could see the Kokomo area getting no severe weather and even no rainfall. (See - I said it so now we will get hit with storms and a good drenching. Even mother nature falls for reverse psychology.)

The only good news (for me) is I didn't drive 1700 miles over the past 2 days chasing storms and bust with nothing to show but a huge gas bill.