There was something not quite right about the severe weather outbreak that tore across the Midwest late Tuesday and into Wednesday.
At least 24 tornado reports were recorded with more than 162 high wind reports and more than 200 hail reports, and while this wouldn't be a strange occurrence for a weather pattern in March or April, it happened at the end of February.
This is not normal.
On a typical last night of February in Chicago, snow would be in the air, or at least on the ground. But not this year. In a city where for the first time in 146 years of record-keeping there was no snow on the ground at all in January or February, the skies lit up with streaks of lightning on Tuesday night. Read more...
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