Nasty Midwestern Weather

Think we've got it bad here in Sioux Falls or the rest of the Sioux Empire? You should see some of the pictures coming out of Illinois and Wisconsin, and now storms moving into Indiana. They're seeing flooding rains just days after 5 or more inches of snow, and some pretty strong to severe thunderstorms as well.

They're getting some definitely unwanted rain in the Chicago area today, with some areas picking up anywhere from 3/4" of rain to 2.75" - on top of ice and snow from earlier in the week! Look at this image below:

If you look closely on the left of that picture you can see numbers associated with the colors. Those are radar estimated rainfall totals in inches. Lots of rain in that area!

Not only that, but as I'm writing this (about 5:50pm Saturday) we are seeing a line of severe thunderstorms moving into western Kentucky. Look at this radar image - it almost looks like we're in a summer type of weather pattern:

You can see a nice little squall line moving into the Paducah, KY, area. We'll be seeing all that stuff back in the Sioux Empire soon enough, but for now at least it's farther toward the east with the damaging winds and tornado threats.

Have a great night! Enjoy the period of more calm weather we're seeing.

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer