Had a backyard chase
today....literally. Was on two hour sleep, my car was unavailable today,
and I wasn't too excited about the MCS going downstate. I went to bed
at 11 AM and woke up at 3 PM. I talked with Adam Lucio and Matt Fischer
as they sat in Rochelle, IL, waiting for something...anything. The line
of low topped "crapvection" was quickly marching east and it was only a
matter of time before the threat was over. By luck, I glanced out my
window at 6 PM to find solid convection going up all over suburban
Chicago. So I grabbed my camera and fired off a few shots. Before long
the storm to my south I had been taking structure shots of, went severe
warned and was more or less making a bee-line for me. The storm produced
pretty gusty winds, 40-50 mph gusts, torrential rain but minimal
lightning/thunder. What made me happy was the beautiful rainbow
appearing against the tornado warned cell in northwest Indiana.
May 2nd, 2008 - Evergreen Park, IL
