MASSIVE TORNDO OUTBREAK - IL, IA, WI...

[2naSalit]

So many are springing up that they aren't able to put up warnings fast enough!

[Brenda]

1. Oh no, I hate that crap!

I have lived through two horrific, historic tornado outbreaks in my life so far: one in Ohio, one in the Deep South.

Hope people take the warnings seriously and prepare, follow the local weather news and live through it.

[SheltieLover]

2. Stay safe, all!

[Maninacan]

3. Good info

I am right in the path east of Janesville WI. keeping an eye on it.

[2naSalit]

5. I used to live on...

Either side of there. Was in Algonquin, IL when I was married decades ago and Madison, WI & Mt Horeb, WI when I got single afterward. I remember bad storm days like this but they might not have been this bad.

Stay Safe!

[2naSalit]

13. There's something coming at you!

Take shelter!

[Maninacan]

15. Missed Me

Very close, took the pups down to the basement. A pine tree snapped and fell across the driveway.
Got it cleared with the battery chainsaw.

[2naSalit]

17. Thank goodness...

It was only that. Last time I was in the vicinity of a twister, I actually wasn't there but my vehicle was and though there was a lot of damage done to the buildings and many trees where it was parked, four tall trees laid down around it and didn't touch it. I did have to wait for the guys with the saws to cut them up so I could leave. Truly surreal.

[Passages]

4. Random off the charts weather systems blow in and blow up.

Horrifying.

[2naSalit]

6. I'm concerned...

That this sort of thing may become more common with climate change.

[Passages]

10. We share that fear. All of this is connected imho to climate change.

[Emile]

7. Supposed to hit here after midnight.

[Passages]

11. Stay safe!

[canetoad]

8. Good wishes

For everyone's safety.

[2naSalit]

9. This is just crazy...

Haven't seen tornado outbreaks like this since the mid 1970s. I used to live in that area in Wisconsin and Illinois.

This is really bad and is the third or fourth day this week that these kind of storms have been happening. Glad I went further east for my last move! We'll get some of the rain but the tornado stuff will not be coming this far east, at least not likely.

[malaise]

12. Batten down and stay safe folks

[wnylib]

14. OMG! I remember reading about this probable forecast

for today in the Midwest when checking yesterday for any threatening weather in my region (eastern Great Lakes). There was a tornado warning Wednesday not far from me and we've had some bad thunderstorms here this past week so I've been checking weather to the West of us since westerly winds often bring storms this way.

Hope people stay safe. From what I read, It was expected to get really bad in the Midwest today.

[NickB79]

16. Trump cut the budget for weather balloons last year, and now we have gaps in coverage

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/weather-balloons-stop-trump-cuts-forecasts-less-accurate-rcna198055

Twice a day — at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. ET — meteorologists simultaneously launch the balloons, which are equipped with instruments called radiosondes that measure temperature, humidity and wind speed. They rise about 15 feet per second for two hours, traveling through layers of the atmosphere and sending pings of data back using radio waves.

When the air gets too thin, the balloons pop and fall back to Earth with little parachutes — mission complete.

Data from the balloons feeds into weather models that are the backbone of forecasts across the United States, whether they’re delivered by a local television broadcaster or on your iPhone.

But many of the release sites — at least 10 in the continental United States — have suspended or limited launches because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service staff.

Expect a lot more "unforeseen" extreme weather events to occur, with much less warning.