A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly

Some powerful storms hit Central Illinois late Tuesday afternoon. Heavy rain and even hail pelted the town of Paxton, Illinois, about half an hour north of Champaign. There was also a tornado on the ground there,

Unfortunately it’s short lived, as the clouds and showers fill in Wednesday afternoon and evening ahead of a wet stretch of weather!

Indeed, the models are showing the precipitation type as snow or mixed precipitation for the highest elevations of the Bigelow mountain range in Maine and parts of the White Mountains in New Hampshire...