Fear of Spring
I felt it last week. Spring.
The temperature rocketed up into the high-50s, and the atmosphere became unstable. That night was marked by incessant thunder and lightning and a torrential rain that prompted a Flash Flood Warning form the National Weather Service in Romeoville, Illinois. As far as severe weather, there was never anything to worry about. By the time the storm hit, the temperature had fallen into the 40s, which is too cold to support any meaningful punch. Strong thundestorms, for the most part, simply can’t survive in such conditions, but it was a warning of sorts. Storm season is coming.
As a Chicago suburbanite, I’m no stranger to bad thunderstorms, nor would I consider tornadoes a rarity having been relatively close to a couple of them myself. Hell, in the late summer of 2008, eight tornadoes touched down in Will County on the same day (a fact that … Read more
