The Kankakee supercell went from almost exclusively a large hailer west of town to a cyclic tornado producer with no hail greater than 1" reported east of town, with an overlap in Kankakee

Check out this new footage of the Kankakee, IL tornado from yesterday! Come for the blitzing funnel moving at lightning speeds, stay for the insane hailstorm raining into the Kankakee River! 🎥: Matt and Patricia Olzewski #severewx #wxsky

Best shot I'm going to get of it. Power flashes as it crossed US41

Rain. Wrapped.

I am bailing. Nice line of chasers racing east

View as of 6:55CT

Whatever's back there is rain and hail-wrapped.

With the setting sun

Zoomed out view of the Kankakee supercell

Current view east of Kankakee. Crazy CG lightning

Limited visibility view of the Kankakee meso

Visibility is not great

Here we go

Not quite 70F here at 18Z but still impressive.

Brought on by a big oceanic downwelling kelvin wave that originated in the west Pacific in early January!

Interesting convergence near Galesburg, IL. @vortexjeff.bsky.social

The headline that highlights the absurd form of American fascism we now live with:

Truly a perfect news alert

Quite a few 70°F+ dewpoint readings showing up in the Mid Mississippi Valley. It's March 10th.

@agitatedcu.bsky.social good call

he's looking for an off ramp so hard because of gas prices, lmao

500 mb standardized departures for the Dec-Feb period. There's a +3.5 std. dev. contour over the 4-Corners region.

I will LIGHT MYSELF ON FIRE with $5/gallon gas

whoa what the fuck is that Minneapolis line??? that's psychotic.

In Lindsey Graham speak, that means they're going to get their dicks sucked.

Iran's only real offensive is a global energy crisis

You'd think that they'd think the NWS is purposely over-rating tornado damage in order to build a narrative to support a claim that anthropogenic global warming is causing more destructive tornadoes. But, actually, no... they're pissed because of a lack of 4 and 5 ratings coming out.

They're literally saying DON'T BE A PANICAN because we always get a TACO

lmao

NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted. I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.

“.. He is the first president in the era of modern polling to take the United States to war without the support of the public.” @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Michigan warm front in March

BREAKING: Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike the U.S. military, AP sources say.

Breaking news: The Army abruptly canceled a major training exercise, officials said, fueling speculation within the Defense Department that soldiers specializing in ground combat and a range of other missions may be sent to the Middle East.

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February" "Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs" "OK, so that was wrong in the script"

Today’s weak jobs report raises new questions about Biden’s economic policies

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Quite the cute little MCV over the Gulf today.

be a shame if somebody accidentally unplugged it

“.. Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

NEW: Trump is preparing to fire DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and is looking for replacements, according to the Wall Street Journal

The fact that we have never done anything to enforce the Constitution on this shows that we are deeply unserious.

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

One economist surveyed said "There will be a reduction in domestic manufacturing jobs and also they're gonna come after me for trying to molest a 14-year-old boy." Kind of a strange macroeconomic forecast but alright.

Trump's trade policies have exactly the impact on US manufacturing that most macroeconomists said they would.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"