NEW YouTube video out now!
Watch as @EvanHeemstraWx and I chase high-precipitation supercells in Illinois and Wisconsin during a tornado outbreak across the region!
Rainfall! Much needed for some areas, while others got denied. To make it easy to read, here is what each color means.
Black (background) - No Rain
Gray - 0.01-0.1"
Green - 0.1-0.49"
Blue - 0.5-0.99"
Yellow-Red - 1-3"+
This will help the drought monitor for a few locations in next week's release. Tomorrow's drought monitor update, however, will likely show more areas of drought forming since data was calculated yesterday.
Post as of 1 pm EDT 8/19/26.
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It's time to say this.. The big storm chasers always say "young storm chasers should chase lower end risks" but when these young, amateur Storm Chaser make a mistake in the field on these 2 percents, they get fried like McDonald's fries. Put the 🍟in the 👜