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Rock, this will be a soaking rain with storms later today from southern illinois through indianapolis. indianapolis, you start dry. same goes for chicago, too. let's try to time this out. this is at 8:00 a.m. this morning. that area from st. louis to springfield continued with that thunderstorm three. notice it's spotty in northern illinois. as we go through the lunch hour that heavy rain in st. louis is coming to an end. chicago is dry by your lunch hour as we head towards the afternoon dry, these are sneaking up there into the southern portions of wisconsin. again, it will not be an all out,...

A possibility here, so we will have the wind in addition to the rain and likely significant power outages. look at the precipitation forecast. yellow and reds, that is additional 3- 5 inches of rain in the mountains. highest elevations seeing snowfall totals as well. that is great news. the store tore becomes a separate story in the eastern part of the country. look at temperatures. minus 20 in fargo; minus 25 in fargo. and minus 25 in minneapolis. cold air is in place. the storm from the west will move in to where the cold air is. blue is temperatures below 0. where you see the pink here is a...

North and east. a tornado watch in effect, that's been posted for parts of -- for illinois. it gets just about to chicago. chicago, you're about to get some thunderstorms. most of which shouldn't be severe but don't be surprised if you get heavy rain and flash flooding or street flooding and maybe some gusty winds. this is the area, though, we think we'll see the roughest weather today. more likely beginning in the next couple hours as we get heating of the day. east of st. louis, through indianapolis, and east towards detroit as well. it's all part of the same system that brought the severe w...