00:00The birds often like big crashing waves here. I don't know if that just kind of slams some food up
00:05against the rocks, makes it more accessible.
00:06Oh, maybe, because otherwise this is like, I don't know why you would risk your life like that.
00:11It's true. It's feeding time. But it's not the forecast feed this time. We're just doing it the traditional way.
00:17We're looking at the forecast for the north-central, really the Midwest, where we're most concerned about severe weather on
00:23Thursday.
00:23So here we are Thursday, a big setup here with a dynamic contrast, very warm to the south in St.
00:29Louis, much colder to the north of the Northern Plains.
00:33And this boundary is going to be a troublemaker here, a cold front pushing south that will lead to severe
00:37thunderstorms and also, again, some disruptions.
00:41And the Major League Baseball season begins, by the way, on Thursday as well.
00:45So in Chicago, we're going to sneak this one in most likely before thunderstorms develop.
00:50And take a look at this. This doesn't necessarily fit the mold of what you may expect, typically warmth and
00:55humidity near the ground, fuel thunderstorms.
00:57Well, look at this. The lake breeze comes south at 10, 14 mile per hour north wind.
01:02That's an 8-degree drop from 2 p.m. at 60 to 52 at 3 p.m.
01:07You're going to want to bundle up there at Wrigley, dress for weather that's 15 degrees colder than the first
01:14pitch.
01:14It's going to get sharply colder. North wind at 16, driving temperatures down to 47 by 4 p.m. Central
01:21Time.
01:22Now, as it gets colder, this is counterintuitive, thunderstorms are going to develop.
01:26These are going to be driven by convective processes above the ground.
01:30We call this elevated convection.
01:31Not driven by what's going on at the ground, but by what's going on maybe 2,000 feet over your
01:35head.
01:36That will fuel some thunderstorms, possibly severe in Chicago, far more likely south, though.
01:41Best chance for severe weather on Thursday is going to be Illinois, Indiana, and western into central Ohio,
01:46but south of Interstate 80-90, which are concurrent there from Chicago east.
01:50So here we go. We're going to press pause on things as we get going.
01:53And moving into the day on Thursday, we have one renegade cluster of showers rolling southeast.
01:59But pressing pause at 3 p.m.
02:01Big thunderstorms breaking out near the Davenport and Quad Cities area, maybe near Rockford.
02:06And then that tumbles across Chicago into the evening, and Chicago facing some strong storms.
02:11But the best chance for severe weather is south of the city, Effingham, and into places near Fort Wayne and
02:16Indianapolis.
02:17Here we've got severe weather likely late Thursday, and then into Friday that pushes farther south, and colder air rolls
02:22on in.
02:23So it's going to be a big contrast.
02:24Severe threats involve damaging wind, flash flooding, and hail.
02:27So, Anna, big concerns there, especially south of Chicago.
02:31You get farther south, though, this is going to be driven by some big-time heat.
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