Well if Iwere still living in Illinois I'd likely be storm chasing today- ridiculous considering there are Tornado warnings in place in the last week if Dec....as a kid we only watched out for snow storms and hoped for a large dump of snow to play in. That for me shows the change in weather more than statistics. They've had some strange weather this last couple weeks from California flash Floods (who were in fire Tornadoes this time last year) to weather bombs in the mid West .....Eastern board states will be watching the weather dropping fun off the lakes....
Then this weather could gain more strength in the Atlantic abd the northerly winds .....cold weather here we come