Huge Storm System Sweeping Across Midwest

By Margaret Lyons in News on Apr 10, 2008 5:26PM

It's raining, it's pouring, we forget how the rest of that song goes, la la, bring an umbrella the rest of this week. We're looking at days and days of stormy weather, which puts our area under a flash-flood warning and a regular flood warning. Hazardous conditions, ahoy!

The Chicago area isn't braving the storm alone, though. The storm system is 1,800 miles wide (yes, that's big), and other areas are getting it way worse than we are. According to the Storm Prediction Center, parts of Arkansas, Missouri and southern Illinois are looking at "long-lived rotating thunderstorms" in the next day or so, and parts of Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee and southern Illinois are also facing tornado warnings "in addition to damaging winds and large hail." (Another kid weather joke: What's a king's favorite form of precipitation? Hail! Ahaha.) [Trib, NWS]