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Tornadoes โ€˜n shit ๐Ÿปโฌ‡๏ธ

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Ethan Mok
4 months
The last month or so has been absolutely UNREAL
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4 months
The Aurora was watching me watch it tonight
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2 months
Menacing structure on the tornado warned segment moving through Dekalb, IL #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
4 months
Giant wedge tornado yesterday near Manilla, IA after the Harlan tornado (also a wedge) occluded. This was wedge #3 from this supercell. Timestamp 6:35pm #iawx @NWSDesMoines
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1 year
CJ rolls up lights flashing Tries passing Sees me filming Says โ€œoh shitโ€ Slams on breaks going 90+, turns off lights and gets back behind. Canโ€™t make this shit up #wxtwitter
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6 months
The underside of a QLCS-like circulation from tonight West of Sugar Grove shortly before producing a tornado @NWSChicago #ilwx
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Tornado illuminated by power flashes captured in sugar grove 7:05-7:10 pm @NWSChicago #ilwx
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2 months
Tonightโ€™s derecho is the 5th bow echo to shoot through northern IL in the past 48 hours, and is by far the strongest. Potentially historic QLCS tornado event has played out in Chicagoland tonight #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Just caught a bright meteor above the Aurora in NW IL! @Ridge_Riders_
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Blizzard conditions out in Dekalb County near Waterman, IL. #ilwx @NWSChicago
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Ethan Mok
2 years
We got pancakes north of Killeen TX! #txwx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Hope you didnโ€™t think it was over. To no oneโ€™s surprise heโ€™s trying to act like a tough guy in my DMs. Guess he doesnโ€™t like being called out on his BS.
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Ethan Mok
1 year
CJ rolls up lights flashing Tries passing Sees me filming Says โ€œoh shitโ€ Slams on breaks going 90+, turns off lights and gets back behind. Canโ€™t make this shit up #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Large tornado on the ground north of Morton TX #txwx #wxtwitter @Ridge_Riders_
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Ethan Mok
2 months
Managed to snag some textbook โ€œspider lightningโ€ on the backside of tonightโ€™s monstrous storm #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
26 days
Help last night I accidentally created a @Jeep ad
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Are you kidding meโ€ฆ. #ilwx @Ridge_Riders_
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Ethan Mok
6 months
Clearer picture of a tornado near Hinckley, IL last night around 6:52pm looking from the south along the RFD. @NWSChicago #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Significant damage to homes in Sherman, IL. Pulled an elderly lady out of the destroyed home in the first picture. Possible injuries. #ilwx @NWSLincolnIL
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Ethan Mok
11 days
Absolute nuke of a storm just popped up in McHenry county. As seen from NIU #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
This is insane for an iPhone pic ๐Ÿคฏ Tuesday in Illinois
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Could easily see 2-3 significant setups taking shape in the Midwest from the July 4th and beyond timeframe with this upcoming pattern change. Absolutely classic summertime pattern that has been mostly absent the past few years. The Midwest is waking up soon
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Ethan Mok
1 year
One year ago today, an explosive supercell formed along a stationary WF/lake breeze draped through Chicagoland. The sup reached echo tops over 66 kft which is very rare for the Midwest. This supercell spared Chicago from a tornado disaster, only producing 2 EF-Os. #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Some next level stupidity coming from this Pfizer plant tornado impact. 10k likes and climbing too. Both hilarious and sad to see
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No deaths.โœ… No injuries. โœ… No fire damage. โœ…๏ธ No damage to surrounding area. โœ… The roof is still attached. โœ… 80% Internal Damage. โœ… Cars are still parked.โœ… Debri in front but not behind building. โœ… And people will allow CIA/MSM to tell them a tornado did this? ๐Ÿคญ
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Hungry for another tornado
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Fantastic nadocast output today. Absolutely nailed it with the 10% areas
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1 year
18Z Day Tornado Forecast (New New 2022 Models)
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Ethan Mok
3 years
When Mother Nature gives you iceโ€ฆ you drop it into your drink. #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
1 year
People who think we were camping in the left lane: We were in that lane to pass people. The truck we just passed is visible in the video, and the person we were about to pass is also visible in the video. We were in the passing laneโ€ฆ passing people.
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Ethan Mok
1 year
It wouldnโ€™t be a storm chase without spotting CJ at one point or another. Little asshole was speeding through town just prior to the tornado. He eventually got behind us and began tailgating hard until he watched us pull out our cameras at which point he slowed up and split off
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Brutal conditions under the snow squall in St. Charles IL #ilwx @Ridge_Riders_
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Ethan Mok
2 years
What a freaking day!!! Met @MikeOlbinski during initiation, saw the vacuum effect, saw a wedge, then some amazing structure! Couldnโ€™t ask for a more amazing first chase in Texas. DSLR pics coming tomorrow ๐Ÿ‘€ #txwx #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
I โค๏ธ convection
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Ethan Mok
4 months
Awesome sunset this evening south of DeKalb. Today was full of treats in the sky! #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
3 months
Over a foot of standing water at the intersection of Rt. 14 and Devonshire Ln in Crystal Lake. Lots of people driving through it. Even a motorcycle #ilwx @NWSChicago
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Ethan Mok
1 year
With yesterdays tornado event in Chicago, Illinois is sitting at *at least* 108 tornado reports for 2023 so far. Once surveys are complete, the confirmed tornado count should be over 90. It has been a very active year for IL, with tornadoes confirmed in each month thus far. #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
4 months
Fantastic morning shelf cloud over Dekalb, IL #ilwx @NWSChicago
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Beautiful sunrise sun pillar and sun dogs this morning in Northern Illinois! #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Some of the most incredible tornado footage youโ€™ve (probably) never seen. Amazing photogenic, violent stovepipe tornado with horizontal vortices out of Albion, IL on June 3rd, 1990. YouTube video link in the replies:
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Ethan Mok
6 months
Hinckely tornado captured from afar around 6:53 pm NW of Plano on Chicago rd. @NWSChicago #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Heavy damage to a home and its property West of Greensboro Alabama. #alwx
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Ethan Mok
2 years
There arenโ€™t many things better than a good storm at sunset
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Ethan Mok
7 months
Uncondensed brief tornado East of Henry, IL moments ago @NWSLincolnIL #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
4 months
Significant tornado NE of Lincoln earlier. 2 more tors since #newx
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Welcome to August. One of the best months of the year in the Midwest to capture Sonic Boom tornadoes, supercells, amazing sunsets, and incredible lightning. Looking forward to everything this month brings! #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Uh oh
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Ethan Mok
3 months
Spiraling mesovortex near Sugar Grove, IL on 2/27
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Severe damage to a Farmstead just a mile west of Gays IL. Semi on its side in the field, silos destroyed. Tornado missed Gays Illinois by less than a mile. #ilwx #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Iโ€™m ready to see convection! Who else is ready to see scenes like this again?
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Itโ€™s time to talk about Thursday in Dixie alley and the Ohio Valley. A dryline will be pushing through Dixie Thursday afternoon. The cold front will sag behind initially, then catch up at some point. To the north, a warm front will sit over S IL and S IN. 1/5
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Awesome boundary action in Florida. Two OFBz moving towards each other from the north and the south cause storms to erupt upon collision
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Massive clearing across SW IL with cloud cover breaking up over northern IL as well. On top of that, storm development and coverage in Western MO is less robust than modeled. These trends to me suggest a very dangerous afternoon and evening across Central and northern IL.
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Incredible dust eating supercell north of Morton Texas right now! #txwx @Ridge_Riders_
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2 years
Current view of the supercell in Northern IL @Ridge_Riders_ #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
3 years
No better way to start spring than with a tornado siren test!
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Ethan Mok
4 months
Tornadogenesis NE of Omaha near Waverly, NE on Friday. Timestamp 2:49 pm. Watch multiple horizontal vortices condense as the tornado intensifies. This tornado appeared violent once it got fully established #Newx
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Ethan Mok
4 years
My spring outlook is done! How does it look? In all seriousness, stop doing spring outlooks. Itโ€™s dumb, and all they do are highlight the patterns we see every spring. #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
1 year
@wayfastwxnerd We were in the passing lane passing people at a safe speed. Heโ€™s passing us on the right because he wanted to go an unsafe speed. We had just passed the truck in the background and he didnโ€™t give us an opportunity to move over before deciding to overtake on the right.
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Ungodly Anvil crawler from the windshield of my carโ€ฆ #ilwx #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
This is crazy
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Elon Musk
2 years
๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’ซโ™ฅ๏ธ Yesss!!! โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿš€
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Ethan Mok
3 years
The Holiday inn I stayed at for 2 nights on my 3-25-21 chase likely just sustained a direct hit from the Tupelo TOR. Heartbreaking to see such a beautiful area get hit directly.
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Ethan Mok
1 year
Interesting thing to note here: Each of the top 3 years on this list featured a prolific spring Midwest tornado outbreak. 1965 with the Palm Sunday outbreak, 1967 with 4/21, and 2023 with March 31st. Odd coincidence or climatological connection? Something to look into more!
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This is the 1st time there hasn't been an 80 Degree High at Denver, for the period from June 1st to June 17th, since records began in 1872. #cowx
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Ethan Mok
2 months
Tomorrow has the hallmarks of a significant derecho day over NIL. Extreme instability will develop along a baroclinic zone reinforced by convection tonight, with a ML shortwave diving into the cornbelt. Steep MLLRs + inverted V at the surface will aid in sig wind production
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Ethan Mok
1 year
DSLR pics of the twin tornadoes near Elgin yesterday at 6:23 pm. Peep the rainbow on the left as well! @NWSChicago #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Hereโ€™s a clip of the weird funnel scud bomb thing we saw yesterday at the end of the chase. Broad rotation throughout the feature, even some tube like features towards the bottom at times. I have a hard time calling this a funnel, but also canโ€™t really call it purely scud either
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Ethan Mok
4 years
Hereโ€™s a graphic I made that explains the new NWS Severe thunderstorm warnings. Glad this system is rolling out. The 8/10 derecho definitely highlighted the need for such a revision #ilwx #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
So it begins. Winter storm watches are being posted throughout Illinois right now. Quite the wording in this one #ilwx
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Hot take: Drillbit tornadoes (Like Ashby MN) are cooler than Wedges (except Rochelle at its wedge stage) #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
2 years
There arenโ€™t many things more exhilarating than a close range lightning strike โšก๏ธ
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2 years
The lightning yesterday was spectacular ๐Ÿ‘Œ #iawx
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1 year
Which do you prefer? Extreme cold or extreme heat? Poll below ๐Ÿ‘‡
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1 year
Boy am I glad I stayed up for the 06z runโ€ฆ
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2 years
A collection of Midwestern supercells that got close to producing a tornado but never did:
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Everything is fine ๐Ÿ‘
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3 years
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3 years
This is what The Weather Channel has come to. Locking videos explaining the magnitude of Thursdayโ€™s potential outbreak to Premium members of their app. This is a new level of pathetic. TWC nowadays is a far cry from even just 5-4 years ago. Sad really #wxtwitter
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2 years
Eyeballing a potential chase op on Monday, the 16th. There is disagreement between the Euro and GFS, but the Euro has been very consistent on barely sufficient moisture return into West IL. Hodographs look favorable for supercell potential as well. Lots to watch with this one
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Impeccable light show from powerful thunderstorms over Chicago #ilwx
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1 year
Driving past the dropped down dominator in a little sedan with a big tornado not even 100 feet away is mind boggling. What were they thinking?
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Jordan Hall
1 year
Sneak Peek at the Wedge intercept with the drone! NOTE: We are in Dominator 3 in this shot getting a direct intercept!! UNBELIEVABLE Never Stop Chasing @SevereStudios @ReedTimmerAccu @Sierra_Lindsey3 @BrianAllenWX #newx #wxtwitter
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6 months
Very brief, weak, uncondensed tornado near Delavan, WI about 20 mins ago #wiwx @NWSMilwaukee
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Central IL snow lovers rejoice! Ground Hog Day system continues to look promising. Not a forecast, and obviously many things will change but itโ€™s a start. Iโ€™m keeping an eye on that Dixie severe threat too ๐Ÿ‘€
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2 years
Big beefy meso with a likely rainwrapped tornado north of Humboldt IA on Tuesday #iawx
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2 years
Still canโ€™t tell if yesterday was a dream or not. No๐ŸŒชโ€™s, but Mother Nature had other plans. Nighttime supercells morphed into amazing motherships as they crossed the border into NIL with one of the best โšก๏ธ shows Iโ€™ve ever seen. Incredible birthday with some awesome people! #ilwx
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1 year
1.5k likes on this is actually insane. People are clearly fed up with CJ. The memes from this have been hilarious
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Ethan Mok
1 year
CJ rolls up lights flashing Tries passing Sees me filming Says โ€œoh shitโ€ Slams on breaks going 90+, turns off lights and gets back behind. Canโ€™t make this shit up #wxtwitter
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2 years
We got pretty close to a funnel that really wanted to eat some corn earlier. ~4:45pm NE of Chatsworth IL. Lots of close calls today but no tornadoes. #ilwx @Ridge_Riders_
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Ethan Mok
5 months
Large tornado intercepted near Salem Iowa about 30 minutes ago @NWSQuadCities #iawx
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Ethan Mok
1 year
The Peoria area has dodged two bullets in rapid succession this spring. Once on March 31st where a supercell failed to produce a tornado, and again on April 4th where the supercell became elevated just before heading into the city limits. Incredible luck #ilwx
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4 years
Wow great forecasting TWC! Incredible job #wxtwitter
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Ethan Mok
3 years
Breathe noodle tornado north of Hedrick IA a minute ago @Ridge_Riders_ #iawx
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Ethan Mok
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The derecho on 7/15 looked like an alien mothership coming in. Pretty good looking for derecho standards #ilwx
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3 years
Possible tornado north of Franklin at 3:20 pm @NWSLincolnIL
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2 years
Beastly structure with a tornado lurking in the dust. 7:18pm yesterday north of Morton TX #txwx
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3 years
Statements from the Illinois Weather community on Facebook regarding CJโ€™s asinine behavior: #wxtwitter
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2 years
Mother Nature plays with fireworks of her own on July 4th over Northern IL. #ilwx
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2 years
How it started vs. how itโ€™s going. Nothing short of incredible
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27 days
Aurora is out in northern IL! #ilwx
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3 years
From Moderate 15% # to Blizzard warning in 3 days #txwx
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2 years
Definitely going to be reading up on this tonight. What a cool event
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2 years
Good. God.
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Ethan Mok
2 years
Duly noted: next time, call off work
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3 years
Clash of the titans: GFS VS. Euro Who you rooting for?
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