Vittorio's Voyages

Wanted to show a cool visible satellite image (click to enlarge) of the vast snow cover from the 12/8-12/9 mid-latitude cyclone. Neat featur...

Many folks in the Great Lakes / Northeast region have deemed this year as the "one without a summer." Take a look at the graph bel...

Quick look at a composite chart I've made for tomorrow. Any severe weather will be highly dependent on the amount of instability we reci...

Couple shots of Henry's fireworks from the 4th... Joe & Kade pose at the carnival

Time lapse of Metra's UP-W line from Ogilvie transportation center to about Elmhurst.

Time lapse of about half of today's driving commute. I wish it went by that fast!

Time lapse from the 23rd floor of the Boeing building looking down to the meet-up of Lake Michigan water and the Chicago River. Notice the c...

Sunday featured an interesting set-up for tornadic supercells in central IA along a northward advancing warm front. After a late start, Hamp...

After a round of severe weather over much of Illinois, DeKalb was treated with a beautiful sunset on the back side of an eastward advancing ...

On Sunday, NIU alum Dustin Oltman and I ventured out to the Middle Mississippi Valley to try to catch some tornadic supercells since th...

Monday & Tuesday provided "down" days for storm chasing in the great plains. Being so close to CO already, I decided to stay w...

Thursday featured a down day with hope on Friday for a severe weather episode in south central KS before a cold front scours the Gulf of Mex...

Wednesday featured an interesting set-up for severe storms in west central OK as a cold front was rapidly plunging southeast into a very uns...

Yesterday featured a set-up of wasted ingredients with a stout cap in place over much of the great plains. Not much time to tell a long stor...

Sunday's beautiful weather allowed for one of my favorite springtime hobbies, morel mushroom hunting! Unfortunately, we didn't find...

On Tuesday morning, showers and thunderstorms will be ongoing north of a stalled warm front near the Interstate 72 corridor in association w...

Click to Animate This mornings visible satellite showed a unique pattern of snowfall across the Upper Mississippi Valley. After some review ...

Gusty winds overnight caused more tree limbs to break around the area. As an intense arctic high builds over southern Saskatchewan this afte...

Below are some pictures I was able to capture early this morning after an ice storm glazed our house with 3/8" of ice. About an inch of...

Storm total of 4"of wet slushy snow as of 9 PM in west DeKalb. Level II radar loop of the entire storm (large file) Animated GIF of the...