coming soon: wintry End Times cocktail

... Winter Storm Warning remains in effect from 3 PM this afternoon to 12 PM CST Friday... expected to begin as snow late Thursday afternoon... mixed with sleet roughly along and south of Interstate 88 and the Eisenhower expressway... snow will change to sleet and freezing rain with significant icing... snow or ice accumulations by mid morning Friday are expected to be near a foot along the Wisconsin state line... to 6 to 9 inches from the north side of Chicago westward through DeKalb and Lee counties... to 4 to 6 inches from the south side of Chicago westward into northern LaSalle County... and 3 to 5 inches of mixed snow and ice along Interstate 80... significant amounts of snow... sleet... ice... strong winds... thundersleet... ice locusts... cocktail of precipitation... cats and dogs living together... thundersnow... Joey Gathright... keep an extra flashlight... food... and water in your vehicle in case of an emergency... career .632 OPS... run in circles... scream and shout... snow and sleet accumulation of 7 to 10 inches. ice accumulation of up to one quarter of an inch... pestilence from the north... south... east... west... chance of precipitation 100 percent... total snow accumulation 8 to 12 inches... then more snow and s#i+...

formidable moisture (cont'd)

News item: A major storm lifts into the Midwest Sunday with a cocktail of precipitation. The moisture available to it will be formidable. It could be one of the wettest weather systems to traverse the nation's Heartland this winter. The Chicago area may be subject to the system's full range of precipitation (frogs? ed.). Early forecast trends suggest the metro area could sit astride the storm's so-called "rain/snow line".

Run!

It's coming!

sKILLy nails annudder one

The Chicago area emerged from its first wintry cocktail of snow and sleet Sunday after a weekend storm that began with snow, followed by sleet and freezing rain, before changing finally to rain only, in the precise quantities and at the exact hours as forecast by Tom "sKILLy" Skilling, WGN and Chicago Tribune meteorologist and soothsayer.

"Everything was revealed exactly as I prophesied," sKILLy said. "In my line of work, you put up with your share of doubters, haters, whiners, and naysayers, but when you're on top of your game, none of that affects you," he said.

"Smiff can bite me," he added.

make mine a gin martini, extra dry

I'm talking a veritable dust bowl of a martini. And throw a couple onions in deres.

WINTER STORM WARNING: Icy cocktail sweeping through area
As Chicago's winter overnight parking ban took effect, the area braced for a wintry mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow.