On April 18th, I ventured out the door at 4:00am and began to head out of Peoria, IL east along I-74 to stay in front of a developing squall line. I had to dodge some serious flooding along the way that was ongoing across the local-area due to the 5"+ inches of rain that had occurred in a 24hr. period...CONTINUE READING
On April 17th, I began my first storm chase of 2013 as soon as I got off work around 3:00pm. Once off work I headed south from Peoria, IL on I-55 to get to my target-area outside Champaign, IL. The models the previous night were showing the warm front making it as far north as Peoria, IL, but early on in the day I realized that they were way off on its progress north...CONTINUE READING
Posted: Travis Carlson--04/17/13
Last weekend, a few spring thunderstorms passed to the north of Peoria, IL during the late evening hours. Unfortunately, the storms were moving fairly quick off to the northeast and I had limited time to photograph them as I was stuck at work during the evening...CONTINUE READING
Posted: Travis Carlson--04/06/13
Last week, we ended up with a fairly nice snowfall as a winter storm took aim on west-central Illinois and the Midwest. It was our biggest snowfall thus far across the area resulting in a healthy swath of accumulating snow seen here. Locally, we ended up around 6" inches of heavy wet snow at my apartment just northwest of Peoria, IL seen here with even higher totals off to the northwest...CONTINUE READING
Posted: Travis Carlson--02/27/13
02/22/13--Snow, Finally!
Last week, Mother Nature finally cooperated and decided it was our time for some snow in Peoria, IL. We've seen a lot of precipitation this winter, but rarely in the frozen variety across west-central Illinois. It has definitely disappointed snow-lovers and photographers to say the least. This past week however, we finally saw our first "decent" snowfall across this area resulting in a couple inches of snow...CONTINUE READING
