Quiet is the word late tonight. Radar paints a few light showers but not reaching the ground.
A long curved line of showers existed all the way from North Minnesota down across Wisconsin, Chicago, Indianapolis, to Memphis and Shreveport. A cluster of lightning Extreme North Louisiana and NE tip of Texas, otherwise little or none.
The SPC (Storm Prediction Center) still shows a slight risk of severe weather Wednesday all the way from Central and East Texas eastward across most of Louisiana and Mississippi into West Alabama. That could change in later updates.
NOTES FROM ELSEWHERE
* 93 was the national high today at Laredo. Cold spot (in the Lower 48) was 2 above at Saranac Lake in Upstate New York.
* Snow depths from the South Dakota blizzard
…..18 inches at Whitewood
…..25 inches at Spearfish
…..30 inches at Deadwood
Huge drifts and whiteout conditions in the worst of the storm. Around midnight last night, the wind gust at Rapid City Airport reached 84 knots which is 97 mph. Then the wind instruments seemed to fail for several hours. Again at mid day today, gusts were over 80.
