This weekend, the northern plains of Montana and the Dakotas faced a wild showdown with Mother Nature – think hurricane-force winds and hail the size of softballs.
It's now forecast to be one of the strongest hurricanes in history. Hurricane Lee has rapidly intensified into a monster category 5 storm and the question now is what track will it take and is the East Coast of the United States in danger.
I didn’t even know there were tornadoes in New Jersey. Well, you always hear that they are a possibility when bad weather is on the way, but I didn’t think they really ever happened here except for maybe once or twice in my life.
Yes, it's an obvious fact that storm chasing is dangerous, but it's even more so in the rural areas of Illinois. One storm chaser recently discovered a 'monster lurking in the corn' - a massive EF-2 tornado that he couldn't see initially because a field of corn was blocking his view.