Kahn: June 2009 Archives

Thanks to Sara Mickel from Park City, Illinois for sharing this picture of flooding on the Des Plaines River near Wadsworth. Sara comments that the river level has not changed much since Sunday.

The Des Plaines River swollen by this area's recent deluges
 
With the Des Plaines River--and others in the Chicago area---so high in the wake of recent downpours, this photo from Sara Mickel is especially striking. Sara took it where the Des Plaines River passes under the pedestrian bridge at Stirling Lake near Wadsworth. Importantly, she notes the clearance between the bridge and the river hasn't changed much since Sunday and that the new wetland restoration project on Rt. 41 has retained much of the water which would otherwise have flowed into flood zones south of Waukegan! Many thanks for the fantastic photo and for a very timely update, Sara!
-Tom Skilling
 

Photo courtesy of Sara Mickel, Park City, Illinois

Thanks to Jack Conarchy for passing on these photos of flooding on this street following the torrential rains Friday night. Jack reported 3 feet of water on his street and unfortunately 6 inches in his basement.

Photos by Jack Conarchy

Matt Hendricks took this neat picture near Riverside, Michigan of the thunderstorms approaching shoreline after crossing the lake.

Photo by Matt Hendricks

Mary Beth Binek sent us this picture taken in Downers Grove with the sun shining through a hole in the clouds. Her husband remarked that it looks like an angel.

Photo by Mary Beth Binek

Thanks to Steve Rayman for passing along these amazing photos taken Monday at Emerson New  Jersey in Bergen County where a freak thunderstorm dropped tons of hail that piled up more then 4" deep. Residents of the area likened the landscape to that of a winter snowstorm. Heavy rainfall also produced flooding.

Photos by Ree

Thanks to John Franco for passing along this photo of a tree struck by lightning during some very "noisy" thunderstorms early Monday morning.

Thanks to our long-time friend, pilot Anson Mount for sending us this shot taken this afternoon as the thunderstorms were passing east of the Waukegan airport.

Photo by Anson Mount

Thanks to Melissa McGuire for passing on this shot of a funnel cloud taken Sunday afternoon from a Denver suburb. The photo was taken by her brother Matthew Dupont who reported that everyone was OK and that it was "totally cool" to have some weather action here besides snow.

Photo by Matthew Dupont

Our thanks to Jimmy Silverstein a meteorology student at Northern Illinois University for sending us these great shots of a tornado that occurred on Friday about 10 miles north of La Grange, Wyoming. Luckily he was at the top of a ridge which provided a spectacular view of the storm.

Photos by Jimmy Silverstein

Thanks to Michael Landelius and Ben Rock, storm spotters from Kane County who captured this shot of a shelf cloud near the intersection of routes 20 and 47.

Photo by Michael Landelius

This photo was taken as a cold front passed through the Mendota area in north central Illinois around 7 p.m. The temperature plunged from 75 to 67 in just two minutes.

Photo by D. Keefe

Mike Valandingham snapped this photo of a double rainbow that appeared after thunderstorms passed through the Fox River Grove area.

Photo by Mike Valandingham

Another double rainbow was photographed in the Crystal Lake area abour 6:40 p.m. last night by Missy Dabrowski

Photo by Missy Dabrowski