After the catastrophic storms that moved through the Midwest Friday, a forecast that calls for high winds and possibly strong storms for Wednesday night gets our attention.
While there were storms that moved through northeast Missouri and western Illinois Friday night and early Saturday morning, our storms were nothing in comparison with the perhaps history-making swath of destruction that made its way through five states.
We've already had a relatively mild late Fall as far as temps and precipitation goes. If a new forecast is correct, Missouri and Illinois are in for a relative heat wave in the middle of December.
A little rain can be a good thing, but the type of rainfall that is possible in the tri-states this weekend may very well be record-setting based on the current forecast.
A year ago, many people did not know what a derecho was. But, after what happened to much of Iowa on that day, the idea of an inland hurricane was very real.