Still mostly quiet for now (4/1/23)

The end of March brought severe weather through most of the eastern half of the United States. Through the FOX 23 coverage area, a few tornado-warned storms moved through with no confirmation of any sightings, mostly wind-driven damage.

Once the storms rolled through, wind was still an issue overnight with some of the reports across the area (as seen below) detailing wind gusts upwards of 60 mph. All storm reports on this map are just winds reported that were not associated with any thunderstorm activity from earlier in the night.

After all that, our weekend has been quiet and calm. It’ll end mostly quiet and calm for a good majority of us as well. Temperatures will start off chilly in the middle 30s Sunday morning, before warming into the middle and upper 60s with plenty more sunshine.

By Sunday night, the northern portion of our area, mostly northern parts of southern Illinois could see a period of moderate rainfall late. Most of us stay dry with some increasing cloud cover.

Tuesday is what we are especially keeping an eye on this weekend and early next week. Chatter has detailed signals for more strong to severe storms possible throughout Tuesday. It’ll be yet another day to stay weather aware.

Meteorologist Jessica Blum

FOX 23 Storm Alert Team