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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5500164/tropical-storm-erin-hurricane
Most of the models I’ve seen (that is, that Ryan Hall has talked about 
) have this taking a hard right and heading out to sea, but there are a couple that have it coming ashore on the East Coast. Absolutely worth watching.
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i’m seeing what you’re seeing (or what Ryan Hall/ Mike Norcross are seeing) and expect that northward trend before it gets the Bahamas.
and, this time of year, most especially, i am watching every little disturbance forming over the Cabo Verdes! those are our troublemakers, historically.
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We don’t typically have much issue with hurricanes up here. (Last big one was Fran in '96) but every once in a while one comes up from the south and gets stuck in the valley. My wife and our neighbor are both thinking this might be the year, but time will tell.
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Told you the thunderstorm would help!
Chicago has just had a once-in-1,000-years and a once-in-500-years storm, in about a 2-week span. Only things to break our summer-long heat wave.
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Barring a last minute shift (which absolutely could still happen) it looks like Erin is going to give us a miss. Now watching for the next one!
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Yesterday evening when the storm finally broke, we saw a rainbow. Didn’t get a photo, but this one is much better than what we would have gotten anyway:
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Forecast for the weekend and next week:
This morning’s thundershowers might be the last rain for a while.
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Wow, your NWS warnings are so fancy-looking! Here’s what ours looks like:
I’m not sure about the double-dollar-sign at the bottom…it’s moderate-priced? (Actually, sometimes it’s someone’s initials, and sometimes a last name, so my guess would be that the dollar signs stand for an anonymous staff-person. Or just signifies that that’s the end of the message, so you know that nothing got cut off.)
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I pulled this from their FB post. The ones from the NWS website look like yours.
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That would explain it.
I thought ours just looked frumpy because, like, we’re the Midwest 
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Chicago with more storms last night. Some of the loudest and longest thunder I’d ever heard to start the evening, then a half-inch of rain in an hour, a break, another half inch in an hour, then 1.5 inches in a massive overnight slam.
Storms a touch stronger than they were when I was a lad.
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