re: Severe Weather 4/4-4/5 - severe storms ongoing from Arkansas to Michigan.

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Afraid it’s gonna be a long night

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Me too.

And all of yall in that southern extent of the risk, dont sleep on this if it hasnt popped off by dusk. This looks like a straight up nighttime event for AR and MO.

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Severe Weather 4/4-4/5 - Moderate Risk today for parts of IL, IA, MO and AR.

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This isn't good at all. The following is from Dennis Romero, on an NBC News report late yesterday:

Experts say the continental United States and the South in particular have the weather misfortune of being located where cold fronts from Canada and Pacific storms move south and east and clash with tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico, creating an annual cauldron of stormy weather.

But climate change could be making the extremes worse, resulting in colder cold fronts, stronger tornadoes, and bigger hailstones in spring as well as longer, hotter streaks in summer, they have said.

In mid-March, the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration published its spring outlook, which called for moderate to major flooding from Minneapolis to St. Louis even as drought continued in the northern and central Plains.

"Climate change is driving both wet and dry extremes," NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in the outlook.

Weather, everywhere, is just getting more extreme, more unpredictable, more dangerous, and sadly, more deadly.