A day that was supposed to be filled with happiness and joy as people shared their day with that special someone quickly changed shortly after 3pm when a gunman opened fire at Northern Illinois University.  The shooting took place in Cole Hall where many students pass through everyday.  For those who were on campus time seemed to stand still as something that seemed completely surreal was actually happening.  When it was all over 22 people were injured and a few minutes ago a 7th fatality was confirmed.

     Though this is a website dedicated to weather, a tragedy like this strikes very close to home.  One of our StormTeam members attends NIU full time and is a resident there.  Many of our members have family and friends that attend there also.  Thankfully everyone we know is safe and unharmed.  For those people who aren't as fortunate as we are, we here at TransitWeather have you in our hearts and prayers and offer our deepest condolences. Today we are all Huskies.

Stats are in from the NWS offices on the recent Feb 5 - 6 2008 snowfall.

Chicago NWS

Milwaukee NWS

Quad Cities NWS

 Needless to say snowfall was quite heavy at times along with the near white out conditions caused by the blowing snow didn't help traveling if anyone was out either.

After last weeks winter storm that left much of Northern Illinois and the Chicago-land coated with several inches of snow; we got more ice, sleet and snow on Sunday evening. The snow came just in time to snarl commuters that ventured out for the Superbowl. IDOT reported several highways across Illinois as dangerous levels of ice and snow cover. One of our very own members had the enjoyment of driving highway 39 up to Rockford, IL from Bloomington, IL. He reported the road conditions as extremely icey and slow moving. They pasted 20+ vehicles ditched along the highway.

If last weeks storm and Sunday's random outburst wasn't enough; we have more on the way. Possibly a lot more. Today we expect rain and fog in the area, but going throughout the day tomorrow me can expect the rain to turn over to snow.

NWS Chicago has totaled the amounts from the recent Jan 31-Feb 1 snowstorm.  A link to that information may be available at the National Weather Service websites at

NWS Chicago Snowfall Report

Snow Report

NWS Milwaukee - Sullivan

Report