Wild January Weather Brings Deadly Tornadoes

The wild weather continues -- with an outbreak of tornadoes from southeast Wisconsin to northwest Arkansas on Monday.

It was only the second time a tornado has even been documented in the state of Illinois during the month of January.

Hardest hit was the state of Missouri where several injuries and a few fatalities were reported in the southwest part of the state near Springfield. (Webster and Greene Counties)

In the western Great Lakes states, fog is the big story. All this warm air moving over fairly deep snowpack is making for widespread dense fog from Duluth to Des Moines and Milwaukee to Madison.

Our friends in the northeast are almost ready to head to the beach -- literally! Highs are well into the 60s across southern New England. This time of the year they should be in the 30s to near 40 degrees at best.

As I blog the Storms Prediction Center has just issued a tornado watch for most of Arkansas as another round of severe weather gets underway. There are some warnings out just to the northwest of Little Rock where my family resides so I am going to get them called and make sure they are keeping an eye to the sky.

Unfortunately the weather bug that bit me didn't bite them -- except for my grandma. She and I spent hours each day watching the weather channel when I was a kid.

Now that she is retired sometimes she sleeps in -- so I want to just make sure they are abreast of the situation today given what we saw happen on Monday.