Rain chances continue tonight as the winds increase, leaving a half an inch to almost an inch in the bucket by the time the rain ends by Thursday morning.  Skies will be clearing on Thursday afternoon but it will be a cool, windy and raw day with highs only in the mid-50s but feeling colder with the wind.

Clear skies on Thursday night will significantly drop overnight lows into the mid-30s away from Lake Michigan, so patchy frost is possible inland, cover up those sensitive plants!

Friday and Saturday will both be cool but dry with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies.  There are small chances for showers and T'storms on Sunday and Memorial Day so keep that in mind for your holiday weekend plans, High temperatures start to warm up after the weekend.

            The massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma on Monday was another in the long history of twisters that have struck the Oklahoma City area in the past one hundred and twenty years. Since 1893 there have been around one hundred and fifty tornadoes documented in and around the Oklahoma City limits and its suburbs, an incredible figure for a major metropolitan area. Moore is a satellite city that is part of the southern side of this Oklahoma City limit area.

            The peak months for tornado formation are April, May and June, and most of the largest tornadoes in the EF4 and EF5 category occur in April and May. Most Oklahoma City tornadoes occur between 2 pm and 7 pm in the afternoon and early evening. The Oklahoma City area has been struck by more than one tornado in a single day twenty-five times, and five tornadoes hit in one day on June 8^th in 1974.