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• La Niña’s demise continues in the equatorial Pacific
• City basks in season’s second 80 degrees but rain and chill on the way
• Does large hail always come before a tornado?
• Back-to-back 80-degree days come with storms
• Farmers make progress planting but still behind; temp plunge and rains ahead
• Midweek storms to mark start of a prolonged cool spell
• Sound travel at night vs. day
• Breathtaking and grim reminder of the horror of the Greensburg, Kansas twister a year ago on May 4, 2007; fire hydrant literally put out the ground by the tornado
• Spectacular double rainbow shots in the wake of this past Friday night’s (May 2) thunderstorms
• Easterly winds to cool off Chicago in afternoon