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Chasing the thrill of the hunt for storms

Chasing the thrill of the hunt for storms

When it comes to tracking extreme weather, it can often be more about the chase than the storm.

Tom Skilling is tracking twisters

Photos: Storm chasing with Tom Skilling during Weather Week

WGN's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling is out chasing storms in tornado alley. To learn more about this project, go to the Skilling Storm Chase

Tornado 'was chasing us'

Tornado 'was chasing us'

Driving down State Highway 11 outside Medford, Okla., on Monday, WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling saw a dark and dangerous sky overhead.

May's iffy weather makes it the month of maybe

May's iffy weather makes it the month of maybe

Scott Franzen does not trust the month of May — which also might be called the month of maybe.

Hail pounds Skilling's team

Hail pounds Skilling's team

Speeding toward a thunderstorm in Kansas on Wednesday, WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling noticed a greenish pall fall over the pastoral landscape.

Technology boosts weather forecasters' accuracy

Technology boosts forecasters' accuracy

In a small brick building on the edge of a cornfield in Romeoville, three scientists sit before a bank of glowing computer monitors and attempt to answer a common query: What will the weather be like this week?