Not your grandfather's winter, via weather.com:

A springlike storm complex brought severe thunderstorms and heavy, flooding rains from the western Great Lakes to the southern Plains on Saturday...

A handful of tornadoes were reported along the Missouri-Illinois border north of St. Louis, resulting in some structural damage.

...Combined with the very warm air ahead of a cold front, the heavy rain caused rapid melting of the deep snow pack across the Midwest.

Oh, and after all this it's supposed to snow tomorrow in the upper Midwest. Just like with the stock market, it's not the overall trend that gets you so much as the volatility.

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