Morning Express with Robin Meade

Look at this picture of lightning striking the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago taken by Getty Images photographer Scott Olson last night.

The weather in the windy city was so rough it knocked out power to at least 32-thousand people and more than 500 flights were canceled.

Tropical Storm Andrea is off the west Florida coast and will make landfall as a weak tropical storm in the Big Bend of FL this evening or late afternoon.

Andrea is pretty typical as far as early season storms go.  It formed on the spot they always do -- in the Gulf of Mexico where the water is warmest. 

The San Antonio, Texas, area got nine inches of rain in just seven hours over the weekend.

Firefighters tried to get a woman out of a car, but the car was washed away by floodwaters. Authorities say the woman is feared dead. Authorities also say an 18-year-old drowned as he tried to cross a swollen creek.

I sure hope you didn’t want to sleep-in this morning in Louisiana, Mississippi or Tennessee -- because man, it is loud!

A strong line of booming thunderstorms is riding along the leading edge of a low-level jet stream this morning around the Gulf Coast.

It was 80 degrees on Monday, but there will be half a foot or more of snow Wednesday: Denver in spring is shaping up to have more wild twists than a soap opera!

A powerful cold front is driving eastward Wednesday, switching heavy rain over to snow from Colorado and Wyoming to Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. There are winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for most of the region. The bull's eye of snow looks to be north and west of Denver where the east-facing slopes could get 10 to 20 inches. Another bull's eye will be around Minneapolis, where locals could see 5 to 10 inches of snow.