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March 2008
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Matt Chambers: February 2008 ArchivesPredicting the future is no easy task but, let's face it, that's basically the duty of a meteorologist. When we create our forecasts, we do so with the understanding that a small change in the short-term weather could result in larger misses down the road in our extended forecast. We saw evidence of that over the weekend. If you were watching our forecasts late last week to get a sense for your weekend weather, you probably noticed t... I intended to blog this morning about tonight's total lunar eclipse, but hard-working Kristen Cornett beat me to the punch. Her posting from Tuesday does a great job of breaking down the astronomical event, so check out her entry just below this one. I do have one addition to make. Kristen's blog entry mentions tonight's events at the McDonnell Planetarium in Forest Park, but we've been made aware of another eclipse-related event. A... February 5th of 2008 will be remembered as a dark day in weather history across middle-America and the South. The death toll from an outbreak of strong tornadoes is already in the mid 50s, and may continue to rise in the coming days. This is a map from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) showing reports of severe weather across the country from Tuesday, February 5. |
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