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March 2008
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Steve Templeton: September 2007 ArchivesMan those skies are blue today! I'm checking out the beautiful day through one of our skycams from the confines of my windowless storm center. And what's the deal with a weather guy not having windows in his office? Bryce, our web guy, has this great view of the Arch from his office and I've got a crummy skycam. Oh well, it is what it is. Anyway, the clear skies today are caused in large part from a big area of high pressure (those ... Here's an update for you on the severe weather threat. Below is today and tonight's severe weather risk. This is a graphic made by the Storm Prediction Center, the same people who issue watches (warnings are issued by our local national weather service office). Last night the slight risk area, outlined in green, included the Metro East and much of our viewing area in Illinois. Now the threat has been pushed farther to the Northeast.... Autumn started Sunday morning, but our high temperature at Lambert Sunday hit a very summer-like 93. In fact, it was one degree away from the record high of 94 set back in 1891. So, if it's officially Fall then when will the Fall-like temperatures arrive? Well, we do have a cold front that will usher in some cooler temperatures late this week. The front is expected to move through by Wednesday morning, giving us highs in the mid to ... The Autumnal Equinox will occur this Sunday at 4:51 AM marking the beginning of Fall. Equionx means "Equal night" as the day and night are about the same, about 12 hours each. An equinox occurs when the sun is directly above the equator, as you can see in the picture below. Throughout the summer the sun's most direct ray's hit the Northern Hemisphere, ranging between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 N). In fact, it's the ... Kent and I have been watching something interesting in the medium range computer models. A disturbance near Florida will head for St. Louis, or at least close enough to our area to give us a rain chance by early next week. Below is a map of the latest possible path of this disturbance. Each colored line represents a different model's forecast path of this disturbance. Right now it is not strong enough to be called a tropical depres... Hold on! Wait a second! What happened to that great Fall weather from this weekend? That's what I was thinking, especially since I love the cooler Fall days. But We will be ranging from 85-90 at least through the weekend. All in all, those aren't horrible numbers. But I was wondering how late in the season we've had a 90 or even 100 degree day. So, I did some digging in the climate files for St. Louis and here's what I found: If you've already taken a peek at my 5 day forecast you know that temperatures through the weekend are expected to be well above normal. Now take a look at the two maps I have posted below. The Climate Prediction Center's 6 to 10 and 8 to 14 day outlooks are remarkably similar. Each shows that there is a strong indication that temperatures east of the Continental Divide will, for the most part, remain well above normal into October. >> Continue reading: Warm Days Ahead Well, we said in the blog last night that we didn't think Humberto would strengthen to a hurricane...and of course just to spite me, it did. Actually, that made Humberto the fastest intensifying hurricane nearest landfall. It strengthened from a tropical depression to a hurricane in a little over half a day while only 60 miles from the Texas coast. Also, Humberto was the first hurricane to hit the US since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Kent an... August, September and October are historically the busiest months for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic. And not half way into September we now have our 8th named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Humberto formed today off the Texas coast. Humberto is not expected to become a hurricane because it will lose energy as it moves onshore over Eastern Texas and then moves into Western and Central Louisiana. Maximum sustained winds ... Steve here, and the latest forecast has some cool temperatures arriving by the weekend. A strong push of cold air should clip our area Saturday before temperatures rebound a bit. But with a low in the low 50s Saturday morning, I wondered how long it's a been since we've been that cool? In fact, the last time it was that cool was May 19th. That's almost 4 months ago! Highs should rebound into the low 70s, about 10 degrees bel... ***Update to this blog, the National Weather Service did report a brief touchdown 4 miles East Northeast of Jerseyville, IL. From the weather service report this was seen by a trained spotter. I haven't seen any other reports on this as the damage seems limited to some trees in the areas. ************* From Thursday's three tornado warnings we have only 1 spotted tornadoes at this point. So, why did we spend so much time interruptin... Just as Kent's blog below describes, it's likely most of us will see some rain Thursday and Friday. And as I check out the latest drought monitor, it's much needed. Below is a map I took from the US Drought Monitor web site, and I'll provide the link below as well. You'll see that the entire News4 viewing area is in a moderate drought (beige) and the Southern portion of our viewing area (both Missouri and Illinois) is in a severe dro... |
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