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It’s day three of Missouri’s winter weather preparedness week and the topic of the day is snow safety. Although Wednesday afternoon saw highs ty the record high of 81 degrees set back in 2005, winter is still inevitable for Mid-Missouri. Historically, Mid-Missouri has seen its first snow possible in the second half of October. Snow

Day two of Missouri’s Winter Weather Preparedness week is in swing with ice being the topic of focus. Each year, a majority of Mid-Missouri sees the possibility of freezing rain or sleet. But what causes these two types of winter precipitations to form, and how much ice does it take to become dangerous for traveling?

It’s day one of Winter Weather Preparedness Week for Missouri. The topic to start out the week is winter weather terminology. Knowing the difference between a winter storm watch, advisory, and warning is very important for the community to understand. Each terms have different time periods and meanings which can lead to some confusion putting

Earlier Wednesday morning lakes and rivers across much of Mid-Missouri produced steam fog. This was seen on various weather cameras, but this was not the ordinary steam fog people see throughout much of the year. This was freezing fog. Typically, steam fog forms whenever a cold air mass moves over a warmer body of water.

A large amount of people understand that rainfall is typically tied to fronts and low pressure systems in some way. Where exactly does these low pressure systems come from and how do we get the moisture to drive the precipitation in Mid-Missouri? The majority of the low pressure systems that drives precipitation that makes its

In a matter of 24 hours, a tropical storm grew to become a Category 5 hurricane. This would add extreme damage to Acapulco Mexico as damaging winds, storm surge, and flooding would devastate the area. Tuesday morning the 24th saw an approaching tropical storm rapidly approaching form the Eastern Pacific. Just before 1 PM Tuesday

A large 158 car accident occurred just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday morning, resulting in 27 injured and seven dead. The reasoning behind this crash comes from the presence of super fog. Super fog occurs as smoke participants combine with water vapor found in fog. As these two mix, light is scattered at

Each week for the past month, drought conditions have continued to worsen with extreme drought encompassing more of Mid-Missouri. Typically by October 23rd Columbia Missouri sees a total of 35.86″ of rainfall. This year, the current total is 6.7″ less at 29.16″. By the end of the month, the month of October in Mid-Missouri typically

Getting deeper into fall, many people have started to notice increasing fog during their early morning commutes reducing visibility. What many people do not know is that there are actually six different types of fog that form in different ways. The four main types of fog seen here in Mid-Missouri include advection fog, radiation fog,

Drought continues to cause more widespread impacts across much of the midwestern and southern parts of the United States. This time, the impact is record breaking low river levels in more northern portions of the Mississippi river than seen the last several weeks. In Memphis Tennessee, water levels measured -11.85 ft. These substantially low river