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The companies insuring against Mother Nature are finding it increasingly harder to do so in a changing climate. Bigger wildfires, stronger hurricanes, and more severe storms all put more strain on the industry protecting our property. But the future looks to hold more disasters that will cost even more money to bounce back from. The

Several rounds of severe weather and heavy rain have put the Missouri Basin to our north in a surplus, leading to downstream flooding along the Missouri River in Mid-Missouri. That upstream rain coupled with flooding from strong storms Tuesday night will cause locations along the Missouri River to reach minor to moderate flood stage over

After a cool start to the week, we have an active and hot few days shaping up as we get closer to Independence Day. Winds shift back to the south tonight into Tuesday as a warm front lifts north, sending dew points back into the lower 70s. We’ll notice the increase in humidity early on

The incessant buzz of the periodical cicada broods has died down but those bugs left something behind that may be affecting some of your plants. Cicada eggs are lurking in trees all around as the next generation prepares to hatch in a few weeks. While they don’t typically cause heavy damage, these eggs could injure

If you have noticed more shaking and turbulence on your flights in recent years it might not be all your imagination. New studies suggest that planes are encountering more turbulence even in clear skies and this could be due to shifting weather patterns. Turbulence is the irregular movement of air due to air currents and

Summertime mugginess has settled back into Mid-Missouri and will be a common part of the forecast the next few months. Most daily summer forecasts include humidity as a percentage but you may hear forecasters also mention dew points in the summertime. Dew points are a good measure of humidity across a range of temperatures and

The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially began on June 1st and the first named storm of the season has now formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico. This broad storm could bring flooding across much of southern Texas. Alberto is tracking on the rim of a heat dome across the eastern U.S., forcing it due west

We’re just a couple days away from the official start of summer, but the sizzling heat has already settled in as above average temperatures are in the forecast for the entire week. We typically see our first 90 degree day around May 31, but this year we didn’t have a 90 degree day until this

Storms yesterday produced heavy winds and triggered a tornado warning for several counties across Mid-Missouri. But the National Weather Service has determined that damage along the path of that storm was more consistent with high winds not associated with a tornado. A line of heavy storms tracked into the area from the north after sundown

ABC 17 Stormtrack is digging into how globally warming temperatures is and could continue to impact precipitation rates over the next several decades. Most of the country is expected to see precipitation extremes increase with 3.6 degrees of global warming, according to Climate Central. The indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) initiative has put together

We’re coming off a stormy spring across Mid-Missouri ahead of another expected warmer than average summer. Monthly average temperatures this past spring were anywhere from 2-5 degrees warmer than normal, and we finally busted out of the drought area-wide with near average rainfall. Severe weather reports were much more frequent than normal, with 92 reports