You’ve probably heard the old saying, if you don’t like the weather in Missouri now, just wait five minutes. This October has been all about temperature swings with the start of the month seeing 90s, with frosty temps in the 30s last week. However, a stronger push of cold, winter-like air looks like it will
Continue ReadingFrom May to October, severe generally tends to wane across the United States. However, when you look at tornado data between 1950-2011, November sees a brief spike in tornadic activity during this time. Why is that? Well, during the spring and summer, we see a lot more sunshine, which means we have much warmer and
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On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center released their Winter 2019-2020 outlook for the United States. Two key features come to play for mid-Missouri in their report. They expect temperatures throughout the 3-month period to settle out near normal. This doesn’t imply that it will be warm necessarily, but that there
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Mid-Missourians may remember the vibrant colors changes that trees underwent last year. Our dry summer, followed by the relatively mild transition to fall help bolster a beautiful sight across the state as trees began to prepare for (what ended up being) a long winter ahead. We’re already back to that time of year when trees
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Yes. You read that right. On October 5th, the radar at the National Weather Service Office in Norman, Oklahoma detected a swarm of butterflies being pushed along by a strong fall cold front. What looked like a thin line of storms were actually thousands of Monarch butterflies being driven southward (as well as hundreds of
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Some parts of mid-Missouri woke up to a thick layer of fog this morning, while some saw clear blue skies to start the day. Why was that? Well, for starters, we need to have an understanding as to why fog forms… and it’s many differing types. In general when we forecast fog, we look at
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A potent fall weather system is upon us as we wrap up the work week in Mid-Missouri. Snow has been falling across the Rockies and central Plains, and that cool air will move into our area by Friday. Showers and thunderstorms have been ongoing across central Missouri since early Thursday morning, bringing between 1-3″ of
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After the hottest September on record, Mid-Missouri is gearing up for potentially the first frost and/or freeze of the season this weekend. The weather pattern remains quiet until Thursday, as a strong low pressure system dives south across the Rockies. This will bring an associated cold front to the area Thursday into Friday, triggering thunderstorms
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September saw twenty-nine days of at or above average temperatures with the lone below average reading on the first day of the month. This month also featured ten 90+ days which is tied for 8th most ever for the month. While daily high temperatures over-performed, it was the muggy overnight lows that rarely fell out
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