Cellphone alerts for flash floods made a big leap this week
The way old phone alerts were sent out was that if you were in the county warned, you’d get the alert to your phone. That has changed.
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The way old phone alerts were sent out was that if you were in the county warned, you’d get the alert to your phone. That has changed.
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Conditions within the Missouri Basin are similar to what played out last year, with a widespread snowpack along with above-average liquid water content.
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Earlier this week talked about signs of an early spring popping up across parts of the country. We’re getting more signs here in the midwest. A tweet by the St. Louis National Weather Service featured a radar loop showing what looked like rain, was actually a flock of migratory waterfowl, most likely snow geese. A
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Severe weather will be increasing over the next several months and our weather team figured a refresher on severe weather would be important– especially considering how we haven’t seen much activity so far this winter. Severe storms are categorized as thunderstorms which produce winds in excess of 58 mph and hail of 1″ diameter or
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An article published by the USA-National Phenology Network revealed that spring has gotten off to a very fast start across the southeast United States. Vegetation has begun showing signs of spring-leafing as far north as central Arkansas and Tennessee. They also indicated that this has been the earliest this leafing has occurred in nearly 40
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Arctic Air Blast! Bitterly cold temperatures have filtered in across Mid-Missouri thanks to a large arctic high pressure system centered to our northwest, blasting cold gusty winds through the region today. Temperatures managed to reach the single digits to low teens, but will drop to around zero tonight. A Wind Chill Advisory is in effect
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Our first arctic outbreak of 2020 has certainly been a powerful one across mid-Missouri. However, when you compare it to the past 3 winters, we’re running a bit behind. 2014, the year of the polar vortex featured nearly 10 occurrences of sub-zero temperatures from November to March, 5 in the meteorological winter season. That year
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Meteorologists typically warn of slick roads the morning following a snow event, but what we’ll see tonight is a little more rare. With today’s steady rain and snowfall, many roads and sidewalks have become a slushy mess. A very strong cold front is set to crash through the region overnight. This will not only dramatically
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Cold and snowy weather got off to a quick start in November across mid-Missouri, but things have never really gotten back to that point ever since. We almost hit 70 degrees on Christmas and had several similar warm spells in January. Temperatures have run nearly 3.5º above average since November 1st. In between it’s been
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It’s no surprise. Ever since the start of the new year, winter hasn’t been kind to mid-Missouri. It’s been cloudy, wet, snowy and everything in between. I’m sure we’re all done with the muddy shoes, muddy paws and our yards resembling more of a wet sponge, than ground and grass. When you look at the
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A meteorologist’s biggest fear when forecasting snowfall can be the effects that dry air can have on evaporating snowflakes before they reach the ground.
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Watch a Wednesday afternoon update on weather conditions from Chief Meteorologist Jessica Quick in the player below SYNOPSIS Precipitation continues to ride up a stationary boundary bringing heavy snow to the Midwest and several other precipitation types furth south and east. PRECIP BREAKDOWN/TIMINGS Precipitation is starting to slow down to our west and that should
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Here's #KansasCity erupting in celebration, as detected by our radar! 🎉🎇🎆🏈 pic.twitter.com/IlfG82gxl6— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) February 3, 2020 The National Weather Service in Kansas City posted a radar loop of a brief burst in their signal around the time the Chiefs were named Super Bowl champions. This can be a bit tough to see
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We were off to such a good start… The end of 2019 and start of 2020 was one of the warmest stretches of weather to start the winter season ever in Mid-Missouri. This was coupled with plenty of sunshine, with many of us asking if winter was going to make a return after its quick
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Big changes are on the way after a week of cool, cloudy weather.
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MORNING UPDATE: Snow has been falling throughout the morning. The more consistent of the snow has been falling south of I-70, with a fairly impressive band along the Callaway-Osage county line. Radar estimates of snowfall amouts so far this morning. Let us know what you’re seeing where you are today through the share tab! Add
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It’s fairly obvious that sunlight provides us warmth during the day. But, even in the heart of a snowstorm, with thick cloud cover and snow falling, it can have a dramatic effect on how snow accumulates.
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Winter Weather Advisories go into effect for the counties shaded in purple from 6pm this evening until 12pm. Synopsis A potent upper-level trough, which has already dropped 8-13″ of snow across the south-central plains is kicking eastward towards mid-Missouri this afternoon. Precipitation is expected to remain fairly light but steady overnight– higher accumulations are expected
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Winter weather advisories continue through 6 p.m. for our eastern counties. Light snow is expected to fall between 3 and 7 p.m. No additional accumulation is expected.
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Some of us have been upgraded from a Winter Storm Watch to a Winter Weather Advisory. A Winter Storm Watch is still in effect through late Friday night for the eastern half of Mid-Missouri as winter weather is expected to impact roads Friday morning.
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