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NASA’s in-depth article on the 2020 Perseid meteor shower

A heat advisory goes into effect tomorrow afternoon and lasts through Sunday evening. The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team opted to not issue a Weather Alert Day due to heat index values remaining below 105º. We typically begin having internal Weather Alert Day discussions if heat index values are expected to be at least 100

Tomorrow, a penumbral lunar eclipse will take place in the night sky. Now, this is a little bit different from a total or partial lunar eclipse that you usually might think of. When the sun shines on the earth, a shadow is cast. Because of the way shadows work, one direct shadow is formed– this

June was a fairly quiet month of weather across mid-Missouri, but a few notable events gave the month some extra kick. We started off with Cristobal, the earliest “C-Named” tropical system on record in the Atlantic. The storm carved a path from Louisana, up into Wisconsin dumping several inches of rainfall across the Mississippi. Those

After a pleasant start to the week, the return of summer-like weather is looming with heat, humidity, and storms all in the forecast for the weekend and beyond. Moisture is beginning to creep back into the region as high pressure builds to our south in the upper levels of the atmosphere. This will allow southwesterly

This week is Lightning Safety Week. It’s we head into the most active months for daily lightning across the United States which falls between late June and August. One of the things that makes lightning so dangerous is because of the misinformation and myths which surround the phenomenon. One popular myth is that if the

Saharan dust is a phenomenon that occurs yearly, but in much a 2020 fashion, the one this year had to be the worst in… 50 years? That’s according to several meteorological sources on the island of Puerto Rico who experienced the brunt of this dust event over the past 3 days. 💨 Saharan Dust is

Link to the full report–> https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/hurricane-forecast-models-get-boost-new-satellite-data