There are two hurricane seasons; one in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic. While they don’t coincide perfectly on the dates that they run, these two seasons do directly impact each other. Last year, activity in the Pacific was very low, but we saw record breaking storm activity in the Atlantic. Usually, these two
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TUESDAY: Another disturbance is bringing back the clouds this morning. A few sprinkles will be possible, south of I-70. Most of us look to stay dry again today, with highs topping out in the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll keep the clouds around into tonight, with lows falling into the low 40’s. EXTENDED: The sunshine returns tomorrow morning, and
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TUESDAY: Another disturbance is bringing back the clouds this morning. A few sprinkles will be possible, south of I-70. Most of us look to stay dry again today, with highs topping out in the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll keep the clouds around into tonight, with lows falling into the low 40’s. EXTENDED: The sunshine returns
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and chilly. Lows in the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and cool with a chance for spotty showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to around 60. EXTENDED: High pressure sitting over the Great Lakes is keeping us anywhere from 10-15 degrees cooler than normal and we won’t break back into
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The Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15th through November 30th. Mother Nature, however, has decided to kick things off a little early. Tropical storm Andres has set a new record for the earliest named tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean. The old record was set on May 10th, 2017 with tropical storm Adrian, but
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MONDAY: Some of us will wake up to some fog around the area. That mix of sun and clouds will turn mostly cloudy early on. A few spotty sprinkles will be possible from the late morning into the early afternoon. Temperatures will bounce back from a cool start into the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll stay quiet and mostly cloudy
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MONDAY: Some of us will wake up to some fog around the area. That mix of sun and clouds will turn mostly cloudy early on. A few spotty sprinkles will be possible from the late morning into the early afternoon. Temperatures will bounce back from a cool start into the low 60’s. TONIGHT: We’ll stay quiet and
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Tonight: Clouds begin to push east along with this past morning’s cold front. Mostly clear skies overnight and northerly flowing winds will lead to cooling temperatures where we will be bottoming out in the lower 40’s. Tomorrow: We see a slight warming trend tomorrow with partly cloudy skies along with winds switching slightly from the
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TODAY: Storms from overnight will switch over to scattered showers by the early morning. Expect some lingering rain just before noon, and a cloudy and cool afternoon. Temperatures will stay steady in the mid-50s today. TOMORROW: Clouds break apart a little for Monday to help highs reach the low 60s. Winds will stay calmer as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Storms hit the Boone County area on Sunday morning and caused damage within the Columbia area. Severe weather on Sunday morning caused a tree to fall in the middle of the road near the corner of South William and Ross Street. A few residents in the area who saw what happened, reported
Continue Reading Tonight: The ABC17 Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for tonight into tomorrow morning as a threat of possible strong to severe thunderstorms way their way into Central Missouri. A low-pressure system moves overhead tonight and by 1 am we see thunderstorms just off to the west. By 2 am these storms will
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TODAY: A Weather Alert Day is in effect overnight Saturday into Sunday for the threat of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain. We stay mostly cloudy with a chance for widely scattered showers and a few storms through the morning. Highs in the 70s to the southwest and the mid-60s elsewhere. Conditions clear up for the
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a chance for widely scattered showers and a few storms through Saturday morning. Lows in the upper 40s to around 50. TOMORROW: Partly to mostly cloudy and cool for areas north of I-70, slightly warmer farther south. Most of the day is dry before a complex of storms arrives late tomorrow
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FRIDAY: We’ll get off to a crystal-clear start this morning! All of that sunshine will get the ball rolling in the right direction, pushing temperatures into the low 70’s. Clouds will return by this afternoon, with a chance of a shower by the late afternoon hours. TONIGHT: That chance of rain sticks around overnight. Lows will fall
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The week will end on a nice note with high pressure just to our west on Friday, keeping pleasant conditions around Mid-Missouri on Friday night. The ABC 17 Stormtrack weather team has been tracking the potential for rain and storms over the weekend for the last several days, but there has been some uncertainty in
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FRIDAY: We’ll get off to a crystal-clear start this morning! All of that sunshine will get the ball rolling in the right direction, pushing temperatures into the low 70’s. Clouds will return by this afternoon, with a chance of a shower by the late afternoon hours. TONIGHT: That chance of rain sticks around overnight. Lows
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A nationwide outage in March rendered the weather service’s chat function, which also serves as a source of communication, inaccessible for a whole day.
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TONIGHT: Decreasing clouds and chilly, lows in the low 40s. TOMORROW: Increasing clouds and breezy with west winds up to 20 mph. Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. EXTENDED: Spotty showers will be possible through Saturday morning, with a possible break during the day. There is still some uncertainty in model forecast guidance regarding the
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Meteorologists around the nation work to collaborate every single day. This communication is an essential part to our daily workflow, especially when there’s severe weather inbound. The National Weather Service largely runs our main communication channels between broadcast meteorologists, emergency management, law enforcement and trained storm spotters. We use an NWS-run tool called Weather Chat
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THURSDAY: A cold front is working through the area this morning. It could have enough to generate a few spotty sprinkles but seems to be losing the battle to dry air. The better chance for some rain and a few thunderstorms will be along and south of the I-44 corridor around the early afternoon hours. The
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