Almost three in four Americans drink a cup of coffee every morning but this popular pick-me-up could be getting more expensive. The global appeal of coffee makes it susceptible to worldwide changes in supply and demand and weather also plays a large role in how coffee is grown and transported. Coffee is grown in the
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THIS AFTERNOON: Partly cloudy with rain tracking by to our southwest. Isolated showers are possible in Sedalia and the Lake of the Ozarks this evening. Temperatures are still hot with highs reaching 90, feeling like upper 90s. TONIGHT: We cool down as a front slides south overnight. Lows fall to the upper 60s. EXTENDED: A
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TODAY: Partly Cloudy skies form by this afternoon as a wave passes by to our southwest. Some may see showers and thunderstorms from this wave. The greatest chance for rain will be from Sedalia to the Lake of the Qzarks and west. Temperatures are not as hot today, but still warm, with highs reaching 90,
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Hundreds of electric cooperative members lost power as storms moved through parts of mid-Missouri on Thursday night.
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TONIGHT: Strong to severe storms surge ahead of an incoming cold front lasting throughout the first half of the night. Winds up to 70 mph, hail up to 1.5″, and a low but not zero tornado chance remains possible tonight. Lows cool near 70 degrees. TOMORROW: Friday welcomes partly cloudy skies with highs up to
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Little has changed in the forecast for Thursday night, other than the fact that we now have some added clarity of where and when the best chances for storms will be. We’ll have two primary rounds of storms. Our first window for sever weather will come with development in the south that
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TODAY: Thursday is an ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day. We’ll have a chance for severe storms including the chance for hail, damaging winds, and a possible tornado from 3 p.m. to around midnight. Additionally, it will be hot and humid, with highs ranging from high 80s in the north to mid-90s in the south. Some
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Thunderstorms in Mid-Missouri recently brought heavy rain and some incidents of flooding to the area. These storms have been efficient rainfall producers thanks to heavy moisture in the atmosphere, some storms hit rain rates up to 6″ at times. But this rate of rainfall isn’t the same as what is observed in rain gauges. The
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TONIGHT: Temperatures overnight cool into the lower 70s as winds continue out of the southeast at 5-10 mph. A few isolated showers/ storms remain possible with lightening and moderate downpours. TOMORROW: Thursday is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as two rounds of showers and storms push into the area. Early Thursday morning, a
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Heavy rainfall in Columbia led to flash flooding on some roads Wednesday.
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TODAY: Showers and storms are forecast this morning through the early afternoon. With efficient rainfall rates and potential for repetitive rain, we will have some potential for flooding. We are warmer today, but with rain and clouds, we still expect highs to be below average, in the low 80s. TONIGHT: Rain lets up this afternoon,
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CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Ernesto continued to unload flooding rainfall on Puerto Rico as it pulled away from the island Wednesday afternoon after its strong winds knocked out power to hundreds of thousands there and in the Virgin Islands. The Category 1 hurricane had maximum sustained
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TONIGHT: Scattered showers and storms remain possible overnight with lows into the upper 60s. Moderate downpours and lightening remain the main threats. Isolated flooding remains possible. TOMORROW: Wednesday morning welcomes more widespread showers and storms increasing the possibility of flooding with slower moving moderate showers. Highs increase into the mid-80s with a drier afternoon. EXTENDED:
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TODAY: Scattered showers and storms with moderate downpours and lighting continue across the region. Highs top out into the upper 70s. TONIGHT: Rain will taper off after sunset temporarily, but an increase in our low level winds will nudge a warm front north which will instigate widespread thunderstorms across the region. This likely fires up
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SETUP: A warm front will lift into the region, as our low level winds from the south ramp up behind it. This will generate storms along and parallel to the front late Tuesday night through Wednesday morning. Storms will have some motion parallel to the front thanks to a jet stream of the same orientation.
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TODAY: We’ll start dry with at most a few spotty showers through 7 a.m. Better shower coverage returns by 10 a.m. and persists through the afternoon into the evening. Thunder is unlikely with most rainfall, with the best chance at lightning coming near the Lake of the Ozarks in the afternoon. Temperatures will once again
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TONIGHT: Overnight lows cool to the mid-60s with a few isolated spotty drizzles possible. Winds remain out of the northeast at 2-5 mph. Patchy fog remains possible. TOMORROW: Tuesday sees scattered shower and storm chances into the afternoon hours. Highs remain into the upper 70s. EXTENDED: Shower and storm chances remain possible into Wednesday morning
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TODAY: Monday starts off somewhat soggy, with showers ongoing early before sunrise for some. Increasing chances for showers and storms come through the morning areawide, before leaving us drier by the afternoon and evening. This will limit temperatures, but the question is how much. This depends on the arrival of rain, but the forecast high
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 members are back home. The Boone County Fire Protection District wrote on its social media Sunday that Task Force 1 returned home safely just after 11 a.m. “The team members are deeply grateful for the opportunity to assist those in need. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking cloud cover becoming more dense and rain/storms entering from the west through the overnight hours. Temperatures will only drop into the mid 60s due to persistent overnight cloud cover. TOMORROW: I’m tracking widespread rainfall for most while heading out the door for work in the morning. Rain and storms will continue throughout
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