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Quiet for a few days!
Would you believe a cold front came through early this morning? For many of us, it came through with NO rain... and NO drop in temperature! In fact, highs today were a few degrees WARMER than yesterday's numbers! Here is a look at the nation's highs:
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The reason for the lack of a cool down... our winds have not been particularly strong today (thus colder air has NOT been ushered in)... and the front itself hasn't gone too far. It is sitting in Southern Missouri:
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Meantime... we are still waiting for another round of rain! Some of you east of KC had thunderstorms last night but the rest of us remain dry. The next chance of showers and thunderstorms comes on Wednesday. Here is the NAM model's depiction of Wednesday evening:
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Just a 30% chance right now... we will keep watching it as we go through the week. The models are also hinting at a cool down for the end of the week and into next weekend! Stay tuned!
Jamie
Posted by at May 22, 2005 7:09 PM
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I am a high school student who is VERY into weather and meteorology and I really enjoy this blog area. It is very interesting to look at the differnt weather maps that you don't see during the weather segments on TV. Thanks so much for keeping this up. Where can I go to look at other types of weather maps?
GREGG:
Thanks for posting! We are happy to hear you are a blog fan! Here are some websites you can use every day to check out some of the computer models:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/
http://www.weather.unisys.com/
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/model/other.html
Jamie
Posted by: Gregg at May 22, 2005 9:55 PM
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I was reading a book recently and it talked about "heat lightning". Is that such a thing and if so, how does it differ from normal lighting? Thanks for taking the time to post stuff on this blog, we really enjoy it!
Jamie,
"Heat lightning" is just distant lightning. Many times as we go into the warm season thunderstorms form and can be way off in the distance. We can have a thunderstorm out in central Kansas with a clear sky over Kansas City. Lightning is visible, and this is when it can be called heat lightning. It is off in the distance, you can't hear the thunder, but it is NOT caused by the heat. It is just a distant thunderstorm.
Gary
Posted by: Jaime at May 23, 2005 4:26 PM
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