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Here is a great viewer question we received:
When Gary was on with the weather news at 5pm tonight, he showed the month of July with the temps that we've had for each day. Just wondering if it would be possible to put that somewhere on your weather website or in the blog? It's always interesting to look back and see how hot or cold we were!
Thanks,
Shirley Jones
Shirley, I love the idea of posting a calendar to look back on! I will try to make it a point to post one in the blog the first week of a new month. I found this one on wunderground.com... it seems to be pretty good. It includes the daily high/low and precip... and even has the averages:
JULY IN REVIEW
Now on to forecast thoughts... We are still under the influence of our upper high. This should give us two more days of hot weather, with highs climbing into the mid-to-upper 90s both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Shorter term... the models are developing an area of rain tonight just to the West of KC. Here is the GFS:
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.... And the NAM:
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The models seem to be picking up on some lift in the atmosphere... here is the NAM's lift:
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The area in yellow/green is the area of lift. There really isn't a WHOLE lot of moisture to work with here, so the chances are slim that we'll see any rain... but it's worth keeping an eye on!
These same two models are differing on rainfall AMOUNTS with Thursday's cold front. The NAM is going with a good .25"... while the GFS barely gives us .01"!! Hopefully we'll be able to squeeze out a little more than THAT! We'll see as we get closer...
I wanted to post the diagram below... GREAT picture of all the components of a mature thunderstorm.
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It's been awhile since we've seen any of those around here! :) That's all for now... I will post more later, if anything changes!
Have a super night,
Jamie
Posted by at August 1, 2005 4:37 PM
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It seems like last night's sunset was "oranger" than most - casting an orange-y light over everything. I read somewhere that a dust cloud off of Africa was heading toward the United States. Did that cause the orange hue to last night's sunset?
STEVE:
The dust cloud you mentioned was supposed to affect the United States LAST week, and the chance of some of that dust making it up to KC was low. But yesterday, we did have higher amounts of ground level ozone and a moderate amount of particulate matter... so that could have had something to do with it! Here is a link to the African dust cloud if you want to read more about it:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/25/dust.storm.ap/
Jamie
Posted by: Steve in OP at August 2, 2005 8:58 AM
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