Some saw showers Saturday, but the upper air support for that stuff seems to have moved on for Sunday. I doubt anything beyond a pop-up storm will darken our doppler doorstep today. That’s probably only going to happen southeast of the city during the afternoon hours. The precip totals were streaky yesterday. Totals peaked just […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration Of Degrees
Independence Day always makes me reflect on America’s amazing forefathers. When it comes to weather, Ben Franklin’s the famous flashy guy flying his kite in the storm. But the National Weather Service sometimes claims another revolutionary icon as the first weather watcher. Thomas Jefferson kept a consistent record of his weather observations, in America, and […]
Northern Lights In The Midwest
These are pictures of last night’s rare appearance of the Northern Lights in the Midwest. Those red and pink streaks in the sky were the Aurora Borealis. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center confirmed a moderate Geomagnetic Storm Monday evening. The sun spit out a sizable Coronal Mass Ejection around 2pm Monday afternoon. It only take […]