Good morning bloggers,
High pressure is expanding across the northern plains and upper midwest this morning and will shift to the east tomorrow. The low temperature this morning was 55°. Summer officially begins one week from tomorrow, June 20th, and today will be a great late spring day with a forecast high of 82°. Take a look at the surface forecast map valid at 2 PM this afternoon:
A surface high will be moving across Iowa this afternoon and shifting east into the Great Lakes states tonight and Wednesday. As it moves to the east some moisture will return from the Gulf of Mexico and our next chance of thunderstorms will increase just a bit Wednesday night into Thursday. We will go over the details of this chance of rain on 41 Action News today and tonight.
I just took Breezy and Stormy for a long walk before sunrise and stopped by in front of my house to see Summer Breeze, the Killdeer bird, in front of my house. The baby birds are due within 72 hours, possibly today or tomorrow. There was a near bird disaster yesterday when a landscape company was spraying the island (where the bird nest is). They had this huge yellow hose and they were spraying the roses. It was like I was in slow motion as I was running out to try to get them to stop. The hose was just two to three feet from the eggs and Summer Breeze was making his Killdeer sounds in the street and acting like he had a broken wing. This is the male bird. The female lays the eggs and the scrounges around for food while the male Killdeer spends most of the time on the eggs.
Gary
Hmmm, either Gary keeps buying a larger zoom lens or he keeps getting closer and closer to these birds! LOL. What’s next, a picture of the parents perched on your finger?!? I suppose they are just getting used to you Gary! Be careful, they might have you doing a broken wing act soon to help protect the babies since you are going to be their godfather! Just giving you a hard time – enjoy the pics.
Great job Kings!!
Great weather this morning. Low dewpoints and upper 50′s. Pattern is trying to show some signs of being wet. Maybe a good chance of rain Thursday night and then again Monday or so. Saw a report of 2.6 inches down along I-70 near the Blue Springs area from one of my rain gauges at a property of mine. They have had some good totals that way in the last 30 days.
WHATS EVERYONES THOUGHTS ON THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS WEEK? WILL IT HAPPEN?
Should see some development. Warm air will be pushing back in later this week, thunderstorms should form here or somewhere close. Some models are trying to go wet.
This time of year the models have a tough time with weak impulses in zonal flow and the convective feed back can be overdone sometimes.
Gary–glad you were able to save the nest in the nick of time—only received .20 here in Berryton. We have a couple of weather sources around here on TV and separate ones on a couple of radio stations saying that the chance of rain is not promising but will exist not tomorrow night but Thursday night? And the radio sources give better chances of rain the beginning of next week and two other times next week. I guess time will tell. Take care, Michael/Berryton/Topeka area
This is interesting, the peak of the sunspot cycle we’re in right now is supposed to be the smallest in 100 years.
“http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml”
skyler, enjoy while you can. meanwhile, read what National Geographic published in their May issue.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferris-text
Sounds like that was a close call with the birds’ nest! Glad you were able to stop them in time. I probably would’ve done the same thing..I’m a sucker when it comes to helping animals.
Gary congatulations on the Kings winner of the cup. It was a long 45 years for sure. Their run reminds of the Cardinals run last year for the World Series. Looks like Sutter was the right choice for coach! He was a hell of a player in the NHL!