Good afternoon bloggers,
Who is absolutely sick of this weather pattern? It has been so hard to describe, explain, forecast since it began last October. I can’t wait until the new pattern sets up in two months. It can’t come fast enough. How do you feel about it?
And, today is about as ridiculous, and yet amazing, as it can get. An eye of what? Take a look at the spinning disturbance going by this afternoon messing with our sunny forecast for today. There are a few light rain showers around the center of the eye of this “storm”. Can you see the eye? It is filling in and weakening at 1 PM. Wow, we have a cloud storm today in the middle of a drought.
What do you think? I, myself, can not believe this satellite picture. Okay, it’s real. But, it should have, could have been a nice area of rain and thunderstorms. Not in 2012!
Gary
I’m beyond tired of it! Gary, is there any chance that with afternoon heating that this disturbance may re-generate storms for later? Also, how does this play into the earlier mention of rain for Thursday AM? But regardless…at least the cloud cover may hold the temps down a bit.
We’ll just call it Hurricane Kansas then.
And are you going to do a summer review of your summer forecast like you did for the winter? If so, when?
I watched that on radar. You might name it a droughticane.
I have noticed the last few months when these disturbances approach us they fizzle on our doorstep and hop/skip to the SE of the viewing area and reform. Call me nuts, but areas that have had prior rain events seem to be likely areas for spawning new development. Why then does dry ground/dry air seem to prevent storms from blowing on through? How can the top few inches of lack of soil moisture affect weather from the ground to 50,000 feet up? You would think mixing surface winds would make this more random than it appears.
So which came first the chicken or the egg?
I have noticed that also Bruce almost like a dome over the kc metro todays radar chase across Kansas was crazy all the way to topeka then just fizzles!!
I forgot the name of the county but it is just over on the Missouri side and I believe East of Linn County/KS. I’m too lazy to identify the county or the date but they got about 7 inches of rain in one storm in the latter half of June or thereabouts. After that, I would notice storms tended to intensify if not develop over that quarter of just one county. They got so much rain they made a little donut hole on the drought monitor map. I don’t know anything, but hope we can get a knowledgeable comment from someone on this phenomenon if rising ground moisture is involved feeding precip or if is it just the recent UFOs fault.
I would be amazed if inches of soaked ground affected tens of thousands of feet of air above.
Remember the old days when you believed that….the warmest weather came on a SW wind? It was impossible to warm up to 100 on a cloudy day? A summer cold front dropped the temperature to normal?
Here is the new normal….We can hit 100 with a SW wind, a N wind or an E wind. The temperature can climb quickly to 100 even on a cloudy day. The wind shift with a cold front can actually bring warmer temperatures (not to mention a 10 degree increase in the dew point.) Welcome to our new world!
Gary,
That picture of the cloud storm is awesome! finally a little excitement when i opened up the blog this afternoon!!
Gary, a couple of things…
#1: You knew this pattern was going to kick out heavy heat and no rain 2 months ago, just like I did. Stop fighting it. Just go with it. When you’re in a drought, leave the chance of rain out.
#2: If Elizabeth Alex wants you to raise the chance from 40%, make it 41%. Cheap advertising and quite clever.
Gary “new data is coming in” is getting old to hear on every newscast! Why don’t you show the new data “rolling” in every once in a while. It just sounds like a marketing gimmick and it’s getting very old hearing it every single newscast. You act like you are the only one geting “new data” lol. It would be like Jack saying new scores are rolling in every night lol.
I prefer “new data” then watching him play with those mutts,,”Stormy,sit..stand..moon walk..give me kisses..”
I’m ready for the iciest wettest coldest winter on record.
I believe you,ve have a touch of heat stroke
Gary, really interested in getting any reply to my question above. I will check the old blog in the morning. Thanks.
Just saw this on yahoo. Fire Rainbows?
Google the following text and the story and pics should pop up.
“Fire rainbow spotted over south Florida”
Just started raining here in McLouth, KS winds WNW gusting to 33.4 mph