Category: weather

  • Tropical trivia, 2009 style

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    With the Atlantic finally firing up tropical cyclones, I figured to add a little bit of miscellany to it: * This year begins the sixth go-around for the current Atlantic tropical cyclone names. * The fewest number of named storms in a season using this list is 7 (in 1991 and 1997, although there was…

  • Late snow in Kansas

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    We just passed from Winter to spring, yet winter isn’t giving up… URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 437 AM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009 …HEAVY SNOWFALL POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY… .A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BEGINNING FRIDAY AFTERNOON…AND BRING PRECIPITATION TO MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL…NORTHEAST…AND…

  • Twister

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    Last night proved interesting weather wise, especially if you were on the K-State campus for any of the summer camps that were in session. A nasty tornadic storm cell came through. This excerpt from a Severe Weather Statement from the National Weather Service says it all. AT 1101 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND…

  • If you don’t have a weather radio…

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    …you might have a hard time getting one right now. Thanks to a “High Risk” day for severe weather, there’s been a run on weather radios. I was at Radio Shack today to purchase an spare antenna for my TV, the employee there indicated that they ware out of Weather Radios there as well. He…

  • Rainy night in Denver

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    Whenever we went up in the mountains, it never fails to rain on at least one day. This time around, It occurred on night #3, and it rained in a fashion reminiscent of a cell moving through Lawrence.

  • 10,000

    A little bit was made on the Fox News Channel about Senator Obama accidentally stating that 10,000 had been killed in the Greensburg Tornado in reference to comments made Gov. Kathleen Sebelius regarding the state of the National Guard in light of the Iraq deployments. Obviously, he added the thousand by mistake. However, it is…

  • Update… Hello, Andrea

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    The low off of the coast of Florida has officially been recognized as a subtropical storm, as has been given the name “Andrea” The current forecast is for Andrea to move to the southwest and, hopefully, bring some rain to fire ravaged areas of Georgia and Florida.

  • So…

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    The Weather Channel has sent Jim Cantore to Folly Beach, South Carolina to report on the, at the moment, non-tropical moving in from off the coast. Despite the Hurricane Season not starting for another 3 weeks, the Low offshore is clearly a threat. It could still get a name… if the NHC determines that it…

  • Assorted thoughts

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    Weather… we have the town of Greensburg leveled, and the highway closed to keep gawkers away. My uncle Marty’s mother in law lives in the area, and I got a couple of calls asking about her. Meanwhile, it’s been so wet around here that the Kansas River is running heavy, with flood warnings for the…

  • Frightful

    Yeah, we’re past the 12th day of Christmas, but the weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse… I just checked in to the Comfort Inn & Suites in Overland Park, near I-435 and Metcalf before I go to work at the Sprint campus.  Like I’ve said before, I’m in a “critical ops” section,…