Category: weather
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Lousy weather
From the Sleep Inn in Olathe… The Ice is starting to accumulate outside. Because I work in Kansas City, and I work in what is a “critical ops” section of Sprint… I will be reporting to work as normal. It is bad enough my parents do not want me driving all the way back to…
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Tropical Trivia
Here’s a trivia question for you: what’s the difference between a Hurricane and a Typhoon The answer is: Both Hurricanes and Typhoons are tropical cyclones with winds of at least 75 mph. The difference is mainly one of semantics… they are designated as hurricanes in the atlantic and the eastern pacific, but are known as…
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Like the Rain…
For my first day working the 2-10 shift, the most interesting part was the ride home… I drew “rain” for my first ‘regular’ night trip down K-10. It was quite a light show on the way home, then heavy rain down the “homestretch” I was reminded of a time when a Free State game at…
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Sunday Night Weather
First, a nasty thunderstorm cell tore a path through North Lawrence, delivering Hail up to the size of baseballs. Next thing you know, hours after the storm, the power for most of west Lawrence goes out, and you get left in the dark for some time. The rain gauge is still busted, so I don’t…
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They really mean it
The following is the Hazardous Weather Outlook for this afternoon. I personally have not seen an outlook so strongly worded. The Storm Prediction Center had put Northeast Kansas under “High” risk for Severe Weather… which means that they expect a major outbreak of severe thunderstorms. HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1228 PM…
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What a way to start the morning.
I got out of bed this morning to the sound of the weather radio…. a signs of things to come. At about 8:00 this morning, a rather nasty storm cell passed this morning with a major wind gust. The wind knocked down part of our fence… I called the wind damage in to the Weather…
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Dang, It’s Cold
While refilling my supposedly empty washer fluid basin, I found that it wasn’t quite as empty. I had the bug-cleaning formula of Prestone, and the recent cold snap caused the mixture to freeze solid!!! Meanwhile, I’m stupid enough to go train watching after over half a foot of snow fell on Wendsday. I did wait…
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Nasty flooding to the north
Flooding was a major problem yesterday into today, and a flood warning has been in effect for Jackson, Jefferson, and Northern Shawnee Counties. My Grandma, who live in Jefferson County on Perry Lake, was OK. Most of the roads leading to her house were dry; however, there was one low spot that may have flooded…
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storm cell
0320: I am wakened by a thunderstorm. I tune in the weather radio and subsequently find out that power went out (the weather radio has a battery backup) 0420: Power comes back on 0500: Another Cell passes through 0750: 2.2 inches of rain has fallen since the last time I had emptied the gauge
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rain rain rain
Another 0.6″ was found in the rain gauge this morning