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Mostly Cloudy ~ River stage: 33.19 Rising Friday, November 20, 2009 |
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Did you see the sunset last Friday?
Posted Thursday, November 5, at 4:19 PM
With an abnormally nice stretch of weather this week, there isn't much to talk about. Several people submitted photos on semissourian.com showing the spectacular sunset and rainbow that appeared last Friday, Oct. 30, at the end of the big rainstorm. (See here, here, and here.)
At first the sunset seemed fairly ordinary with the sun just barely peeking through the clouds as it dropped to the horizon.
Then I happened to glance to the east to find a jaw-dropping 180° rainbow. How often does this happen?
Meanwhile, the view to the west kept getting better. The sky turned yellow:
And then turned red, with even a hint of purple:
If you were stuck inside Friday evening, you missed what was probably the best sunset of the year -- maybe even longer.
Hurricane Ida
The only interesting thing on the weather map today is Hurricane Ida, now menacing Nicaragua. Ida will weaken and possibly dissipate as it travels through Central America, but one of the computer models suggests that Ida could move north into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthen somewhat before crashing into the Louisiana coast. Oh joy! If the system holds together and doesn't veer off track, it could possibly impact our weather next week.
Still need your opinion for our winter storm naming convention
It looks like we're going with another season of "The Simpsons" unless the voting shifts soon:
Another round of ugly weather for Thursday-Friday If you thought today's steady rain was annoying, just wait for the next storm system. Here is the delightful Hazardous Weather Outlook from the National Weather Service in Paducah: WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY...THURSDAY NIGHT...AND FRIDAY. ...
First winter precip of the season If you blinked, you probably missed the isolated sleet showers that passed through Saturday morning. At around 11 AM, I heard the sound of rain and looked outside to see white things falling from the sky. "Those are some strange looking raindrops," I thought. "But it's too warm to snow!"...
Frost possible this weekend The cold weather is expected to get colder this weekend as temperatures drop into the mid-30s overnight Saturday and Sunday. Assuming that the winds remain calm and these clouds finally clear out, this will lead to a chance of patchy frost both nights...
It's time again for more wild guessing Welcome to autumn. As the calendar officially clicks past summer, it's time to think about the wicked surprises that Old Man Winter will soon bring. The last two winters have been dreadful, featuring a lifetime's worth of ice accumulations. If that weren't bad enough, both winters were followed by equally dreadful springs, delivering the mother-of-all-rainfalls (2008) and the windstorm-that-resembled-a-hurricane (2009)...
Below average rainfall so far this year Pop quiz: How much rain has Cape Girardeau received this year? With all of the crazy weather this year (the historic ice storm, the "Inland Hurricane"(*), and many thunderstorms), it would be easy to figure that we've received well above average precipitation this year...
Winds and storms and rain: Oh my! Say goodbye to yesterday's nice weather. The weather charts are getting ugly again. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory until 10 PM this evening for most of Southeast Missouri. They say:...
Another round of severe weather predicted for Wednesday Update Tuesday @ 3 PM: The best chance for severe thunderstorms tomorrow has shifted north, from roughly Columbia, Missouri, northeast to Chicago. We're not out of the woods, but it doesn't look quite as bad now. The long range charts suggest we could see 4-5 inches of rain over the next week, however...
Was that a hurricane? By James Baughn I did a double-take when I saw this morning's radar image: Did a hurricane suddenly form over Missouri? The huge area of storms over most of Missouri certainly resembled a tropical system, complete with "spiral bands" and lots of reds and oranges on the radar...
Weather charts still show lots of reds and oranges Cape Girardeau has dodged the really heavy rain so far, but much more is coming. Over the last few days, areas just to the north and south of Cape have received 3+ inches: The latest projections from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center at the National Weather Service still show a bullseye over the area for the next five days:...
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Another round of ugly weather for Thursday-Friday
First winter precip of the season
Frost possible this weekend
It's time again for more wild guessing
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