Memorial Day Weekend ~ too much rain!!!

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend. Between the rain showers, mine was wonderful!! Over the past week, my station has recieved over 1.5" of rain! I'm ready for a hot & dry spell.

Saturday was a graduation party for my oldest nephew who just graduated high school! Congrats AJ!! I got to visit with my baby brother ~ WxWatcher. Here's a photo of the two of us...

On Sunday, the kids and Tim and I enjoyed a bbq at a friend's house. The kids enjoyed some time in the pool ...

.... then it started raining, but that wouldn't stop my youngest from enjoying some basketball!!

It rained off and on (mostly on!) the rest of the afternoon and evening. It was a good weekend nonetheless. I hope you all had some fun too.

I think this weekend, for us, will be hot and dry. I'm actually looking forward to that - getting kinda tired of the rain.

Have a great weekend everyone!!! :o)

Ami

Beautiful Weather

I was wrong about the "cooler" part of this week...that was just over the weekend I guess. The weather this week has been nothing less than absolutely beautiful! Highs have been in the low to mid 80's, and the sun has dominated the skies. It appears that the Memorial Day weekend will be just as nice, although we do have a chance of t-storms each day.


I am sharing some pictures of the creek behind my place of employment ~ for two reasons. I think the baby ducks are so cute, and also so you all have an idea of what the creek normally looks like, and can compare that to the flood pictures I have shared.

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Memorial Day weekend!! :o)

After the Rain

As far as I know, there wasn't any major damage from last night's storm system. The lightning display was amazing, and rain at my station was .73". According to additional CoCoRaHS reports, the storms brought up to 4-5" in areas of Northern Missouri. Looks like we have cooler, but calmer, weather in store for the next few days. Maybe even a chance to get outside and enjoy God's beauty!

It appears the stormy weather pattern is over for now. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

~ Ami ~

Another Chance of Storms

The visible satellite image this morning shows the storms that are to my north, and a glimpse of the beautiful weather I am NOT enjoying from my desk at work!!! The temp when I got to work was already at 70, and with the plentiful sunshine, we should warm up rather nicely today. The down side to this is the chance of severe weather again this evening.


Hopefully, the storms will skip us and just allow us to enjoy the warmth of the day.


I hope you all have a wonderful Friday, and a great weekend! :o)

Current Radar/Severe Wx Possiblity

I admit that I don't know as much about weather as I would like...





However, check out this storm as it is threatening our area. I don't think I've ever seen a radar image quite like this one around here. It looks almost like a hurricane! Quite a spin in the atmosphere is all I can tell about it. I would love for any of you to further explain this to me!!





Here is the radar graphic as of a few minutes ago, courtesy of Weather Underground.

Here is a close-up of it as it is passing through my area, about 45 minutes after the first radar image.

Flooding 5/8/09

Okay, as this is my very first post on my very first blog, you must be forgiving in the lack of my ability! :)

That being said, I wanted to share some pictures I took during the flooding that occured after some severe storms swept over the area on May 8. My children ended up in the hallway of their schools for approximately 2 hours while the tornado sirens kept going off.

Here is the storm summary from the National Weather Service website...

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=05_08_2009

The spring-fed creek behind my place of employment, which usually has MAYBE 8 inches of water flowing through it...

These flood waters had mostly receded in a few hours, but creeks like this one flow into the Meramec which was well out of its banks by Saturday. I took these pictures at The Rafting Company just outside of Steelville, MO.

In this last picture, you can see how high the water got during last year's flood - the water mark is almost half-way up this building. The river is normally located just on the other side of the tree line.

For those of you who have been on me to get my rain gauge up, I PROMISE to TRY to get it up today! :)

Happy Mother's Day to all of you!!!!