Weather News
Storm named Fay really dumped on Florida, didn’t she?
I suppose it’s been a pretty good year for Orlando vacations, despite tropical storms and hurricane threats. I guess if you live in Florida or visit their much, you get accustomed to those things. (I live in southwest Missouri, and I guarantee you I’ve never gotten accustomed to tornadoes, but who knows?)
But looking around the [...]
Storms, flooding hit home in a small way for my wife and me
If you live there, you really need no travel guides or GPS equipment, or road maps, or anything else to help you find “Tornado Alley,” that part of the southern and central Plains area smacked regularly in the spring and summer by, well, TORNADOES, of course.
Yet who would’ve thought the greatest problems roaring up and [...]
Ah, once again — the beauties of winter life in the Missouri Ozarks
Welcome to southwest Missouri, where I live. We’ve had a touch of snow here. We’ve had a lot of rain, a few tornadoes, and a whole many, many tons of ice. What a winter.
I’ve never understood why people flock to this area, even though Branson with all it’s country music entertainment, a lot of wooded [...]
Everybody’s talking about the weather but nobody’s doing anything about it
Since I was a teenager, I’ve never really trusted the weathermen/women when it comes to forecasting. My wariness began when I saw one of the early space launches canceled because of a chance of thunderstorms within a few dozen miles of the launch site. It occurred to me — when those thunderstorms never happened — [...]
Another winter, another ice storm — winter in the freezing zone
You call it Interstate 44; I call it the freezing zone. This is the 29th winter my family and I have lived in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, in a city along I-44. Not a winter goes by that we don’t have at least one, and usually more, ice storms which weather forecasters inevitably warn will [...]
