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Flood warnings continue along portions of the Mississippi River this week as overflowing banks were near-historic levels in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and even as far south as Hannibal, Missouri.
As animals, we all have some sort of superpower that helps us survive. A chameleon adapts to its surroundings, deer have an impeccable ability to detect trouble by their incredible scent, and yes, almost every mammal on this planet was born with ears, or at least a way to detect objects by w…
“Why do you like water so much?” is a question that’s hard for me to answer. It’s not because I cannot come up with an answer, but rather I don’t know where to begin.
The 2023 tornado season is starting strong, with more than 300 confirmed tornadoes and 400 preliminary reports since Jan. 1. This is well ahead of schedule for the U.S. and on par with the third most-active start to a year in terms of twisters.
I wrote last week about the sudden inspiration I had when a friend mentioned, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.” I wrote in defense of this argument, even as wicked weather brought deadly tornadoes to the South.
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.”
It’s almost “go time” for hydrologists and river forecast centers.
Considering where we are located — geographically speaking — as well as our recent history with significant weather, it’s safe to say most people in the central to southern plains are intimately aware of severe weather. And it’s in this spirit that we honor what was Severe Weather Awareness …
A usually dry stretch, January and February proved otherwise this year in Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas.
It seems like it was just a few short years ago when the Missouri River rose to a level only seen once before. The first was the Great Flood of 1993 and the recent event came during an epic rise-up of the river in March of 2019. It’s wild to think that the 2019 level in St. Joseph was EXACTL…
The groundhog is a rodent so reclusive you wonder how there are any left to tell us what the weather is going to be.
“Thankfully we’ll never be impacted by a big earthquake,” I overheard a colleague say following the devastating series of powerful tremors that rattled southern Turkey and Syria earlier this week.
The worst of winter is behind us. Well, sort of...
I don’t like starting anything with a quote, but here we go ... Anne Bradstreet paints the picture of our current weather setup nicely.
Living in the Central Plains brings a variety of active weather scenarios that make it the perfect place to experience everything the atmosphere has to offer. There’s a reason students, scientists and general weather enthusiasts come from all corners of the globe to get an up-close view of t…
When steady streams of ice chunks began floating down the Missouri River last month, there were already issues unfolding: not being able to tap into the river’s flow to produce drinking water as well as slow-moving currents being further held up by a scattered sheet of partially frozen river…
We had snow, extreme cold, extraordinary heat and humidity and even a tornado.
While it’s just one of the variables in the game of forecasting, the wind just showed us how impactful it can be ... on a variety of levels.
Tornado alley is more of a parkway.
I dedicate this week’s column to Irving Berlin. Without his musical might, I doubt any of us would care whether or not all our Christmases are white. But alas, it’s that time of the year ...
