guyatacomputer's Blog

Okay, folks, this is my first attempt at a Fox Weather Blog so please be gentile.

I felt I needed to start one because of the incredible weather set up we're starting to see for the beginning of this week. As I'm writing this there are six tornado watches in effect and two severe thunderstorm watches - including one for metro St. Louis - across the Central U.S.. Here in O'Fallon, MO we have had 3 or 4 rounds of t-storms today. The air has the thunderstorm "feel" to it, and there is pretty good temperature contrast between St. Louis at 73 degrees and Springfield, MO at 87. The promised beautiful weekend is here, as long as you can duck inside when the storms come through. This is definitely a time to have a weatheralert radio close by. Angela Hutti's video of the tornado could be repeated numerous over the next few of days, including right here in the bi-state area.

The severe weather possibility is supposed to continue into Tuesday. There is also the possibility for heavy rain, with the QPF forecasts showing as much as 4" of rain for us, and as much as 6 in northern Missouri. I'm not putting much stock in the precision of those amounts when it's being generated by such unpredictable storm patterns is not all the good...and it can't be given the current imprecisions that exist in the science. Stil lthe potential is there for a very wet couple of days.

Finally, a HUGE THANK YOU to all the military veterans and their families this holiday weekend. I value my freedom, and I know it is as a result of your commitment that I have it.