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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 24, 2024 13:23:05 GMT -6
I plan on making a donation to ponybird in her honor. IF anyone wants to venmo/paypal me, i will make a single donation in the name of MTWSTL. Venmo is @johnpaulg. I meant to do this earlier to send flowers, but life got in the way. I will make the donation on Friday evening. PM if you have any questions, and if this isnt allowed, delete it.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 24, 2024 8:45:47 GMT -6
from a post on caring bridge. April 22, 2024 Journal Entry by Susan Gay — April 22, 2024 We have confirmed Friday, May 3rd at 11AM for Sue's Memorial Service. It will be at Faith Baptist Church 11835 County Road CC Festus, MO 63028 If you will be attending in person and would like to stay for the meal afterwards, please let me know so I can get a count to the Church. Thank you for the continued prayers as we work out way through this time. I commented on CB about her involvement here.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 23, 2024 16:58:21 GMT -6
.55 in the ambient on the roof today
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 23, 2024 9:25:20 GMT -6
Looks like a very active severe pattern across the central US the next several days SPC does have our area in a 15% day 6 zone We're pretty close or in the zone Friday-Sunday. Gonna be a wet weekend
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 22, 2024 18:30:16 GMT -6
Very sorry to hear about that also. I really enjoyed her positive and realistic outlooks! May God be with her family and friends. Thinking back I suppose this is sort of somber first for this forum. She's the only one who was courageous enough to share such an important part of her story with us and thus closure. There are many contributors who have vanished over time without a trace.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 20, 2024 12:07:11 GMT -6
Never met her but felt she was a friend. I’ve been reading the Caring Bridge posts from her husband. This is just so sad. Same.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 19, 2024 15:19:00 GMT -6
Twitter from Mr Deitsch from nws.. if you click on it it'll take you to the tweet, with more info in the comments. What's a bore? Never heard that term
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 19, 2024 11:49:25 GMT -6
Blanket warnings were absolutely warranted yesterday...there were little spin ups every few miles along nearly the entire line and it's impossible to know when one might intensify between scans. www.weather.gov/media/lsx/QLCS_Warnings.pdfThat explains it. I get it now. I thought a few years ago, they were going to ignore small spin ups.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 19, 2024 9:57:17 GMT -6
NWS has already confirmed three small, quick-hitting tornadoes. Brookdale Farms EF1 Horseshoe Lake EF0 High Ridge EF0 What is your opinion of the large tornado warnings that cover long portions of a line? I thought a couple years ago qlcs tornadoes were just going to fall under severe tags
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 22:11:19 GMT -6
Anything to this screenshot i was sent? Scud. The rotation was near Belleville at 6pm. Given the timestamp and the backlighting, that was my first thought, but it was on TV. The preceding ten minutes on radar had a couple hooks just north of eckert's. Just from knowing the lay of the land, I can tell the camera is on the house on green mount looking nnw.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 21:19:11 GMT -6
There are 10 surveys planned in the lsx region tomorrow
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 18:45:12 GMT -6
Anything to this screenshot i was sent?
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 18:40:47 GMT -6
I'm sorry guys, it was just a bad day for me, and I was looking forward for more excitement in my area, I am so sorry, I hope all are well on the east side Every event its something. People come here for information, they CANNOT read things like that. Its irresponsible in the middle of the event. I read that while my workplace was getting buffeted by 60-70mph winds and i had over 75 people sheltering. If the forum had a block button, i'd use it.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 17:59:33 GMT -6
Did High Ridge get hit by a tornado? The velocity signature looked very impressive as it passed through. Sounds like it maybe more towards eureka
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 16:44:15 GMT -6
Metro st.louis was just not in the area for today's storms. Which is a very good thing. I did not want severe here. We only had a tenth of an inch THERE ARE SEVERE STORMS ALL OVER THE METRO! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 16:24:10 GMT -6
He is on a tornado in Greene County, IL. Wow En route Thats the exact path my first tornado went back in 11. Finally produced around honey bend. Good luck.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 18, 2024 14:14:06 GMT -6
As of 2pm, the NAM is too juicy with TDs near STL... TDs in low 60s whereas NAM has it 67. Meanwhile, the HRRR is closer...but looks too dry in the Ozarks. So the TD trends point to more instability than HRRR but not as high as HRRR. Overall, I think that will help keep a lid on the TOR possibilities somewhat...at least until the storms jump off the Ozark Plateau and get near the Mississippi River. It also favors the damaging wind potential. Especially with steep low level lapse rates and drier sub-cloud layer. My Td at the house is runnin 66/67 with a T of 82.6
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 16, 2024 11:30:35 GMT -6
Storms starting to look interesting out west. Will go north but are interesting looking Looks like a lot of competition for fuel.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 14, 2024 9:56:57 GMT -6
Hello Wx fans, and greetings from Longboat Key, FL! So I have a Wx related question… The interface between the beach and the surf (surf line?) is usually a fairly straight line. After a few days of high surf, the interface became a sinuous pattern along the beach. (Maybe a wavelength of about 20 ft) After a day of calmer surf, we’re back to a linear interface. Could anyone provide an explanation of how the sine pattern develops? Thanks! Rip currents. Look those up
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 11, 2024 14:05:34 GMT -6
Crazy sharp gradient on the NW fringe with this system...Jersey Co got almost nothing on the west end while the E side got over an inch. Also outside of a band in west belleville, I haven't seen many report over 2 and across town the amounts are much lower.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 11, 2024 7:30:07 GMT -6
2.4 inches at the house.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 10, 2024 16:27:25 GMT -6
Cape Girardeau was expecting 20K, poplar bluff was expecting 40K. I've heard that Cape's forecast busted with only a fraction of that amount (local media suggests hundreds showed up for the main event on the riverfront, pictures support an attendance in the magnitude of hundreds, not thousands as well). I stopped at Pevely after 3 1/2 hours, so I didn't get to see how traffic was south of 67 (where people would have turned off to go to Poplar Bluff). It would be interesting to see the economic impact reports from the eclipse on these small towns. Interesting to note that the media in Cape changed their focus from number of tourists to distance (the local newspaper says there were people from Europe were in town). It's aggravating that the city and county leaves tourism dollars on the table while surrounding towns planned and publicized events. Yes hotels were booked, but in a small town, that really doesn't mean anything because hotels can be booked with a class reunion and another event like a wedding in town. I certainly wasn't going to pay $500 for a hotel night in a town that is worth $100 at best on any other given night. I do not know what the numbers are in Poplar Bluff, but there was a Jeff Foxworthy concert the day before, so that alone would have boosted tourism in that town of 24K. There was no shortage of events and places to go. I can't imagine it not being a economic success region wide
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 8, 2024 17:00:03 GMT -6
Pics from Pyramid State Park. Unforgettable experience. Weather was perfect, traffic was manageable, and the park was beautiful.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 8, 2024 16:52:26 GMT -6
Here is the weather station data from my house in Belleville. Temperature went from 74.8 to 69.3.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 8, 2024 9:51:37 GMT -6
13 is bad from West Belleville. We are sitting between freeburg and new Athens
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 7, 2024 21:14:35 GMT -6
Well, they said tons of people would flood the region. It appears that is true
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 7, 2024 14:33:04 GMT -6
Hi, everyone…hubby and I are still undecided about where to travel to have the best chance to view totality tomorrow. Are any of you planning to meet up? We’re in Bowling Green, MO…willing to go as far as Vincennes, IN. Excited, as 2017 was such a surreal experience! That includes the nightmare traffic afterwards haha. We are planning on heading down rt 13 towards pinckneyville and getting about 3 minutes of totality. Hopefully avoid the traffic
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 5, 2024 17:35:25 GMT -6
You must get into the path of totality. It's like the difference between driving a Ford and a Porsche.
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 3, 2024 16:28:55 GMT -6
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Post by John G -west belleville on Apr 3, 2024 12:43:21 GMT -6
...or I might just take some of the back roads south through the strip pits and around the back side of Sparta down toward Chester to gain another minute or two.
I also have an Acadia that seats 7, and I swear I'm not a serial killer.
Gonna leave early, pack a picnic lunch, grab some bait and hit up pyramid.
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