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Post by BRTNWXMAN on May 29, 2023 14:41:13 GMT -6
*chirp*
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Post by John G -west belleville on May 29, 2023 20:26:04 GMT -6
In Destin, Florida for the week. Temps aren't supposed to get above 84 here this week. |
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Post by REB on May 30, 2023 7:46:00 GMT -6
In Destin, Florida for the week. Temps aren't supposed to get above 84 here this week. have fun |
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Post by dschreib on May 30, 2023 8:07:36 GMT -6
It is absolutely gorgeous today! Giving some red meat the smoke treatment today. I hope you all are having an amazing Sunday! Smoked my first brisket yesterday. Pretty small, at just over 5 lb. I give myself a B-. Flavor and smoke were both good, bark was decent, but a little overdone.
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Post by Snowman99 on May 30, 2023 9:20:18 GMT -6
I've done several briskets...not an expert by any means. But I use salt and pepper as the rub...lots of it. Sea salt. Fresh ground pepper. Smoke around d 200 till it reaches 165, wrap in butcher paper, turn temp up to 225, take it off when it reaches around 190 wrap it in plastic wrap with the butcher paper still on and stuck in a cooler for a few hours.
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Post by amstilost on May 30, 2023 11:20:59 GMT -6
Well coming out to move the water on our potato crop heard a Jet and looked up and a kc-135 tanker was refueling a B-2 bomber right above my house (7 miles west of De Soto)😁pretty cool, it was going Westbound and seen an AWAC's going eastbound. I think they're called E2C or that's the carrier based one I don't remember now but it was the big one. Stay safe to all our men in uniform
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Post by bellevillewxguy on May 30, 2023 11:39:09 GMT -6
June trending drier and drier again, and monster ridging showing up in the GFS by around June 10 and beyond. There's a shot of 100*F somewhere in the next 2 weeks. More likely for that to happen in 2 weeks then any rain...
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Post by jmg378s on May 30, 2023 17:04:24 GMT -6
I'm no expert either but I've found the smaller briskets tend to dry out more quickly while trying to get them to a good tender point. So I just smoke whole briskets now and use a similar process as Snowman with some minor mostly meaningless differences. Certainly not winning any bbq championships but they've all came out great that way so far.
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Post by John G -west belleville on May 31, 2023 7:20:50 GMT -6
In Destin, Florida for the week. Temps aren't supposed to get above 84 here this week. have fun Thanks. Last night we heard and felt the sonic boom from the Crew Dragon splash down. If we had known I would have been outside looking up |
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Post by cardsnweather on May 31, 2023 11:00:20 GMT -6
June trending drier and drier again, and monster ridging showing up in the GFS by around June 10 and beyond. There's a shot of 100*F somewhere in the next 2 weeks. More likely for that to happen in 2 weeks then any rain... I am not seeing this monster ridging you are referring to? Maybe I’m missing something but long range looks pretty typical for mid June. |
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Post by bdgwx on May 31, 2023 14:29:31 GMT -6
It doesn't look like we're going to get any meaningful rain today. That will make May 2023 the driest since 2005. Yes, drier than 2012 even. And ensembles are looking anemic with rain in the next 10 days so June is not going to be off to a good start. I'm having a hard time envisioning how the immediate metro area will avoid being upgraded to at least D1 drought by next week if not tomorrow.
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on May 31, 2023 16:53:20 GMT -6
June trending drier and drier again, and monster ridging showing up in the GFS by around June 10 and beyond. There's a shot of 100*F somewhere in the next 2 weeks. More likely for that to happen in 2 weeks then any rain... I am not seeing this monster ridging you are referring to? Maybe I’m missing something but long range looks pretty typical for mid June. In his defense, he did say "somewhere"... |
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Post by Snowstorm920 on May 31, 2023 18:24:42 GMT -6
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Post by jeepers on May 31, 2023 19:14:56 GMT -6
This stinks.
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on May 31, 2023 20:32:50 GMT -6
I'd love to know how they plan to mitigate the drought
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Jun 1, 2023 5:27:30 GMT -6
It's been fun watching POPs this week go from 50% to 40% to 30% and now 20%. And by fun, I mean infuriating.
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Post by amstilost on Jun 1, 2023 7:27:38 GMT -6
It's been fun watching POPs this week go from 50% to 40% to 30% and now 20%. And by fun, I mean infuriating. After seeing all the clouds forming yesterday afternoon I was quite confident there would be some widespread rain today. I didn't even know they had backed off until I read your post. That really bites. |
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Post by amstilost on Jun 1, 2023 7:53:25 GMT -6
I was trying to figure out why I've seen so many air quality alerts on the weather forecast page, then I just seen on the 'Weather Story' link that they just started doing it this year. Growing up in California in the late 60's, early 70's when I could actually see it and feel it in my lungs made a big impact on me. Then with the advent of the EPA and all the stringent restrictions and rules that they made at that time really seemed to make a big difference. Fast forward to moving out here in the late 80s and I'm working in downtown St Louis for the next 30 Years. I remember seeing Air Quality alerts on the message signs when they were installed over the highways and also seeing the brown Haze hanging low on the horizon around St Louis. I had generally attributed this to the power plants that circled the area from Labadie to Portage de Sioux to Meramec and Rush Island, then to the east side with Alton and Baldwin and now Lively Grove. For whatever reason I never thought about industry like the steel plant at Granite City or the oil refineries around Roxana. I guess that's cuz I was always working around the power plants as we were outfitting them with new pollution controls throughout the 90s and 2000s. Now several have been shut down and or mothballed. I know a lot of this is because, obviously, they were old and retro fitting is expensive but we've also lost a lot of Industry that we used to have in the seventies and eighties that required a lot of energy. Is our air quality worse now than it has ever been? If so, why? I don't know how to look this up. I know the AQI index has given the average # of days for each level of unhealthy air. What atmospheric events make for the worst air quality days and have those changed over the years? I tried to condense this.... sorry.
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Post by bellevillewxguy on Jun 1, 2023 9:19:08 GMT -6
It's been fun watching POPs this week go from 50% to 40% to 30% and now 20%. And by fun, I mean infuriating. As we always say... Maybe in 2 weeks!  |
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Post by dschreib on Jun 1, 2023 10:25:22 GMT -6
I'd love to know how they plan to mitigate the drought I'm sure it's going to be pumping some of the water from the reservoirs out west, instead of what they were going to do with our rivers prior to the 1000" of snow pack. |
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Jun 1, 2023 11:06:16 GMT -6
I was trying to figure out why I've seen so many air quality alerts on the weather forecast page, then I just seen on the 'Weather Story' link that they just started doing it this year. Growing up in California in the late 60's, early 70's when I could actually see it and feel it in my lungs made a big impact on me. Then with the advent of the EPA and all the stringent restrictions and rules that they made at that time really seemed to make a big difference. Fast forward to moving out here in the late 80s and I'm working in downtown St Louis for the next 30 Years. I remember seeing Air Quality alerts on the message signs when they were installed over the highways and also seeing the brown Haze hanging low on the horizon around St Louis. I had generally attributed this to the power plants that circled the area from Labadie to Portage de Sioux to Meramec and Rush Island, then to the east side with Alton and Baldwin and now Lively Grove. For whatever reason I never thought about industry like the steel plant at Granite City or the oil refineries around Roxana. I guess that's cuz I was always working around the power plants as we were outfitting them with new pollution controls throughout the 90s and 2000s. Now several have been shut down and or mothballed. I know a lot of this is because, obviously, they were old and retro fitting is expensive but we've also lost a lot of Industry that we used to have in the seventies and eighties that required a lot of energy. Is our air quality worse now than it has ever been? If so, why? I don't know how to look this up. I know the AQI index has given the average # of days for each level of unhealthy air. What atmospheric events make for the worst air quality days and have those changed over the years? I tried to condense this.... sorry. The air is cleaner than it was during the 70s and 80s in large part to emission controls on vehicles and like you said, loss of major industry. There have been a lot of air advisories lately due to the stagnant flow aloft and upper level high pressure which isn't conducive to mixing of the lower atmosphere. There's also a lot of particulate due to the dry conditions. |
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Post by amstilost on Jun 1, 2023 11:14:51 GMT -6
I was trying to figure out why I've seen so many air quality alerts on the weather forecast page, then I just seen on the 'Weather Story' link that they just started doing it this year. Growing up in California in the late 60's, early 70's when I could actually see it and feel it in my lungs made a big impact on me. Then with the advent of the EPA and all the stringent restrictions and rules that they made at that time really seemed to make a big difference. Fast forward to moving out here in the late 80s and I'm working in downtown St Louis for the next 30 Years. I remember seeing Air Quality alerts on the message signs when they were installed over the highways and also seeing the brown Haze hanging low on the horizon around St Louis. I had generally attributed this to the power plants that circled the area from Labadie to Portage de Sioux to Meramec and Rush Island, then to the east side with Alton and Baldwin and now Lively Grove. For whatever reason I never thought about industry like the steel plant at Granite City or the oil refineries around Roxana. I guess that's cuz I was always working around the power plants as we were outfitting them with new pollution controls throughout the 90s and 2000s. Now several have been shut down and or mothballed. I know a lot of this is because, obviously, they were old and retro fitting is expensive but we've also lost a lot of Industry that we used to have in the seventies and eighties that required a lot of energy. Is our air quality worse now than it has ever been? If so, why? I don't know how to look this up. I know the AQI index has given the average # of days for each level of unhealthy air. What atmospheric events make for the worst air quality days and have those changed over the years? I tried to condense this.... sorry. The air is cleaner than it was during the 70s and 80s in large part to emission controls on vehicles and like you said, loss of major industry. There have been a lot of air advisories lately due to the stagnant flow aloft and upper level high pressure which isn't conducive to mixing of the lower atmosphere. There's also a lot of particulate due to the dry conditions. Thanks.... I havent' heard of any smoke around the area lately so everything much be our own pollution and dust. We need the 30-40 mph winds we were having just a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure I had posted a few weeks back that I was tired of the wind. I rescind that statement.  |
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Post by showtime - Marissa on Jun 1, 2023 14:16:42 GMT -6
We got .1 in Marissa!! 2 miles southeast nothing lol
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Post by REB on Jun 1, 2023 15:20:36 GMT -6
We got .1 in Marissa!! 2 miles southeast nothing lol Be thankful for every drop. |
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Post by showtime - Marissa on Jun 1, 2023 16:25:20 GMT -6
We got .1 in Marissa!! 2 miles southeast nothing lol Be thankful for every drop. Very true!! |
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jun 1, 2023 17:17:10 GMT -6
No rain yet but I had a small rumble of thunder along with an outflow wind gust of 25 mph or so.
Edited 10 minutes later: YAY!!! Rain!!! Pretty good downpour.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jun 1, 2023 17:56:13 GMT -6
Even though it was only 10 minutes of rain...
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Post by amstilost on Jun 1, 2023 18:01:19 GMT -6
Looking at radar looks like Pevely or imperial Barnhart got a pretty good downpour. I had a nice cell just to the northwest of me but it's fizzling out.😭😭😭😭
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Post by dschreib on Jun 1, 2023 19:33:12 GMT -6
We got .1 in Marissa!! 2 miles southeast nothing lol There were puddles on Schoolview Dr and not a drop at the house—maybe 1/2 mile away. |
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Post by showtime - Marissa on Jun 1, 2023 20:14:49 GMT -6
We got .1 in Marissa!! 2 miles southeast nothing lol There were puddles on Schoolview Dr and not a drop at the house—maybe 1/2 mile away. Nothing at the golf course either ….a very small downpour |
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