BurningbirdWith the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, Powder stays open later, until 8pm. I prefer going later in the day, as it’s quieter. Fewer people, more birds and deer. Tonight, yesterday’s storm was very evident. I was somewhat surprised to see how many trees were torn up. In some places, half the trees were down. […]
The weather has been extraordinarily erratic: hot, humid, and stormy followed by icy, dry calm, then back to hot, then cold, then back, until I’m exhausted. Seriously, if I wanted to live life alternating between stormy heat and cold calm, I’d date a guy with commitment issues. We spent most of the weekend under a […]
The first of the major Spring storms is hitting us, and will continue for the next few hours. It’s not even Spring, but we reached into the 70’s today, and should drop 40 or so degrees within the next hour or two. Can’t have two such strong systems meet without something bumping. We have a […]
From Weather Underground today: January 2006 will go into the record books as one of the warmest januarys ever recorded in parts of the Midwest. In Quincy Illinois… this past January was the warmest January on record… while in Columbia and St. Louis this January ranks in the top 5 warmest januarys. Specifically… St. Louis… […]
We got our first tornado warnings this morning, before a storm came through that blasted light and sound against my windows. At least we’ve had rain, unlike the folks in Oklahoma and Texas, who are battling some fairly serious plains fires. Too bad these states didn’t get the rain the folks in Northern California received. Speaking […]