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Weather guy at KSDK, Chester Lampkin, wrote this morning that St. Louis is on pace for the wettest year on record. "No year has recorded more rain through August 14th than 2019."
I believe it and that includes the snow we had this winter which seemed to come constantly.
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It's not supposed to rain in August and especially not as much rain as its been dropping. The grass should be dry and browning, but, no, it's green and growing.
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This has been a scary year for weather. High winds, ice, snow, torrential rains all worked together to bring down trees, cause accidents, and make just doing things difficult. Now we hear that tonight we stand a good chance of experiencing large hail, damaging winds, flooding downpours and tornadoes.
Frankly I don't believe any of us here can bear one more downed tree. Trees are lovely, but boy do they cause problems when they fall without warning. Our campus security camera by the chapel caught the most recent huge oak falling Saturday night during a wind and rain storm. It slowly, almost in slow motion, began listing to the west as the huge root ball slowly raised up out of the ground. Then slowly, slowly the tree dropped to the ground.
What was odd was that it fell to the west when the winds were coming from that direction.
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Yesterday a tree company came and cut up and hauled away, the big Oak tree which fell next to the chapel during the Saturday night wind storm. I got a few pictures before they began and that tree was massive and came right out to the ground. It's just amazing it did not hit the chapel windows.
The root ball, huge
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This has been one crazy 2019. Since it began, almost every weekend has brought strong weather which has caused all kinds of problems. Today is no different. We had storms over night with rain and wind and falling temperatures which again brought down a big tree on the seminary campus. This time it just missed the chapel. Praise God for the way it fell.
It seems these trees just don't crack and fall over, they get lifted out from their very roots. A similar thing happened the end of January to a tree next door to our house and fell onto our cars and part of the house. Another fell next to another faculty house last month, and others in more open spaces.
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I am having trouble figuring out just what day it is. So many things are being crammed into each day that each day seems two days long. But, yes, it's Wednesday. I'm pretty sure. Today will be no different with the added forecast of up to 45 miles per hour winds this afternoon. After seeing how wind can take down big trees, I'm not comfortable with windy forecasts.
And as an update for this week:
Mattresses 38
Ladders 32
One of each has fallen already this week.
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Concordia Seminary's select choir put on a concert at Holy Cross in Collinsville yesterday afternoon and it was beautiful. Those voices were so true and clear, just a gift to listen to. There were many people in attendance which was gratifying, you just never know what will happen at 3 on a Sunday afternoon, especially with the NCAA basketball tournament going on and storms predicted.
The storms came after most people were home or on their way and Collinsville was treated once again with more than one gorgeous rainbow.
This photo was taken by someone who works at the Collinsville library which is on the right in the picture. The rainbow completely covers Main Street.
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This winter has been ridiculous but naming all the storms has gotten out of hand. Today we're hearing that a rare Bomb Cyclone is likely to hit Colorado. What the heck does that even mean?
Get this. It's not made up, but a scientific phenomenon that is the aftermath of Bombogenesis. Which doesn't tell us much except that the people of Colorado need to know what's in store rather than being frightened by weird words. So the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tells us this Bombogenesis is a popular term that describes a midlatitude cyclone that rapidly intensifies. A rapid pressure drop of at least 24 millibars.
They also look ahead to blizzard warnings bringing heavy snow and 50-70 mph winds.
So what about us hear in the midwest? We're forecast high winds and heavy rain beginning this afternoon.
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We've had enough bad winter weather on weekends this year that each new forecast has begun to make me pretty nervous. We've had bad ice, snow, wind, bitter cold. Today I'll confess to being anxious about the strong thunderstorms this morning followed by 50 mph winds. After seeing the damage done by the 60 foot tree which fell across our fence and onto our cars and part of the house, I'm more aware of what could happen.
I've been looking around the perimeter of the house and there are big trees everywhere. One in the back yard is right next to the power line. And not just any power line but one connected to that big power canister.
If Dale was here he'd tell me not to worry, but he isn't so there's that.
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Two Fox2 reporters were talking about all the snow the upper midwest has had this winter. One told the other he hopes all that snow doesn't cause flooding in St. Louis this sprAing because it will come down this way.
As if this winter hasn't been miserable enough, he's pointing us to what could be a bad spring.
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