Browsing Tag: weather

Darn Weather

Growing up in the Midwest, you get used to the crazy weather patterns that happen. The humidity, the thunderstorm, and of course…snow. We are getting our third [or fouth?] snow storm of the winter. Except this time it’s a three day ice-storm-turned-white-out-blizzard storm. It started with freezing rain all day yesterday, which has turned into […]

When It Rains, It Pours

So the last day of 2010 was…eventful. The weather was weirdly warm (60-ish degrees), and the forecast called for rain showers—no big deal, we live in the midwest where weather changes so rapidly. Then the storms came. For the first time in almost 40 years, there were tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Yes, tornadoes. […]