Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Severe Weather Stayed To Our West. High Winds And Heavy Rains Moved Through Our Area!!

You are looking at the expected final rainfall after all is said and done later on this afternoon.. You can see most of us staying around the inch to an inch and a half mark. Now these are just estimates and not current totals. I will post final rainfall totals on here later on tonight so be sure to check back to see who seen the most after this front pushes off to our east! ;) speaking of this front!!! Let's take a look at our Weather Outlook map for today!
This map above I put together to show you all what we are looking for this afternoon. Yes, you can see we will start out the day with some left over rain showers that will start to push off to our east later on this afternoon. This is when I think we may see the sun try to peak out a bit before the day is over.. Also we will feel slightly cooler today then we are use to! You can see after this front moves through we see our highs in the 60s! Which is nothing we can't handle! ;) Really this is right around where we should be for this time of year! So we really could not ask for much more..



I do know something we all are a little tired of! Yes, you know what I'M talking about! "THE WINDS" Yes, we have been seeing these High Gusty winds the past three or four days! And we seen them again gusting rather high yesterday! Take a look at a few reported wind gusts I have posted below.....
We see Indianapolis coming in with the highest wind gust around 46 mph and then Danville IL, with 43 mph. Lafayette not far behind with a big 39 mph gust and then Remington coming in with a high gust of 38 mph. It is no wonder that flag was standing out nice and stright! LOL. So do we have more of this WINDY mess to get through??? And where was all the severe weather yesterday?? Well, read on to find out! :)
Take a look at all these WILD weather reports seen well to our west yesterday! Yes, also a few tornadoes had been reported some around the WI, and IA, Here are a few of those tornado reports..

IA, BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. WAS ON GROUND FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. TORNADO KNOCKED DOWN SOME POWER LINES.

IA, RYAN FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTING TORNADO ON THE GROUND EAST OF COGGON.

WI, SPOTTER WITNESSED BRIEF TOUCH DOWN.

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Also a few tornadoes in the KS, and OK, areas. More reports posted below..

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KS, OBSERVER BELIEVES THE STORM IS 300 FEET WIDE

KS, KWCH CHASER REPORTS HOME DAMAGE DUE TO TORNADO.

KS, KAKE VIEWER REPORTS BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NORTHEAST OF BURNS AROUND 4PM.

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This just goes to show that things could have been much worse and we are thankful we just seen rain showers and the wind! This time our fair weather friend Mr, High pressure did his part to help out and keep the severe weather away! So now what's in store for the rest of this week? Well, I have put together a Quick Cast Blog Cast for you all below! Take a look...

Today we will see a few morning and early afternoon left over rain showers. Then as we head into this afternoon to this evening we will start to see the clouds break and maybe try to squeeze out a few peaks of sun before the day is over! Highs will be around 66* degrees with winds between 15 and 20 mph with a few gusts to 25 mph possible. Lows will be in the low 50s.

Wednesday is looking like a rather nice day with some Partly cloudy skies and highs in the low 70s. Winds will again be light between 10 and 15 mph which is just what we need. :) Lows will be in the low 50s.

Thursday we will once again see the rain / thundershowers move back into our forecast. Currently nothing is looking severe but we will see rain through out much of the day with the chance for some scattered thundershowers possible that afternoon and evening. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the low to middle 50s.

Extended Outlook. Friday we will see a few more rain showers through out much of the day with highs in the upper 60s and lows in the low to middle 50s. And then the weekend Saturday is looking rather dry with more Partly cloudy skies and highs in the middle 60s..

Have a great day fellow Bloggers! I will check back soon with all those final rainfall totals! Be sure to post yours! And also you can send in your weather pictures if you have any! ;) Have a good one! I will see you soon.....

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