Summer Edging Back

The pattern of steering winds we experienced last week with frequent cool fronts and cooler air has shifted to a more typical summer pattern favoring hot weather over the nation's mid-section and cool fronts staying more north closer to the jet stream winds. This will mean we have several opportunities to reach ninety or higher this week.

Fronts which "backdoor" the Ozarks, those that slide in from the north or even east, will have to watched for showers and thunderstorms which may tone down the building heat a tad on days they are observed.



Ted Keller
Senior Meteorologist
KOLR/KSFX-TV
Storm chasing and more at:
Ceaseless Wind

Severe Storms a Glancing Blow?

The jet stream has shifted back north and east but is still flowing out of the northwest this week. This means that fronts will now frequent areas from Iowa to Illinois and by proximity northern and eastern Missouri.

The next test of this new flow pattern will be a frobt sliding through late Monday and Tuesday. Severe storms will be possible in the zone indicated on the map which would affect areas mostly north and east of Springfield say from Lake of the Ozarks southeastward to Shannon County.


Ted Keller
Senior Meteorologist
KOLR/KSFX-TV
Storm chasing and more at:
Ceaseless Wind