Good Tuesday morning bloggers,
A cold front is moving through the viewing area this morning. When fronts come in from the north and northeast (the backdoor) we usually see almost no weather impacts other than a wind shift and a cooler and drier surge of air & quite often a band of clouds. This is what is going on today. Look at the surface ridge that extends all the way up to the surface high centered near Hudson Bay in Canada:
We are going to start the "Uggy" scale this week. We took the M out of muggy to come up with the name. This scale is going to describe how humid it is outside and I am asking for your help today. Here is how we are going to calculate the Uggy scale. 78 degree dewpoints will be the top of the Uggy Scale or level 10, and 58 degrees will be the bottom of the Uggy scale or level 0. We will take the dewpoint temperature and subtract 58 then divide by 2. So, a 68 degree dewpoint would be 68-58=10. Then, take the 10 and divide by 2 to get the level of 5 on the Uggy scale. We need 6 terms to go on the scale and this is where I would like your help. What should we call level 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10? Let us know today and we will choose the terms by Wednesday night at 10 when we show the Uggy scale on the air.
Here is a picture taken by cell phone at 99th and Metcalf Saturday evening. Jenny Eriksen took the picture looking south at the very heavy downpour moving into Overland Park. Thanks for the picture Jenny! Now, when will it rain again? We will have all of the details on NBC Action News today at 5, 6, and 10 PM.
Have a great day. Look for a blog update later today as soon as I get the Windy the weather dog promos from 1999 on our website.
Gary
