June Ends With A Cold Front

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

davidmcg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:02:05 GMT

I knew it, holiday weekend -- Fourth of July at that. Here comes the precipitation. Chances climbing a little bit more each day right on schedule. Never fails. Gary, you gotta stay in town this weekend, we need dry weather. Hot is ok, cool is ok, but no precip.

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Rain is fine too, but just not during the afternoon and evening. So, maybe we will have it set up nicely.

Gary

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

farmgirl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:37:53 GMT

La Cygne had a brief little shower last night around 3 a.m. complete with thunder and lightening. Not enough to measure, but enough noise to get me out of my bed and bring the horses in. Sleepy today... yawn.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

momof3 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:46:22 GMT

Well we are going to lake Pomme De Terre next week and are hoping for cooler weather than last week. 80's will be fine! Can't wait to see Windy again she was a very precious dog.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Zazel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:56:54 GMT

Level 10 on the Uggy scale should be 'Clothes Clinging Climate'. Given I had less than .10 of an inch of rain this past week, and zero excitement from the storms, it had better not storm on the evening of the Fourth or I'm dropping the gloves and taking it to Mother Nature! ~ Dave

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Dwight — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:25:43 GMT

How did those rains that just missed us last night and this morning happen? any chance of them popping up over the se metro? We have had zilch for almost 10 days now. We need some serious rain in Pleasant HIll.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

TaterPoker69 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:20:58 GMT

How is this for the Uggy Scale?:
0 = Tolerable
2 = Sticky
4 = Thick
6 = Juicy
8 = Soppy
10 = Liquified

Now bear in mind I come from Western Kansas where there is almost never any humidity, so my tolerance is probably different from your own.

Scott

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jbtornado — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:37:02 GMT

I've lived in Central and Eastern Kansas my whole life (so our humidity varies). I just can't get used to humidity.. I worked outside once when it was 97 degrees but it was dry.. It really didnt bother me.. i worked other times when it was 83 but very humid and I was miserable... Too bad I love storms and active weather or I'd probably move to a drier climate :)

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

wicked wx — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:23 GMT

0= acceptable
2= notable
4= irritating
6= thick
8= excessive
10=sauna/extreme!

There are my wicked thoughts! If I had to choose between one of the words on #10, I would personally choose extreme, as it simply sounds more professional.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

LadyBug — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:57:16 GMT

0=Pleasant
2=Noticable
4=Damp
6=Sticky
8=Thick
10=Choking

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lezakEF5 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:13:17 GMT

0 - Decent
2 - Tolerable
4 - Annoying
6 - Soupy
8 - Excessive
10 - Rediculous!

How do those sound? I hope if it rain Thursday it is very early, like before daylight.

Alex in Marceline

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Brocksmama — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:17:59 GMT

0= comf"ahh"table
2= bearable
4= damp
6= swampy
8= Amazon Rainforest
10= sweat-lodge stage

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Nick Rau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:03:43 GMT

Hmmm...
0=Nice
2=O.K.
4=Sticky
6=Bad
8=Very bad
10=Extreme(aka time to go to Canada for awhile;))
Well that is my take on the "Uggy" scale, although today kind of feels like a September day here in St. Joe.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

dezinemark — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:09:41 GMT

OK Weather Dudes, here's my two cents' worth - or rather, two ideas - concerning names on your new Uggy Scale.

The first idea is to take the M you subtracted from 'muggy' & use it to describe the levels of Ugginess:
0= Magnificent, or Mellow
2= Marginal, or Mild
4= Moist
6= Mucky
8= Miserable
10= Mammoth (Monstrous, Mega, etc.) Uggy: M'UGGY!

Now, in case you wanted to downplay the kitchy and go for a more serious message to send viewers who are most at danger in extreme heat, I have a second approach:
0= Zip!
2= Tolerant, or Tiresome
4= Formidable, or Fatiguing
6= Stifling, or Sickening, or Soupy
8= Extremely Dangerous, or Exhausting
10= Threatening to Life

This last one's not as 'catchy' as the first. I was going for using adjectives that start with the beginning letter of each number (Z=0, T=2, F=4, S=6, E=8, T=10) since I couldn't come up with an acronym instead.

Good Luck! You've got a lot of super ideas to choose from...all day long!

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

RDub — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:26:11 GMT

0 = excellent
2 = good (c'mon people, this is only a 62 degree dewpoint here)
4 = noticeable
6 = humid
8 = sultry
10 = opressive

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

FairSkys — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:37:37 GMT

Here's Mine
0 = Paradise
2 = Perfect
4 = Pleasant
6 = Stuffy
8 = Stinky
10 = Stay Home :)

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

wicked wx — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:15:16 GMT

Well, we've all agreed so far on this basically
0= great (<58 degrees)
2= noticeable, but still not bad (62)
4= slightly irritable or annoying (66)
6= thick/sticky/soupy (70)
8= bad/excessive(74)
10= extreme/horrible (78+)

Now, let us all find the right words... ;)

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

RDub — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:43:44 GMT

I wouldn't even agree that 62 is "noticeable". The heat index at 90 degrees with a 62 degree dewpoint is...90. No difference.

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kcwxguy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:50:55 GMT

0=Arid
2=Pleasant
4=Humid
6=Sticky
8=Excessive
10=Unbearable

However, these take on much different descriptions based on what the air temperature is. If 80 degrees, then none of these go above Sticky.

Looking toward the weekend, as the strong Hudson Bay vortex begins to migrate East through the week, look for the ridging to move a bit east with it that is over the SW...as it does so, it will flatten a bit and bring the shortwave highway near KC. This may indicate more MCS events and localized thunderstorm clusters.

Seems the Gulf will be pumping moisture into the south side of the high pressure, and bringing it all the way around the top side for us to enjoy accompanying the shortwave parade.

With this continued feeding of moisture in the region, prolonged heatwaves will be tough to get started in July. Still eying the third/forth week for another push of very hot temps..but that is a ways off...lets try to figure out the 4th first.

The 4th will have rain chances..and likely some significant thunderstorm activity in Kansas at some point in the day...how close will it get and when?

Watch the strength of the ridge moving east and where it pushes the axis...also, we need to see how the shortwave in question gets sampled when it exists on the mainland.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Tony Baker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:30:39 GMT

0 = Dry as Sunday in Tonganoxie
2 = North Shore of Oahu
4 = Normal
6 = The Prairie Shvitz is open
8 = Africa Hot
10 = Baghdad in August

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

RDub — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:37:10 GMT

Don't think Baghdad is what we're looking for here. It's a desert...right now the dewpoint in Baghdad is 36 F.

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Mo Rage — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:12:08 GMT

I've put up pictures of the last two storm fronts coming through the city on my photography blog, if interested:

www.kcphotogblog.blogspot.com

Have a great holiday weekend, y'all,

Mo Rage

re: June Ends With A Cold Front

Tony Baker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:53:13 GMT

RDub - I'm sure your right - for the moment. Its like wearing a wet wool blanket in a sauna when the wind is coming off the Persian Gulf in August. Trust me on this one.