A Open Thread Talking About Weather!

[DMW1960]

I'm not finding that IMAP weather radio app for my iPhone. Anyone else find it on iTunes.

Ahh it just takes a good old boy with a laptop that owns a good Motorola phone to find it Slab!!!

It will cost you $4.99 as a one time fee!

Here is the link for all you Apple folks:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imap...io/id413511993

Now let everyone know how it works Slab with all of your travels.

DW

[DMW1960]

Here is the link for iMap weather Radio for us Android phone users. I does cost $4.99 as a one time fee. That's a steal because I paid $9.99 for it a couple of years ago for both me and the wife.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nc.android.mwr

[south point]

I really appreciate this thread and the links. severe weather is something that gets me excited. when we have a good thunderstorm, I'm the guy standing in his garage door drinking a cold beer, grinning from ear to ear. better entertainment than anything on TV! I'm also that guy who is out fishing when a storm rolls in and I always push it to the last minute before I high tail it for the truck. and that has gotten me in a few bad situations. one of these days, mother nature will break me of that!

[DMW1960]

Well south point better get some beer in the frig! I am fixing to share another link and your going to love the middle of this week coming up~!!!

[DMW1960]

Ok earlier in this Tread I said something about the NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center, those boys down in Norman, OK!

Here is their Facebook page for those of you into Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NWSSPC?fref=ts

Now these guys down at Norman, OK don't normally stick their necks out too far. But when they do its time to get things ready for some bad weather! When they are already predicting a 30% this far out its not good!

This is the outlook for the middle of this coming week Wednesday April 8 and Thursday April 9 for Severe Thunderstorms! This is what they posted early this afternoon on their website and also their Facebook page.

The risk for severe thunderstorms will increase across portions of the central United States for the middle of this upcoming week. Severe thunderstorm risk areas have been included in the Convective Outlook for Wednesday (April 8) and Thursday (April 9), as shown in this image. For additional information and the latest updates, please visit NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.



Credit NWS Norman, OK

For those of us with bad eyes that red stuff covers a good part of the state of Missouri.

[DMW1960]

I want to share another link to a Facebook page that covers Greene County, Missouri.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Green...43603205708928

This page is totally run by volunteers. None of them are paid. The senior administrator Patti Flowers Palmer started this page when she saw the need to provide a good source of current weather information on social media. Patti and her husband have long been National Weather Service trained storm spotters. They have also done some storm chasings. During the Joplin, MO tornados both were on site providing the National Weather Service direct reports from the ground via mobile Ham Radio on the changing conditions.

Due to my diabetes and weird sleeping hours due to the pain I was just looking at Facebook late at night. Plus I was also on the lookout for bad storms that might effect my folks in Preston, MO. And I am kind of a weather nut anyway. Weather effects everything on a farm period! If you not thinking about your cows having calves in a snow bank, your thinking about if there will be enough rain in the spring to make hay for next winters feed supply!

Well one night I made some comments on how impressed I was the Greene County, MO Skywarn's Facebook page. Patti and I started PM'ing each other. She found out that I has some extra time and I would be willing to run the page during odd hours. Patti provided some training for me, and I went back to the NWS to update my spotter training. I am now a administrator for the page. During times that storms are moving towards and hitting Greene County, MO, weather spotters are dispatched to different areas of the county. They make their storm reports right into a Ham Radio net control run by Greene County Skywarn. All of these reports are turned into the NWS office here in Springfield, MO.

So when you hear on a TV or Radio station that the National Weather Service is reporting a tornado on the ground confirmed by spotters it could be a volunteer spotter like the group in Greene County Skywarn or law enforcement which are all also trained weather spotters. The Weather Service Radar does a great job of showing tornadoes but they don't always show everything. Sometimes tornados are rain wrapped and don't show up good on radar. Nothing beats a set of human eyes on the ground confirming radar.

So if your into Facebook check to see if there is a local Skywarn group in your area! You will sure learn a lot more about weather from some really great folks! And if you have the time offer to do some volunteer work for them.

Like I have said above in this Thread always have a backup plan for information about the weather in your area. You may never need it but if you do you can rest peacefully at night.

[DMW1960]

Ok I am going to cover the state with big 3, Kansas City, St Louis and Springfield. If you don't see your area then send me a PM and I will help you. Each of the 3 that I am sharing with you are each the same thing except for the office they cover. So when I explain about one the other 2 will be the same.

Kansas City, MO - Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO

At the middle of the page there is a map with all of the counties that office covers. It shows Watches, Warnings and Advisories. It will also show any Hazardous Weather Outlooks on this map.

On the bottom left of the page is the Weather Story this is updated twice per day. Usually in Missouri this is done from 3 am to as late as 7 am and again in the afternoon from 3 pm to as late as 7 pm. And then during severe weather all bets are off as sometimes the Weather Story will be replaced by a Short Term Forecast which will be updated as needed.

At the bottom middle is the local radar from your local office.

At the bottom right is the National Weather Map which shows all the different weather fronts are located at.

Here is the same link for St Louis, MO: St. Louis, MO

And then the same link for Springfield, MO: Springfield, MO

[DMW1960]

I have had some PM's about phone apps. Granted I use several because I am always looking for a difference in everyone's forecasts.

So here is AccuWeather, I just took some screen shots!!

[DMW1960]

This is via: Greene County Missouri Skywarn Facebook page and also the NWS

NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center
Severe thunderstorms will be possible each day this week. This image indicates the Convective Outlook for each day, today (Tuesday) through Saturday. Significant severe thunderstorms will be possible across portions of Oklahoma and Kansas on Wednesday, and across portions of the mid-Mississippi Valley region on Thursday. For additional information and the latest updates, please visit NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center. Check out tips to prepare for severe weather at Severe Weather | Ready.gov.

[south point]

I like all the info accuweather gives, gonna have to download that app. I think all this weather talk has the weather gods stirred up, mother nature was ticked off this morning around Washington!