A Very Nice Weekend… Rain for the Fourth? June 30, 2007

It looks like the weekend as a whole is definitely shaping up to be a nice one. However, what stinks is that the only chance for rain out of the next seven days will arrive on Wednesday with a cold front. Of course, Wednesday is the Fourth of July, so it’s less than [...]

Thoughts of a North Woods Getaway June 29, 2007

As the weather turns hotter and more humid moving into July, I don’t know about you but my mind starts to think about “escaping to the north.” I’m talking of the north woods of Minnesota, that is. Here is a place where true wilderness abounds and a person can truly be alone in solitude. [...]

Tranquility Base: "Is This June?" June 28, 2007

Very comfortable weather has settled in over the northern and central plains. Dewpoints are in the 50’s, which is much more typical of early Fall but which is quite unusual for late June. A bank of high clouds should keep us from seeing much full-out sunshine today, but it will still be [...]

Another Front Bites The Dust (for Omaha) June 27, 2007

Last evening, a cold front moved through without a drop of rain falling on Omaha.
Now that same front is stalled out and producing boatloads of rain on areas like Fairbury, Beatrice, Falls City, Brownville, Rulo, and Maryville, MO (and just generally in our southern viewing area next to Kansas and Missouri). In concert with an [...]

Prepping Yourself June 23, 2007

Consider today a little gift from Mother Nature. A good day to give the AC a rest, before it needs to be turned on for a few days. Clouds from yesterday’s system got in the way of the the sun and made sure that today was pretty comfortable. My wife and I [...]

Let The Rain Come Today June 22, 2007

Today is our day, rain-wise, for Omaha AND how convenient that there is no CWS game to be rained out.
It’s a complicated forecast setup to get us the rain and (no surprise here), it involves the threat of severe thunderstorms. A nebulous area of low pressure, and a very weak cold front may collude to [...]

Hoping and Wishing June 21, 2007

We’re getting to the point where the rain situation is becoming very serious. We’ve got one good chance for rain over the next 24 hours and after that… it looks like we’ll be dry for seven days after that (save for a slight chance of rain Tuesday afternoon). The problem will only be [...]

Starting to Need Rain June 20, 2007

Hey Folks,
Roger Schwartz here at the keyboard. We are starting to get dry here in Omaha with a 2.3″ deficit for the month of June so far… It should be noted that many areas west and north of Omaha, (even 20 miles west) like Valley, HAVE seen significant rains. Areas of eastern Sarpy [...]

Thanks Clouds… June 17, 2007

I would like to thank the clouds for their appearance today, because it made the weather much more livable… or as I like to say, livabler. The clouds didn’t make it cool outside, but it knocked off 3 to 4 degrees from our high temperature today. While it was a couple degrees cooler, it was [...]

Hot Weekend… June 16, 2007

I got back on Thursday from a little baseball roadtrip and we couldn’t have asked for much nicer weather. My friends and I headed to Chicago/Mariners on Tuesday and caught at Cubs game. Then we drove to Cinci on Wednesday to see a Reds/Angels game. They dropped me off in Columbus on [...]