The corn & wheat belt is not suffering from drought this summer as they have been getting plenty of rainfall. However, today's rains were accompanied by numerous & strong tornadoes that damaged several small towns & resulted in at least one death. The storm chasers captured rare twin tornadoes
in Nebraska and the chasers appeared to be within a mile of these killers. Obviously, The Weather Channel, CNN, other network News programs love this as I admit, it is captivating video. However, it was only a year ago that 3 veteran chasers were killed when a tornado changed directions and trapped them. I fear we will see this happen again as more and more chasers want to get their videos to the networks. It's not the way I want to earn a living!
Locally, we finally saw signs of typical summer as the Atlantic Ridge/Bermuda High built in over us bringing a SE wind flow that replaced the west winds that lingered for the past couple of weeks. Daily showers develop during daytime heating and that pattern should hang around for the rest of this week with each day having different locations for shower development. Coverage is usually around 30-40% with slow moving storms dumping over an inch in less than an hour. It's called Summer in the South!
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