It's Friday night, no, just now it was Saturday and we sit in a nice motel called the Comfort Inn in Kansas City metro, specifically in Lenexa. The last two days we spent with friends of mine in the small university town of Ames, about 30 miles north of Des Moines, Iowa. After Tuesday night we arrived in Des Moines and at the same time the large pool of a local motel chain had used extensively, it was on Wednesday in search of thunderstorms in the east towards Eastern Iowa and Northern Illinois. Unfortunately, nothing came of it, as I think I probably know this mentioned, we received only the backs of some cells visible (see images to remote TCUs), because in our region, unfortunately, does not create a cloud, a little "evil" to be.
spent the night of Thursday, we in the house that is visible in the top left, a real American home that has relaxed its 120 years on his back, and has also withstood every storm. Well, a large tree near it has swept away last year half, but the garden is large enough, the building was off slightly. The hosts were very nice, a nice evening with the finest BBQ could not be missed. On Thursday, the day showed us Scott, a meteorology and environmental science student is at Iowa State University, the nearby Ledges State Park This is a wooded area west of Ames, with deep valleys, some rivers and rock walls. Iowa is not only flat ...
The images of the storm yesterday, we have already presented good, it remains to say that it is cool to 23:30 local time last night in Ames, only about 13 ° C was. Fleece-sweaters we were standing outside on the field. Today, then the stark contrast, blue skies and intense sunshine pushed the temperature to extreme levels. Des Moines came at midday to about 27 ° C, on our way to Kansas City we went not been without air conditioning and when we arrived in KC, there were about 33 ° C. Even some three hours, to 21:00 still "warm" 29 ° C. Crazy Plains. Of cold and wind to sweltering heat, there are sometimes all within 24 hours ...
Tomorrow it goes to the state border Kansas / Oklahoma. There could develop some supercells.
Until then,
Kerstin, and Lars Julian aka "the crew"
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