Summer in Missouri is punishing enough. A visitor once told me the thing that struck them about Missouri is it had no discrimination regarding bad weather; it's got it all. A typical Missouri summer is case in point, and the Summer of 2010 seems bound and determined to remain in our memories as one of the most uncomfortable. It's been unusually hot, the temps reaching in the 100s twice, both times earlier than normal; with them has come high humidity to make it feel even hotter. Midwestern summer afternoons can be characterized by pop-up thunderstorms due to the heat, but this summer the storms have been nonstop, more extreme than usual, releasing so much rain the tributaries are perpetually overflowing, the mighty Missouri running uncomfortably close to flood stage for a couple of months now. Storms have made for some interest sky watching as well. These were taken with a bad camera, but I think you can still tell the sky has looked pretty ominous, and downright bizarre, this July and August.
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| Dome Cloud |
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| weirdly shaped layers |
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| lit from within |
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| heading into it |
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| run away! |
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