I want to fly into hurricanes when I grow up! Many who know me know that I’ve wanted to do that for many years. I may have even mentioned it in high school, but probably didn’t talk about it anymore once I learned that most of the people who do that are in the Air … Read more
So…now that Dave and I have left the Raleigh, NC area, they’re getting snow! Again! Meanwhile, we’re still high and dry here in Omaha…but hey, it got down to 10 F this morning! Those who are closer friends with the Vollmers have heard the stories of the freak weather we bring to every location we’ve … Read more
Quote of the day from Timmy: “Did Daddy become a weather doctor to help the weather feel better?” He asked us this as we were walking through a parking lot in a foggy drizzle. He’d been cooped up indoors for the past 2 days and is ready for the weather to feel better. Many of … Read more
This is what Jacob greeted me with this morning. At least he said “Good Morning” first. No, my house isn’t that filthy! As you’ll remember from my Pros and Cons posting at the end of last month, our neighborhood sits just north of a large cattle farm. When the wind is from the south or … Read more
Check out the current conditions at our new house! We unpacked the “kitchen laptop” this morning and with the way our home network will be set up, the only thing the kitchen laptop will be used for is running the weather station. You can click here and see how many weather stations there are in … Read more
Okay, if you’re a USAF Safety Officer, stop reading! I drilled at Shaw AFB this past Sunday and Monday. I left the office at about 4pm and drove east from the base, behind a cold front that brought thunderstorms to the base about an hour earlier. So I was behind the line of thunderstorms driving … Read more
As of 1800 Sunday, July 6th, 2008, we have to bid farewell to the KNCAPEX18 Weather Station site on Wunderground.com. The packers start tomorrow and the weather station needs to come with us to Nebraska. Stay tuned for our weather station’s new location in Bellevue, NE sometime the first week of August. Sniff sniff…
Part of why you guys saw a series of posts about Magic Rocks was because the Raleigh area was under smoke from the “Evans Road” wildfire. The fires are originating near the east coast of NC and today’s easterly winds brought the smoke plume RIGHT OVER Raleigh. It was definitely hazy, with visibility down to … Read more
I’m not going to say too much about this, since I’m just a weather weenie in the Reserves, but I have been noticing the USAF getting a lot of press about how we’re suffering manpower cuts and cannibalization of aircraft to keep our missions viable in the Global War on Terror, while the Army and … Read more