Starting at around 5:30 AM in the Forsyth, Missouri area loud and sharp air to ground lightening strikes intensified as they responded to a frontal trough. I have to say that the thunder had a real hard sounding quality to it and, as is normal around here, we lost power for about half a minute. Actually, make that twice as a close lightening strike knocked it out again for a second as I was writing this post. Shocking enough to make your heart stop!! This sort of thing happens with regularity as the local coop, Empire Electric, seems to have only the most tenuous grasp on its electric grid. (When I lived in Chicago with Com Ed, it would take a blizzard to kill the power). Thinking of which, should we experience a hard winter, I cannot imagine this utility working all the time and so would urge everyone to go out and buy a good backup generator.
Along with the thunder came rain, with a real downpour occurring at about 6AM. This didn't last long as the severe part of the system moved quickly on through the area. Behind it were occasional short-lived downpours interspersed with light periods of rain that continued on into the morning hours.
The rainfall for the month, as of noon, amounted to 2 inches in a month that normally sees 3.4 inches. We still have a couple of weeks to go, so I'm hoping we'll hit that mark. This was good to see as I think most everyone would prefer a wet fall over a dry one. I'm not as sure, however, if that would be a good thing should it get carried into the coming winter period as that could easily spell ice! (Note: Last October saw just .56 of an inch of rain and most of that fell on the 26th of the month).
Temperatures during this storm hovered at around 60F. Temperatures for this date expected to get up to 70F or so before a cold front makes it appearance later in the week.
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