Month: September 2019

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Blue Springs Weather Fall Photo Contest

This contest is strictly for fun and no cash or prizes will be given out. This contest is set up to test your talent and creativity through weather and seasonal photography for this page. This will be challenging and possibly difficult for some. I made it that way because I want to show off the beauty of our city’s natural environment and hopefully spark some creativity. One winner will be selected to have their image displayed on the banner of this Facebook page and website at https://bluespringsweather.michaeltpratt.com. Winner will receive bragging rights by being announced on my Facebook page and a blog banner for the rest of the fall season.

Rules:

Please note that ALL submissions become the property of this page and will be used in future posts. Please make sure you read through all the rules and understand them before you submit your photo so you don’t get disqualified.

  1. The photographer must be a Blue Springs resident, all others will not be accepted. One photo submission per person. Photos MUST be within the city limits of our city.
  2. Photo must not have any water marks from photography businesses or any other businesses or it will not be accepted.
  3. Must be weather related to the season, such as fall colors, leaves, rain, thunderstorms etc. No holiday themed photos they must be fall seasoned.
  4. No humans in photos, vehicles, buildings, homes or man made objects in the photographs, must be all natural. (example: Rotary park pond is man made and therefore cannot be used in a photo but the stream that runs to the pond can be used as long as the bridge is not in it.)
  5. Must be high resolution digital images unfiltered with no enhancements, cell phones photos are fine as long as they are high definition type images. Use of flash lighting is fine as well.
  6. Color or black and white photographs are fine.
  7. image format must be in JPG and less than 5 megabytes in size.
  8. Age limit is from freshman to adult.

DEADLINE will be Friday November 1st 2019 at 6pm. Winner will be announced the following week and no later than November 8th 2019.

Questions and entries may be emailed to mpratt@michaeltpratt.com.

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Evening Weather September 30th 2019

Last day of September and I am loving the nice hot weather. I am a Spring/Summer type of person. I dont care for Fall or Winter. I don’t like to put on jackets and coats.

Current conditions. Temperature is 86. We had a high of 86.7° and a low of 67.8° Relative humidity 66%. Winds at 3 gusting to 14 out of the southwest. Barometric pressure is 1011(29.85) and falling. Dew point temperature 73°. Humid.

Current NAM model shows a start time of 1am Wednesday morning. Passing passing through by 7am.

The second system on Wednesday will be on top of us by 7pm. The second system will last until about 10pm.

Temperature will plummet to about 45° give or take at 10am October 3rd Thursday morning barely reaching the low 50s by 7pm. Temperature will dip even further by 1am early Friday October 4th morning, to the low 40s (43 is what the model says).

Time to break out the windbreakers, prepare the humidifiers, and break out and break out the hand lotion. Fall is on its way.

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Monday September 30th Weather Forecast

Good morning Blue Springs and all who follow. Happy Monday! We should be able to dry out before our next system.

Current conditions. Temperature 72.7°. Max temp was 85.1 and min temp was 67.8. Relative humidity 89%. Barometric pressure 1012 and steady. Winds at 2 gusting to 10 out of the east southeast. Dew point 68°. Skies are clear. No precipitation to report. Feels like 75°.

Today temperatures will be in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 0%. Dew point temperatures in the low 70s. Humid. Skies will be mostly clear.

Tonight temperature will be in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 3%. Dew point temperature in the upper 60s. Humid. Skies will be mostly clear.

Tuesday temperatures will be in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30%. Dew point temperature in the low 70s. Humid. Skies will be partly cloudy.

Tuesday night temperatures in the low 70s. Chance of rain 43%. Dew point temperatures in the upper 60s. Humid. Skies will shift from partly cloudy to mostly cloudy by 4 a.m. in the morning on Wednesday.

Wednesday temperatures in the low 80s. Chance of rain 69%. Skies will be mostly cloudy to cloudy. Dew point temperature will be in the upper 60s. Humid.

Then comes Wednesday night. Temperatures in the low 50s. National Weather Service shows a temperature of 54 degrees. Chance of rain 59%. Dew point temperature will drop to the upper 50s by 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Skies will be mostly cloudy to cloudy.

Convective Outlook shows a chance of non severe thunderstorms over the next 2 days. On Wednesday Jackson County has a marginal chance of severe weather.

Models show current start time for Tuesday night into Wednesday morning how about 10 p.m. and continuing into the morning hours with an in time of about 5 or 6 a.m. in the morning Wednesday. Wednesday evening show scattered storms rolling into our area around 7 p.m. Wednesday night. We’ll know more as we progress through the week.