It's January 2, and in the heart of Iowa we just had a thunderstorm.

[Skidmore]

Plenty of boom,crashes, and flashes and a torrent of rain. We should be getting snow now, folks.

[Kindigger]

1. Yet another year

when the trees will get confused and start to bud, only to be thrashed by a March ice storm.

Just now hearing thunder down here in the SE corner.

[Skidmore]

2. Sounds like its tracking SE then instead of ending up

in Dubuque area. I am not usually awakened by storms, but we had some real close lightning and some very loud thunder for a while.

[laylah]

3. I am in the QC area

it is raining but no lightening/thunder as of yet. The weather channel web site has

[Skidmore]

5. We're about 30 minutes west of IC/CR area.

Maybe it was an isolated cell or something. We can't even get anything that resembles a local weather report until after the local channels stop feeding CNN at about 6 am.

[HeeBGBz]

4. Weird, isn't it? I'm in southern Missouri

It was 60-something degrees last night at 10 pm. This morning is still very warm, but now its windy. The winds spook me now. Do you get those? Sustained winds blowing through with no apparent cause. The kind of wind that feeds wildfires.

[Skidmore]

6. We get high winds a lot out here on the prairie. Hot ones, cold ones,

wet ones. You name it. Nothing like standing in the middle of a vast spread of land and listening to the wind as it whistles by.

[MadHound]

10. Hey, don't be terribly spooked

I live up in Mid Mo, and was watching the weather last night. Those winds are from a Low pressure front coming through, and they're supposed to be bringing rain today, not fire.

We're supposed to have some high winds today up here also, for the same reason. But at least down there you have the foothills of the Ozarks to break the wind up a bit. I live at the tail end of the Great Plains, and while we have lots of woods and some rolling slopes, the wind is always whipping through up here. One reason that I'm getting a wind turbine in a few years.

But yeah, it is damn warm for this time of the year. But sadly not only is global climate change warming us up, it is also drying us out. Grass fires in OK, something I've never seen in my forty-four years, especially in winter when OK and TX normally have rain, ice and snow falling. Very strange shit going on, and I really fear that such fires will be breaking out in our state in a few years.

But not today, so enjoy the rain! And hey, it is supposed to start getting back to normal towards the end of the week.

[B Calm]

7. 60 degrees in North Western Indiana at 5:30 AM January 2nd

[mandyky]

8. A storm front is moving through St Louiis, MO at 630 ET

With tornado warnings. Here, in Kentucky, we'll probably get some severe weather this afternoon /
evening.

[0007]

9. The AirConditioning units are coming on in West Texas

[Delphinus]

11. Yep,

same here in NE Indiana.

Although I should be grateful after the huge gas bill I just received, I want winter!