Tuesday, 13Feb 2007 -Climate Cocktail: St Louis Recipe
St Louis, which prides itself on its geographical position as "the top of the South, the bottom of the North, the end of the East and the beginning of the West" operates as a stewpot for mixing up weather systems. Here, warm moist air from the sultry mouth of the Mississippi River Delta gets mixed with the crisp refreshment of the Canadian Clipper. St Louis's recipe for the perfect Mardi Gras weather: begin with a madcap rainstorm, sprinkle with sleet, then proceed to freezing rain until everything has an even coating of about one half inch, indulge in micro-hail until the windspeed can blow a pickup truck off the road and then go all out with a white-out blizzard. Voila! See the merry motorists skid gaily around--you don't need skates! Send whole weather system east so the rest of the country can enjoy. Ohio, we love you! New York! It was good enough to play in Peoria and now you're finding our weather system has closed down the town!