All long-term trends in temperature and precipitation are controlled by the average flow of jet stream winds thousands of feet above the ground. During summer, a pattern that develops often has those jet stream winds flowing around a center of warmer air aloft, often referred to as an upper level […]
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June 2020 has been slightly warm and drier than the previous two months with a hotter streak ahead. Temperatures will reach into the 90’s today and for the next few days for most of the Ozarks. There will be scattered storm areas continuing today and some hints that a few […]
Back at KOLR-TV, after my role as a meteorologist was “adjusted”, I took up a series called “Ted Keller, The Science Feller”. It was actually an idea suggested by Tom Trtan. Every week, I would pick a different science topic. I was a natural fit with my background in science […]
Welcome to my ongoing series on making apple cider vinegar! My goal has been to access different ways of making this type of vinegar at home. Other parts to this series included using a gallon jug to ferment apple juice into hard cider. This is part of a two-step process […]
UPDATE 6/25 The SAL is in the Gulf of Mexico today. A cool front and upper level winds will have the effect of keeping this feature south of us for another day. Then, some of this dust will spread north into the Ozarks. If it isn’t too think, it will […]
The results are in! In this particular run, adding yeast to my juiced apples came off without a hitch. The other bottle, where I let nature take its course, not so much! This was the first step toward making apple cider vinegar. An anaerobic process in which yeast converted the […]
UPDATE 6/20 The risk today (Saturday) overall is unchanged. Sunday is much the same too except for a slightly larger risk for severe storms in Kansas and Okalahoma. I mentioned Monday below as a possibility for severe weather. The SPC did put the Ozarks in some severe risk for this […]
In this edition of Flashback, a few things changed at KOLR-10. The set is new, taking the place of the glass window view of the newsroom they had when I arrived in 1986. Mike Peters is still there along with new co-anchor Jill Jenson. The “Weather Where You Live” segment […]