Weather, Pitch

Gary Lezak predicts the effects of climate change on KC

Jonathan Bender — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:00:51 -0600

Last night on KSHB Channel 41, meteorologist Gary Lezak didn't just talk about the climate. He talked about climate change.…

Olathe man threatens utility worker with a baseball bat; pays bill

Ben Palosaari — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:29:41 -0500

Two unpleasant things about summer: sweating through your clothes and paying high utility bills to run the air conditioner. KCTV-5 reports that one Olathe man decided that he didn't want to be sweaty and uncomfortable or pay his utility bill.…

Kansas City-area cooling centers open; here's where to go

Ben Palosaari — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:22:47 -0500

On Monday, it got all the way up to 100 degrees in the late afternoon. And it's going to be miserably hot for a few days.…

Without a snowstorm, Kansas City is getting 'Weather Fever'

Jonathan Bender — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:09:00 -0600

The beat-up pickup brakes sharply as the twister comes into focus at the end of a dirt road. The driver briefly touches a creased picture of two dogs, takes a deep breath, and prepares to gun the engine and aim for the very eye of the storm.…

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Salvation Army locations serving as cooling centers

Ben Palosaari — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:58:08 -0500

All eight Kansas City-area Salvation Army locations will be serving as cooling centers as long as the city is under an excessive heat warning. The locations are:

Each community center will be open from at least 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Tornado-ravaged Joplin confronts new scourge: fungus

David Martin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:06:16 -0500

They survived the tornado but not the fungus it left behind.

Health officials in Joplin attribute three or four deaths to zygomycosis, a rapidly spreading and often fatal fungal infection.…
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Kansas City opens cooling centers, offers free swimming hours so you won't die

Ben Palosaari — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:16:19 -0500

One of the less-than-great parts about living in Kansas City is the godawful summer heat. It's muggy, it's miserable and it can be deadly.…
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Death toll from Joplin tornado now at 141; new storm-chaser video shows tornado and aftermath (video)

Justin Kendall — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:32:54 -0500

Storm chasers Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski have new video of not only the mile-wide EF5 tornado that ripped through Joplin but also the aftermath (TornadoAlleyVideo via Heycameraman). It's not for the fainthearted.…
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The Missouri River is gonna rise (this graph even says so)

Justin Kendall — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:53:27 -0500

The Missouri River is set to crest Saturday morning -- check out this awesome graph for the details. And for more info, go here.…
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Claire McCaskill's surreal photos of the Joplin tornado's aftermath

Ben Palosaari — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:07:56 -0500

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill toured the wreckage of Joplin on Tuesday and took these stunning photos. You can see the full gallery with many more pictures on McCaskill's Flickr page (and a few more after the jump).…
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Video of tornado hitting Sedalia, Missouri, on Wednesday

Justin Kendall — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:50:28 -0500

This video was shot Wednesday of a tornado heading straight for the Sutherlands in Sedalia, Missouri. The Star reported that the tornado was either "a high EF1 or a low EF2."…
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Here's a look at the storm from the roof of The Pitch

Justin Kendall — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:39:54 -0500

Pitch IT wizard Matt Spencer snapped these photos from the roof of our office at 17th Street and Main during this morning's storm. Spencer braved the storm while the rest of us hid in the basement and called dibs on the fluorescent lights and two-by-fours as weapons for our post-tornado world (true story).…
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Skeletor brings you the morning weather report

Justin Kendall — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:00:00 -0600

Broadway is dead! Dead!…
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Snowtorious BIG update: The snow is coming from inside the house!

Ben Palosaari — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:30:00 -0600

How bad is the weather out there? Awful.…
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Lactose-based products hoarded in advance of blizzard

David Martin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:00:00 -0600

Fearful of the blizzard's potential to cripple their cereal preparation, area residents plundered supermarket dairy cases. The Hy-Vee in Raytown reported a reduced stock at 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday.

Kansas City firefighters were shopping for groceries at the supermarket along with residents who waited until the storm's arrival to obtain adequate supplies of animal flesh and bananas.…
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SnowaMania III has begun, and it's only going to get worse

Justin Kendall — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:00:00 -0600

Stay home, if you can. That message keeps coming out of my TV.…
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Air conditioning hater Stan Cox should shut up this week

Ben Palosaari — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:00:00 -0500

It's predicted that this will be our hottest week of the year, and that is so not the time to listen to Stan Cox, America's leading anti-air-conditioning advocate espousing his views to Steve Kraske on KCUR. He's been all over the

media pimping his new book Losing

Our Cool: Uncomfortable facts about our Air-Conditioned World,

and, in an ideal world, yes, Cox should have his way.…
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