June 13, 2026 | Tornado Watch, Sirens, and a Safe Ending At 2:45 PM, a tornado watch was issued for the area. What struck me most was how little the sky seemed to care. Looking up from my backyard, there was almost nothing but blue sky and sunshine. If I hadn’t been following the forecasts…

  June 13, 2026 | A Sky in Transition Location: Raytown and Lee’s Summit, Missouri Today began beneath a restless canopy of gray clouds as Missouri entered a Level 3 of 5 severe weather risk day. Early morning observations revealed a mixture of stratocumulus and developing cloud layers drifting overhead, with occasional patches of blue…

  June 12, 2026 | 12:45 PM CDT Location: Raytown, Missouri Observation: A Sky Washed Clean Sky Conditions Today’s sky could not be more different from yesterday’s. Where towering thunderstorms and rain shafts dominated the horizon just twenty-four hours ago, only a vast expanse of uninterrupted blue remains. The atmosphere appears remarkably clear, with no…

  June 11, 2026 | The Sky Keeps Its Promise 9:35 AM | Raytown, Missouri. A restless morning sky of stratocumulus clouds, gusty winds, and growing instability. Location: Raytown and Lee’s Summit, Missouri The morning began beneath a restless canopy of gray clouds. Wind swept across the landscape as patches of blue appeared and disappeared…

  June 10, 2026 Waiting for the Storm Raytown, Missouri 9:23 AM The forecast promised storms today, so naturally I started my morning by looking up. The sky was covered by a thick gray cloud deck stretching from horizon to horizon. There were no dramatic thunderheads yet, no towering columns of cloud announcing an approaching…

  June 8, 2026 A Sky Full of Questions Lee’s Summit, Missouri 12:50 PM The sky on June 8th wasn’t dramatic in the way a thunderstorm often is. There were no towering white clouds reaching into the upper atmosphere and no striking mammatus formations hanging beneath a storm. Instead, the entire sky felt heavy. A…

  I have always been someone who looks up. Most people hurry from one place to another, barely noticing the sky above them. I find myself stopping for towering cumulus clouds, strange storm formations, mammatus pockets after a storm, and the quiet beauty of an overcast day. This journal is a place to record what…