Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 5:13PM CST   
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A couple of photos, another cold week ahead
Stuck inside this weekend with a fairly miserable cold, with so far, not much going on weatherwise to get out and see anyway. The current system sweeping through has managed to produce sporadic lightning around the STL region, though nothing worth setting a camera up for. I managed to see a few distant flashes and hear a couple of rumbles of thunder here in New Baden, but nothing else to speak of.
Looking ahead, another major winter storm is in the cards for the Midwest later this week, around the Wednesday-Thursday time frame. Precip type is still in question, but this could be an ice storm, a snowstorm or a combination of the two for St. Louis - with freezing rain, sleet and snow all possible. A big part of the Plains and Midwest will see impacts from this system - so it is one to watch.
And just to keep some content flowing, here are a couple of photos from this past week. This first is a sunset over a passing train in New Baden - shot from the edge of the apartment building property. This has been a fairly common scene at sunset, as trains are frequent on this line. It seems like there is always one going by right as the sun is approaching the horizon. So maybe there will be more of these opportunities in the future.
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This is another common scene around here - large flocks of birds flying in interesting formation patterns.
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That's all for now. Depending on how I'm feeling by mid-week, I may venture out to do some coverage of the winter storm - in which case I'll start a running-updates post.
