Winter Weather

The First Weekend of Spring in St. Louis Will Be Ruined By Snow

Spring is officially here! And with it comes forecasts of five to eight inches of snow in St. Louis. So instead of giving you Daily RFT's planned ode to spring in St. Louis, we direct you you dear readers to our 20 Reasons to Love Winter in St. Louis, because apparently Mother Nature is not ready ... More >>

Snow Day: Best Storm Videos in St. Louis

Despite a lot of early morning skepticism yesterday that the Snow Day shutdown wasn't justified, the storm hit St. Louis pretty hard, giving the brave folks who went to work quite a snowy, sleety mess to drive through on the way home. It also gave tweeters a chance to share footage of the snowfall ... More >>

Snow Storm: Top Tweets From Missourians Who Think Everyone Is Overreacting

Schools are closed, City Hall is dark, flights are cancelled -- and there don't seem to be flurries yet this morning. Is this going to be legit? We take weather predictions quite seriously here in Missouri and inaccurate forecasts make people very, very upset. For your amusement, we've collected ... More >>

FOX 2 Weatherman Chris Higgins Argues with Post-Dispatch Weather Grouch, Joe Strauss

Yesterday, we wrote about a somewhat bizarre "open letter" rant from FOX 2 Meteorologist Chris Higgins on his Facebook page, directed at his "haters" who have apparently been attacking him for not accurately predicting the snow storm over the weekend. It included some gem quotes like, "That is an as ... More >>

Think It's Cold Today? At Least the River's Still Flowing

Yes, it's cold this week, the coldest it's been here in St. Louis in several years. What's particularly galling is that this cold is not as lovely and refreshing as we thought it would be last summer when the thermometer crawled up to 108. Remember that? Back in the good old days before global warm ... More >>

Break Out the Beer

Projected High Today, 68 Degrees, Is Total Bullshit

​The National Weather Service predicts a high temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit today, which would set a new record high for January 30 in St. Louis (the current record is 67 degrees, set in 1884.) This is complete bullshit.All weekend long, people were gushing about the beautiful weather while ... More >>

How Chicago Sees St. Louis: A Nipple On One Gigantic Bosom

WGN this morning aired a segment on subliminal messages in weather reports. The image below was allegedly used to illustrate an ice storm that hit the Midwest a year or two ago.  ​Groused a reader today at Chicagoist, which also linked to the image, "As usual, all the best [weather] is south ... More >>

St. Louis Sees First Snow of Winter

​It's official. December 27 is the fist snowfall of the 2011-2012 winter. St. Louis picked up about an inch of extremely wet, white-stuff overnight. It won't last long. Temperatures are expected to reach the mid-40s today under partly sunny skies and get even warmer later in the week. No more snow ... More >>

Holiday Cocktail Countdown #4: Milagro's Spicy Chocolate Martini

Like any red-blooded American, Gut Check uses liquid medication to cope with holiday stress. Not only does a good winter cocktail make it possible to tolerate family members, say, inquiring about your procreation plans, it helps keep you warm, too. From now until Christmas, we're calling upon local ... More >>

Christmas at the Zoo

Hot Snow

Drag Your Ass Out Tonight

The Nice Age

Delta Flight Skids in Snow Saturday; Plane Carried Kit Bond and Adam Wainwright

The spring storm that dropped more than four inches of snow Saturday at St. Louis Lambert Field is being blamed for a frightful landing that day. A Delta flight from Atlanta carrying 142 passengers touched down around 5:30 p.m. and briefly skidded off the runway before the pilot was able to correct ... More >>

Tonight's the Night! Acro-Cat Circus Returns!

Did you put it on your calendar? Is your BlackBerry beeping? Because tonight's the night! Last month's snowpocalypse saw plenty of things snowed out, and the Amazing Acro-Cat Circus was among them. Their performance at 2720 Cherokee, presented by Cranky Yellow, was canceled, but their rescheduled an ... More >>

Why Your City Street Continues to Resemble a Swiss Glacier

The intersection of Chouteau and Vandeventer as photographed this morning.​Daily RFT has fielded several inquiries from readers wanting to know why their St. Louis street remains snow-packed and why the city isn't doing anything about it. Yesterday we got on the blower with City Hall. Here's the d ... More >>

Boston Mayor of 1940s Offers Solution to St. Louis' Ice Problem

Boston's mayor appealed for M.I.T. engineers to develop flame throwers to help save the city from record snowfall.​Francis Slay is back in town. The St. Louis mayor arrived home Wednesday via Amtrak after his flight from California was canceled Monday due to Midwest snow storms.  One of the m ... More >>

Snowed-Out Feline Absurdity Returns to the Lou

Certainly the most unfortunate casualty of the Giant Storm that Wasn't was Tuesday's scheduled performance of the Amazing Acro-Cat Circus. A troupe of house cats trained by Chicago's Amazing Animals by Samantha, the cats performed amazing feats and rocked out Monday night at 2720 Cherokee, sponsored ... More >>

Tonight's Stanley Clarke and Hiromi Show Postponed; Residency to Start Tomorrow

Although the weather is (very slowly) starting to clear out a bit, the reverberations from the winter storm gripping most of the eastern half of the country continue. Tonight's Stanley Clarke and Hiromi shows at Jazz at the Bistro are cancelled due to "flight cancellations coming into Lambert Airpor ... More >>

St. Louis Region Hit with Snow; Some Areas Receive a Foot of White Stuff

Schools are canceled, and the flakes are still coming down. Here are the most recent snowfall totals from the National Weather Service:​According to the weather service, St. Louis picked up seven inches of snow at Forest Park. In my sliver of south-central St. Louis, I'm seeing about five inches ( ... More >>

Delmar Boulevard Freeze Out

Cleanup on the Bulk Aisle: Somebody overindulged at winter's theater buffet

Hurricane Bells

8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Cold Blood In Kansas City: Snow Plow Driver Shot on the Job

Image Via​There's a reason Kansas City is nicknamed Killa City: our counterparts on Missouri's west side have almost as many shootings as we do-- and that's saying something. But just when the violence starts to seem routine, someone goes and busts a cap in a snow plow driver. Talk about in cold b ... More >>

What a Bunch of Snow-Wimp Crybabies! KSDK Channel 5's Ryan Dean Calls You Out

Quoth KSDK Channel 5's Ryan Dean this morning: "I don't wanna make people here feel bad of course but...."Whoa stop, Ryan. You're probably about to make people feel bad. On television. His point: three to five inches is nothing. [inches of snow] But Daily RFT understands his point. As a schoolboy gr ... More >>

Family Heirlooms

Grow your own!

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 2.5

In today's news: peanut butter.

Why I'm a Print Journalist...

This morning I was again reminded why I choose to toil in the lowly field of print media and not broadcast journalism. Sure, television reporters earn much more money than we lowly newspaper scribes. And, yes, I certainly have the chiseled good looks to be a TV anchor man, or even a Hollywood star l ... More >>

Pole Position

Santa's interests are varied

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Ready, Willing and Abell

Timber!

Chain saws at the ready, AmerenUE confronts the vestiges of the '06 storms.

Ron Sexsmith

Time Being (Ironworks)

Little Plants on the Prairie

Just Because You're Uncomfortable, It Doesn't Mean the Bass Are

'Tis the Season for Tradition

Sidecar

Drink -- then let these guys drive

M83

Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute)

Play (Snow) Ball!

Bring gloves and mittens

Omni-potent

The Science Center's Omnimax Theater offers up four great adventure films (don't forget the Dramamine)

Best Frame Shop

The Framery

Series/Festivals

Week of January 2, 2002

Best TV Weathercaster

Dave Murray