It's Official, We Had One Wet October

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_{As I write my blog, I'm looking at all my weather radar links and pondering, "When the heck is all this rain gonna end?"  Right this second, the total for the month is just over 12" of rain in the rain gauge at my home over in the Metro East.  The weather models are all calling for an additional 2" overnight.}    

_{The reason I'm in tune to all this weather information, one I'm a bit of a weather geek and two I am taking Aviation Meteorology this semester at South West Illinois College (SWIC) in Belleville.}

_{Our instructor is Richard Korich. Richard is also one of the fine folks at the 15th Operational Weather Squadron at Scott Air Force Base.   Those outstanding men and women hosted our class for a field trip on Wednesday.}

^{Richard started the evening by providing us an overview of the mission, which includes providing weather briefings to pilots military personnel at all the military installations in the following states: North and South  Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, all of New England and of course the weather info for the President and Air Force One to fly safely.  Man I hope I didn't leave anything out.}

^{We next proceeded to the operations floor which was inundated with computers with all types of weather data.} 

  ^{Master Sergeant Pat Thompson briefed us the duties of each area of the operations floor which is broken into East, Central and West regions.} 

^{Airman First Class Hilton briefed us on the duties of the East region, Airman First Class McCutchan on the Central region and}

^{Technical Sergeant Kelly Lawless on the Western region which was pretty busy giving weather briefings for a blizzard warning in Black Hills of South Dakota.} 

^{A special note, many of these fine men and women have or will see time in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been in harm's way more than once.  I ask that you keep them all in your prayers and remember that they work 24/7, 365 days a year to keep our military mission functioning.}

^{My class and I had a wonderful time and thank each and everyone for their time.}

^{Time for me to check the rain gauge again and make sure the rain stays OUTSIDE.}

^{-Rik Out}