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AREA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
530 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2002

IT WAS A COOL AND RAINY DAY ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AND 
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.  RADAR ESTIMATED 4 OR MORE INCHES OF RAIN FELL 
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA.  THE WEATHER SERVICE COOPERATIVE 
STATION AT CANTON LOCK AND DAM 20 ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER REPORTED 
4.26 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING...AND THAT WAS THE HIGHEST AMOUNT 
REPORTED THROUGH 900 AM.

THE COLD FRONT WHICH BROUGHT US ALL OF THIS RAIN IS SLOWLY 
MEANDERING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING.  BEHIND THE 
FRONT...SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION ON 
NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ON SATURDAY.  THIS DRIER AIR WILL GENERALLY 
BRING AN END TO OUR RAIN ACROSS THE AREA.  THERE WILL LIKELY BE SOME 
PATCHY FOG SCATTERED ABOUT THE AREA ON SATURDAY MORNING DUE TO ALL 
OF RAIN WE HAD TODAY.  THIS FOG SHOULD BURN OFF BY MID-MORNING AS 
TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE 80S AGAIN BY AFTERNOON.

CARNEY