Pies & Thunderheads Signal Autumn's Arrival!

The Lafayette Christian School pies go on sale Thursday and Friday off of Brown Street. There will be 7,000 of some of the tastiest apple pies you will ever taste. This is an autumn tradition in Lafayette. You heat these pies up in the oven and it keeps you nice and warm on crisp fall nights. You can see one of the pies brought by our station last night and no, it did not last too long! Hopefully you do get a chance to taste these Lafayette delicacies.

Stop the presses, first the pies and then the thunderheads. Autumn must really be coming! You can see some of the 30,000 foot thunderheads to the distant northwest yesterday evening that brought some rumbles of thunder to our area by late last night. What you are looking at is the leading edge of a autumn air meeting our summer air mass. It is the first of two cold fronts that will be moving through Lafayette with the second stronger front on the way by tonight. Take a look at the big drop off in temperatures behind these fronts. As of 11 p.m. last night the weather you see in Huron was on the way to Lafayette!

You can see the cooler air behind front number one which will cool us down by about 15 degrees today. But it is the secondary cold front that is the real deal. This will move through tonight and bring a chance of chilly showers Wednesday and Thursday with highs only in the 50s. This one-two punch will likely drop temperatures over 50 degrees. Essentially we will be turning the calendar back about 6 months in just 2 days! This graph says it all.

We are used to change, but not like this. Nature is just giving us a big reality check as it tries to even things out after our first heat wave on record in October. I would not be surprised to see snow fly in the upper Midwest so I will make sure to get back to you on this! In the meantime, tonight the front that changes our lives moves through the area with not only a big chill but brisk breezes. No rain is expected like last night and it should be mostly clear. This is great news because we have a meteor shower taking place called the Draconid meteor shower. Look toward the north or the north star. Shooting stars can be expected to pick up as the night goes on. Enjoy the show and send some pictures in if you get a chance.