Follow the latest weather tweets

This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL.

In St. Louis, weather is a social media event.

Tweets immediately pick up at the first sign of change, whether that’s rain, hail, snow or sun. #STLWX is widely used to tag those tweets. The WX abbreviation can be traced back to the days of the telegraph.

Here’s a feed of the latest tweets tagged #STLWX.

Tweets about “#stlwx”