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… Continue reading Follow the latest weather tweets

Oh, hail: Photos from Wednesday’s storm

This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL. A shift in the weather always leads to weather tweets. (I love ‘em.) Here are a few hail and flood photos from Wednesday’s storms. Riverview shut down #stlwx copyrighted photo St. Louis Post-Dispatch pic.twitter.com/xvmNokdvCt — David Carson (@PDPJ) April 2, 2014 Only in STL – De Smet Jesuit's campus… Continue reading Oh, hail: Photos from Wednesday’s storm