7-5-18 Central Plains Forecast: A few scattered storms into Friday….drier pattern developing into the next week. N.

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Rain amounts over the past 24 hours were heavy in portions of central Nebraska and northwest Iowa….simply adding insult to injury for areas here that have been very wet.  

Forecast radar throughout the day shows the storms continue to dive south across west-central Kansas this morning…then as the cold front from the north slides south additional widely scattered activity bubbles up along in.  

Forecast radar overnight shows additional scattered storms bubbling up across parts of west-central Kansas along a surface boundary this evening through the overnight.  Given weak wind flow aloft any storms will be very slow moving there and can dump local heavy rainfall here.  These chances will linger here into the day Friday.  The rest of the area should be largely dry for Friday.

Total rainfall through Friday morning tells the story of local areas of heavy rain being possible across western Kansas, along with more hit/miss storms further east today along the cold front.

As mentioned in today’s video, it’s a drier pattern developing over the next 7 days across the region.  Check out the European 7-day rainfall forecast.  GFS model is actually similar.

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Weeks 1 and 2 temperatures from normal:

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