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Good Friday morning. Very heavy storms continue across southeast Kansas this morning. These will gradually move off to the southeast later this morning. Additional light showers moving into eastern Iowa wrapping around an upper-level low.
Rainfall accumulation over the past 24 hours shown below. Excessive rains have fallen across southeast Kansas last night where storms have continued to train and redevelop over the same locations. The area just east of Eureka, KS has picked up 6″ of rain!!! This was way more than any computer model suggested. This takes the wording “locally higher” to a whole new level. 😉
Watch today’s video forecast for more information on the short-term details. Do want to note our system will begin working into the western Plains Saturday afternoon/night, bringing the risk for a few severe storms. Details in the graphic below:
A nice shot of cooler, drier air next week, then we look to start heating up late week and towards the following weekend.
High temperatures over the next 4 days: Warming today and Saturday, then cooling west to east Sunday and Monday.
Low temperatures over the next 4 days:
Dewpoints over the next 4 days:
Wind forecast over the next 4 days:
Weeks 1 and 2 temperatures from normal:
Weeks 1 and 2 precipitation from normal:
Weeks 3 and 4 temperature and precipitation outlook: Overall we favor near to warmer than normal temperatures with a signal for above normal rain. Confidence is lower than normal given conflicting long-range signals.
