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Good morning bloggers,
Rainfall amounts:
- Platte/Clay county line just southeast of Tiffany Springs, MO: 1.00″
- Kansas City North, MO: 1.00″
- Between Parkville an Weatherby Lake, MO: 0.96″
- I-29 & 64th street, MO: 0.75″
- Independence, MO: 0.74″
- Topeka, KS: 0.70″ (total for the month is now 3.00″)
- South Overland Park, KS: 0.67″
- Grain Valley (southwest), MO: 0.48″
- McLouth, KS: 0.43″
- KCI Airport: 0.32″ (total for the month is now 0.44″)
- West Lenexa, KS: 0.22″
- Garden City/Creighton, MO: 0.20″
- Northwest Lawrence, KS: 0.05″
- Just north of La Cygne, KS: Trace
We finally had some nice thunderstorms Wednesday night. Let us know how much rain you had from this first significant rain of the month. One last band of showers and thunderstorm developed around 4 AM and this will add to a few totals. Unfortunately this rain event and very weak cold front may only be a dent in this major heat wave. Yesterday was the hottest day of 2012 so far, but hotter days may still be ahead of us. Here are the high temperatures from Wednesday:
It was 105° at KCI Airport on June 28th and July 7th. Yesterday’s 106° tied the same high reached on July 18th, as you can see below on the two major heat waves of 2012:
Heat Wave #1 June-July 2012
- Day 1, June 27: 102°
- Day 2, June 28: 105°
- Day 3, June 29: 102°
- Day 4, June 30: 101°
- Day 5, July 1: 99°
- Day 6, July 2: 97°
- Day 7, Today: 100°
- Day 8, July 4: 102°
- Day 9, July 5: 102°
- Day 10, July 6: 104°
- Day 11, July 7: Near 105°
- On July 8th, the high dropped to 87° with clouds over KCI Airport, it was still in the lower 90s in most locations, but still a break for a few days.
Heat Wave #2 July 14-?
- Day 1, July 14: 97°
- Day 2, July 15: 98°
- Day 3, July 16: 97°
- Day 4, July 17: 100°
- Day 5, July 18: 106°
- Day 6, July 19: 103°
- Day 7, July 20: 96°
- Day 8, July 21: 98°
- Day 9, July 22: 103°
- Day 10, Monday: 105°
- Day 11, Tuesday: 103°
- Day 12, Wednesday: 106°
- Day 13, Thursday: It will likely be above 95° again today…
A new front, or perhaps just the real true weak cold front will be organizing north of us today. There will be a slight chance of thunderstorms as this moves through this evening. Ahead of this weak front temperatures will likely zoom back up to near 100 degrees this afternoon if the sky clears, and I think it will clear later this morning. This would mean today will be day 13 of this current major heat wave. So, for today, if the sky clears, and that is the real front way up to our north, it will have to heat up rapidly this afternoon. A weak disturbance is obvious on radar this morning as it spins by just north of Kansas City. We will have subsiding air in the wake of this disturbance causing the clouds to clear.
Forecast challenges:
- Today: Will the sky clear in time for a big jump in temperatures? The clearing line is moving our way and temperatures will likely jump into the 90s, but how high?
- This Weekend: A warm front is forecast to lift northeast of Kansas City by Sunday morning. Will there be any thunderstorms in the viewing area. And, how high will the temperatures get Sunday. The latest NAM model has OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN degrees here. It has been aggressive on the highs, but still how high could it go Sunday?
Thank you for spending a few minutes reading the Action Weather Blog, and thank you for the rainfall totals. We will show some of them on 41 Action News tonight.
Gary
Good morning Gary and weather enthusiasts. It’s been a beautiful morning. Lots of lightning. Rain has stopped and started a few times. Looks like we may have a few hours left. Hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy it!
“We” got squat north of La Cygne. So frustrated. Had a whole 3 minutes of rain!!! Unbelievable. Rain gauge still thirsty for some real rain.
Maybe 2 tenths of rain in st jo. Not worth the humidity.
Checked the rain gauge this morning and it shows a little under 1″ of rain last night.
I’m SE of Tiffany Greens golf course by the Platte/Clay county line and we received 1″ on my gauge. Yesty our thermometer read 107° at 1730hrs.
So much for the 1-inch+ totals that most local stations were calling for. Doubtful that most received much more than a half inch. So frustrating after how promising it last evening.
Good morning Gary and the weather team—we had a pop-thundershower between 4:30-5:00 yesterday as well as the ovenight rain giving us .70 for the 24 hour period and 3.00 for the month of July—July 13–1.20—July 19–1.10—July 26–.70—but we had the two “rogue” thunderstorms that were south and east of Billard Airport so their official amount is way less—ours is closer to Forbes Field’s amount—don’t like to hear about the heat returning! Michael/Berryton/Topeka
McLouth, KS got 0.43″ over night, 0.04″ Wednesday evening and 0.39″ since midnight today. Better than nothing, might have just been enough to save the soybeans.
Only a speck in the rain deficit but .48 in SW Grain Valley, which is better than nothing. Gary, I did notice a couple of other stations having rain in the forcast for the weekend…any hope of some more rain chances that you can see coming?
Jeff,
There is a chance of us getting clipped by the southwest edge of an MCS (Mesoscale Convective System) that is more likely in Iowa. It is something that is on my radar, no pun intended! Thank you for the rainfall total. That is much, much better than a tenth of an inch that it seems you have usually been getting this year.
Gary,Here in Independence I received just under 3/4 of an inch of precep.,yeaaaa.My question is,when was the last time the K.C. metro received a wide area of rain(.5,or>).,kevin
Kevin,
I am not sure. We will check on it later today. I will put you down at 0.74″ (just under 3/4″).
That,s just about right.Thanks
.75 near I-29 & 64th.
G-man: I’ve got a measly 0.22″ in the gauge here in west Lenexa.
NW Lawrence got a whopping 0.05″ .
Received 1.5 inches east side of Salina Kansas
Garden City/Creighton–A hair under the .20 mark. We’ve only had two rains over .5 in the last three months. I guess we need to “pay the preacher” a little more. Or at least figure out what those north of the city have been doing.
~0.62″, just west of bonner springs…
good to see, but not enough to help much.
It has just been a struggle this entire year to get anykind of organized/widespread rain event. We have not had one huge unbroken line of heavy T-storms move through the whole area, like we’ve had in past years. We can only hope, the LRC will weaken enough that maybe Sept and Oct can provide us a chance to catch up on our rain totals before we go into winter.
Gauge shows 0.96 this am. I’m between Parkville and Weatherby Lake. This will help my trees hang in there. Already lost 6 smaller ones that have been in the ground 12 years. Half the leaves on my huge Silver Maple have dried up and fallen. The bamboo looks so much better today!
Gary, where is Tiffany Springs, MO? Were you referring to Tiffany Springs Rd?
Would love totals for specific midtown areas–like Brookside/Waldo. I suspect that I will still have to water my veggies today, depending on the temp, but it is still cloudy so it might rain some more. I don’t care about my lawn and I never waste water on it, but I do have a lot of culinary herbs and vegetables and trees that I water regularly.
Such a frustrating year. The first wave didn’t seem so awful. Now it is starting to wear on me. This day-long break is not enough. I am sick of not being able to do much of anything. It’s depressing. Last summer was so horrible because of the tornado and its aftermath; plus, we had just moved here, and we went back and forth for months, helping loved ones. I was so excited for this summer and thought we’d be able to have fun here in KC. Instead we are stuck inside–the heat, our allergies, ozone alerts (which irritate my asthma) all keep us inside.
My garden is doing okay but that’s because I have a drip irrigation system, and I still have to go out and water the foliage 2-3 times per day because the humidity has been so low. The water bill has been astronomical, and the system I use saves water (not wasteful like sprinklers). My harvests have been smaller than usual. I am grateful that growing food is a hobby and not my job, but still–we usually have a lot of food for preserving and sharing and drying and freezing, and so we eat some of the garden harvests year-round (plus I grow things year-round, too). I doubt I will be able to share with family and neighbors.
I am, like everyone else, hoping for better days soon. But it looks like we will be hoping for a long while.
I suspect you had had same amount,give or take a few one hundredths of an inch,as I had.Radar indicated,last night,they train from your area to mine.,kevin
I certainly hope that .74 total for Indep. is accurate. Was without power starting about 2am this morning. Finally came back on around 6:10. Off long enough for the house to warm up.
Come on Gary, make it rain!
I may have been on the higher end ,judging radar storm totals.Go to NWS/EAX radar ,and loop the storm total.Then you can zoom-in by left clicking.The radar was correct over my local.
The updated drought monitor is out.Not a pretty picture,unless you like bright colors. 3mos.ago,5.67 of Mo.,abnormally dry conditions only,was having any issues with soil moisture. Now the whole state, 100%,is in severe drought.
Well Chillicothe area missed again. Mother nature can be cruel. Glad some areas got some nice rain. Only .20 here. Doesnt matter everything is really past much help. Hoping for some more rain to help keep our trees going. Hopefully we will get some fall rains to fill our ponds and lakes up some and re-charge our ground water. If not we will be in for limited water useage. Tim
Gary, How many days are/were there in the LRC cycle this season?-Kevin
-Correction-
in between cycles
I believe I found my answer;May 18,you said 45days.If it,s not,please respond.
Andrea S-D, I’m so sorry this summer has been such a bummer for you after what you had to go through last summer.. I am hoping next summer is much better! I also live in the Brookside/Waldo area and my rain gauge showed .70… Not sure how accurate that was since the hubby waters all our plants regularly and not sure if he emptied the rain gauge or not after last watering… All I know is we had two pretty decent rounds of rain late last night/early morning- decent compared to what we have been getting which is nada… I left my favorite lawn chair sitting out last night and it rained.. maybe I need to do that on a regular basis lol!! The new pattern can’t set up fast enough for me!
I,ve compiled a list of different days of the CONUS out of random,from 1-1-2012 to 3-25-2012,picking 10 days and comparing thoughs to 45 days ahead to see if the LRC holds water,no pun intended.During that time period the LRC was fairly respectable..I plan on following forward into the cycle at a later day…This is the TUSHCHASER,,Signing off…Have a good day.:)
-correction- The days should say from 1-1-12 to 2-13-12,w/ random intervals,spaced out to 45 days…I m feeling a little spaced out myself..I,M OUT!
@kcdigger……..I reported my rain & temps saying I live SE of Tiffany Greens golf course. Just a typo by Gary….Tiffany Springs, MO USED to be right there on Tiffany Springs Rd between Amity and Childress….went the way of the dodo perhaps 50 years ago.
Gary,What caused the blocking pattern to collapse across the midwest toward the last half of April? Was That part of the LRC? It seems the blocking also stretched up into So.central Canada.referring from 4-14(tornado outbreak across IA.NB.KS.OK.)to5-29,45days later,When the flow became more zonal W/E across the midwest. It seems that is where the LRC broke down.I,m I correct??,kevin