Good morning bloggers,
Finally! The corn, soybeans, lawns, gardens, weather enthusiasts, had a beneficial and necessary rain. Watching radar last night was somewhat fun for a change, but if you were up just past midnight there was an “it isn’t happening again” moment when the leading edge fell apart in Johnson county. The post frontal bands of rain intensified at that moment and we had some very good rainfall totals as you can see below:
Rainfall amounts:
- Topeka (North), KS: 2.10″
- Bonner Springs, KS: 1.62″
- St. Joseph, MO: 1.54″
- Leavenworth, KS: 1.49″
- South Overland Park, KS: 1.34″
- South Overland Park, KS (Near 143rd & Quivira): 1.20″
- Kansas City North, MO: 1.15″
- Grain Valley, MO: 1.13″
- Raytown, MO: 1.12″
- Gardner, KS: 1.12″
- Creighton, Garden City, MO: 1.10″
- Olathe, KS: 1.08″
- Overland Park, KS (151st & Antioch): 1.05″
- La Cygne, KS: 1.04″
- Liberty, MO: 1.04″
- 4 miles west of Liberty, MO: 0.95″
- KCI Airport, MO: 0.92″
- Ottawa, KS: 0.60″
We have almost no pressure gradient today and the winds have gone calm to a light north breeze. It may be a while before the clouds clear and we need it to get up to within 3 degrees of 87° to continue our streak at 21 days in a row. The sun will gradually come out later this morning into early this afternoon. A huge warming trend is likely Saturday into early Monday before a back door front move through and cools us off a bit around Monday night and Tuesday. We will go over the details on 41 Action News today and tonight as the new data rolls in.
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Have a great Thursday. Thanks for stopping by the Action Weather Blog.
Gary
Previous entry below from midnight:
We are finally getting some wide spread rain with embedded thunderstorms at midnight. It’s the first full day of summer and we need the rain badly. Let us know what you experience and in the morning let us know what your rainfall total. Here is a radar image taken at midnight. You can see the two lines of showers and thunderstorms. We should get some nice rainfall amounts. An inch or more is possible for a few of us.
Have a great night. We finally aren’t watching the thunderstorms just fall apart like the past few events. I will write up a new blog around 8 AM.
Gary
Guess I’ll call it a night, the rain is here in KC North. Should make for some good sleeping if the thunder can keep its volume down to a low roar.
So far, very underwhelming. Light rain in Lenexa and the second wave is looking less and less impressive.
1 and a half inches in st jo
.95 4 miles nw of liberty. Slept right through it!
1.54″ near downtown OP….woo hoo!
1.2″ near 143rd and Quivira — this is great!
1.04 inches up here in Liberty. Now we have drizzle, haven’t seen that all Spring. Great soaking rain, rain didn’t come too fast. Went to bed with only .76 inches with radar showing a quick end to precip. trend. Must of been some good re-development. Great drink for most of the city. Looks like it was widespread.
Gary, yesterday the GFS was spitting out mid-70′s for highs next tuesday and wednesday, little warmer this molrning, but not much.
I see you have comfortable temps early next week, not buying into the big cool down?
Mike,
The GFS has been too cool on it’s high temperatures all year. And, you are right the 06z GFS was much warmer. Let’s see what this morning’s models do. That rain was very, very, nice. I was shocked when I checked my rain gauge this morning and had 1.34″ in there. It just feels great for some reason.
Gary
Ok gary, you won this round this time i was wrong as i was thinking the rain was going to miss and jinx us. I had around 1.15 inches of rain and thanks to lezak i don’t have to drag my sprinkler system untill the weekend or early next week.
Brad
Glad I’m eating crow this morning…1.13 in SW Grain Valley. Even better it was more of a soaking rain vs a gulley washer, the ground just soaked it in!!!
Predicted .77 at 151st and Antioch. Got 1.08. Nice rain.
Won’t do anything for the drought. This just washed the dust off. Need this type of rain every week for the next 2 months. We all know that won’t happen.
Sorry, the truth hurts.
1.49 last night here in Leavenworth!
What a great way for summer to arrive!!
1.12″ of rain here in Raytown…started about 0045, ended about 0400 with the heaviest rainfall occurring around 0220. Happy to get the rain, but sure wish there was a lot more coming.
Month total: 2.45in
Year total: 13.27in
http://www.RaytownWeather.com
1.12 inches in Gardner, KS!!! Finally!!
Any rain totals for Independence?
I really hope this doesn’t hurt the drought…my company needs drought!!! And before all of you people start whining and saying “Oh, but what about the poor farmers”…who cares? It’s not my fault they decided to not get a real job. Maybe during the drought they can take some college courses and learn a marketable skill. I mwan, seriously, if I have to read one more person’s comment complaining about the drought, I will lose my mind. Nobody cares about your little po-dunk farms and lawns. OK? Welcome to the modern, industrialized world. We work in high-rises, not barns. It’s called evolution. And, if our lawn isn’t looking great, you know what we do? We pay for mexicans to make it look nice with the money from the job that our college education afforded us. Now, how bout them Royals! Enjoy.
mwan = mean…still, point stands.
pathetic…..truly a pathetic post. Did you post this to cause a fight?
How’s your wife and my kids? Nah, seriously…I want to kiss you right now and make you feel all warm inside.
See the message I left for mukustink…the same applies to you. This board was much better off before you got here.
I have been hear along time…..just quiet. I might go quiet again……I can tell you one thing Austin, you need to go back to school and learn about food supply/demand. I have no problem dealing with stupid people, in fact its easy. When dealing with ignorant rubes one tends to get frustrated. You said your comment this morning to cause a fire, its obvious. Please go back to school.
Look, I said what I said because it is the truth, and someone needed to say it finally. Do I really care if a drought means I have pay a little more for food? NOT AT ALL! Do I care if a drought means that certain fruits and vegetables might not be available? NOT AT ALL! You people need to realize that it is not 1970 anymore, and society has evolved to the point where food is readily available no matter what the conditions, and if you have done the smart thing (gone to college, earned a high-paying job), then you really will never be affected by a drought. Now, while I’m “going back to school” (i.e. sleeping with your wife, mother and sister all at the same time), you can take some online courses and try to get your GED.
Careful Austin, careful. I did go to college. We are not gonna run out of food, prices will just go higher. If I cant eat apples I could care less, corn well I just need to water my garden. Going to college does not earn you a high paying job. You dont own anything. Your boss can come into your office and fire you today for typing on this blog. You are a menial in the corporate world. Buy somthing, take a risk owning a business then come on here a preach. Please pay your parents back all the money they spent on your “higher” education. Dont take shots at family members, its easy to do that from a computer Austin. Next year we might have a catasrophic ice storm. While you are cuddled in your high rise in your ambercrombie sweater,freezing,unable to go eat on the plaza. I will be out spreading salt in your high rises parking lot. Once that is done I will cut up the trees that fell around town. All the while my family will be warm at home by the wood stove, burning wood that I cut the winter before. You choose your lifestyle I will choose mine.
Exactly, you will be spreading salt on the roads while I am comfortably inside. Enjoy your lot in life.
The funny thing is, my boss agrees with me. We were actually just telling farming jokes while he read my posts on this blog.
Two farmers are sitting on their front porch when one of them notices his friends dog licking its balls.
“I sure wish I could do that.”, the first farmer says.
“You might wanna give him a treat first.”, says the other farmer.
Austin, without the farmers, who would grow the food? or would you rather eat the synthetic crap college folks invent of which, is one of the reasons cancer is at an all time high.
Listen, you have a right to your opinion however, you make us college educated business folks sound a little full of themselves.
This country was built on the backs of hard working people and that includes farmers.
Lastly, food supply would not always be readily available without farms/farmers…Do you really think food comes from a magical place?
I think mutual respect for all trades needs to be the tone here. Ive known alot of lazy farmers and alot od really ignorant college educated folks.
Austin, listen carefully. Go to your medicine cabinet and look for the bottle labeled Thorazine or Clozaril. Follow the the label directions carefully. Remember you have to take it every day.. Thanks
Gary good job on the forecast! You guys nailed this one for sure. I’m afraid the rain is just a dent in our drought situation. Like Theo said it is a drop in the bucket at this point. We need more rain but it looks like this was it for a while I’m afraid. Time to have meetings all day
. I hate meetings especially when I have to hold them.
1.00 inches exactly at my house in KC North between NKC and Gladstone. Around the area, the average of KCI (0.92), downtown airport (1.07) and JoCo Executive (1.18) equals 1.06 inches. Very nice.
1.04 inches in La Cygne.
Garden City/Creighton–1.1″ Looks like everyone got about the same amount. I was amazed that we didn’t get left out as we have for most of the spring storms. Doesn’t look like any runoff. The ground was just that dry.
1.62″ west of Bonner Springs as of 7:30… greatly needed!
Only .60″ at our farm east of Ottawa. Happy with that, as the storms looked like they were falling apart the closer they got to us.
2.1″ in north Topeka. Very, very happy to have the rain. Thanks, Gary, for all your work with the blog.
1.0 ” exactly at 92nd Terrace and Holmes Road in South Kansas City. Gary you are the man and the best dressed weatherman in the entire country!
As for Austin_83… get a clue, get a life, go away…
Wait a minute…92nd & Holmes? Forget droughts…you need to worry about drive-by’s, my friend.
Olathe at 131st & Mur-Len Rd has 1.08 inches. Now we get to experience this moisture bake itself into the atmosphere. Can we say 70 degree+ dew points?
1.82 inches just south of St. Joseph. I am thrilled because this will help out the garden and nothing like mother nature’s rain instead of dragging the hoses. I think it will do wonders for the corn and soybeans in my area too as well as some of the pastures that cattle are feeding on. Hopefully we get at lease one more decent rain before the 4th so we don’t have many grass fires.
Sorry Austin, the people that rely on rains are very happy.
I am not sure you should make blanket statements about farmers not having gone to college. Farming is quite a science now and has really changes over the last 30 or 40 years….
Quite a science? You know what is quite a science? Bio-molecular chemistry. That is a science. Not putting a seed in the ground and pouring water on it while your giant wife bakes in the hot sun. Check your spelling, by the way, you moron.
The maturity level on this blog is astounding. Same stuff different day. Where have all the good, informative bloggers gone? There are still a select few left, but it seems like the majority of people on this blog are 10-17 years old… Come on people there is just no need for all the b.s.
McCabe58 and everyone else,
There are a few of you breaking the rules of the blog this morning. Let’s have no more personal attacks/discussion about each other’s lives, etc. Let’s keep the conversation to weather oriented topics please.
Gary
Gary, you need to start deleting posts and also blocking/deleting accounts. The trolls have had plenty of warning and know the rules, so warning them again won’t help. Don’t make this complicated, or over-think it; just start deleting.
Gary
I have lost all respect for you. McCabe58 isnt the problem yet you called him out. Have you even read the blog comments today or the last couple of days?
Why do you keep allowing this to happen, just delete the damn posts and block the users. Enough already.
Yes, Gary is trying to be nice and fair, but that doesn’t work with internet trolls.
I’m sure the fact that an unknown blogger has lost respect for the most popular weatherman in the city is really going to keep him up at night. Try again.
As for you, R-Dub, I completely agree.
Gary, Happy for the people west of Chillicothe. We only got .57″ of rain total. Glad to get it but its a drop in the bucket. Very dry in our area. It will take several of inches of rain to break the drought in our area. Time will tell but mother nature is really taking a toll in our area. Tim
austin_83…You know what? I guarantee that I have a better job and make more money than you, and I still choose not to be mean, selfish and classless like you. I know people like you and I feel sorry for the lonely existence you lead.
Thanks!
Let’s put that to the test…I am a VP of product development for a large, national corporation and make $274,150 per year after incentive (I didn’t get my raise this year…company cutbacks).
Pinocchio (IT: [piˈnɔkkjo]; UK: /pɪˈnəʊkiəʊ/;[1] US: /pɪˈnoʊkioʊ/) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamed of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio is often a term used to describe an individual who is prone to telling lies, fabricating stories and exaggerating or creating tall tales for various reasons.
and for all your success and wealth you you come on here and act like an ignorant fool. that’s rich, dude, really rich.
look into ‘them’ you mean.
No, I’m speaking about the concept as a whole. So, “it” is the correct terminology here. Have a great day, rooster breath.
Austin_83,
You’re on a roll today buddy. Why all the hate with the comments about family members. Is that really needed? Your opinions are welcomed, but lose credibility with the garbage talk. If you make as much as you say you do, that’s great! Congrats to you, but posting the way you do doesn’t really back that up. I’m not saying it isn’t true, but a man making that kind of money has to be well respected to earn that much coin. Do you talk like this face to face with strangers? I wouldn’t think so. I would also hope not.
Just asking you to clean it up a bit, please.
Have a good day!!
Will do…enjoy being a coward that would never face up.
It’s certainly clear that the salary is a lie…if not, care to prove? All talk right now.
I’ll be at Nebraska Furniture Mart tonight around 8PM looking at buying TV’s. I’ll be wearing a white dress shirt, gold tie, black dress pants, and gators. Feel free to stop by. I would enjoy the debate.
Austin I wasn’t going to respond but I couldn’t resist after reading all of your pathetic remarks. I really doubt if you could manage a farm if you tried. Its not the same as it used to be, and you would be surprised at how high tech it is now. I also know a lot of farmers that these last few years would be taking a big pay cut if they only made what you do. I don’t know why I just wasted my time, but nothing better to do I guess.
My rain gauge had 1.5″ in it in Shawnee 1 mile west of I-35. My truck was parked close to it so there may have been some splattering…
Funny reading these comments. I would think Gary or the monitor would delete and block some.
Is there anyone on here that really believes this Austin kid is what he says he is? It’s so easy to hide behind a monitor and a keyboard and play act……
Oh, and BTW, planting a seed and farming IS bio-molecular chemistry and most farmers are experts at it. That’s what leads me to think the kid is a fake.
It constantly amazes me how easy it is to manipulate you people. This has been a VERY fun morning.
it constantly amazes me at how juvenile some people can get.
if you like dead people, go for it.
I guess that’s why she didn’t move a lot
Calm down everyone or lezak ill remove you mean and rude bloggers from this blog, this is only here for people that love to talk about th3 weather and who loves weather. Not for rude and mean bloggers who shoot their mouths off with crazyi hurtful talkitive word. So calm down anid be kind to one another and we can get along with the rest of our natual lives. Thank you.
Brad
Whatever mike. You know what i ment
Brad
Weatherman Brad I take it that college is not going well for you. Have you had any writing classes, and if so, did you pass?
I must have been in the sweet spot. 2.9 inches at my house in Paola
Yes muku i did take some writing classes and passed them all thanks for the concern, its just that i got a tablet and i am getting used to the on screen keyboard, so sorry for the mixups of what i did before
Brad
Gary, I implore you to please do some housecleaning around here, even if you have to shut the blog down for a few days to clean up the mess while the weather is quiet. The insulting and derogatory comments have gotten completely out of hand. You should implement and execute with extreme prejudice a “zero tolerance” policy and immediately delete the account of anyone who personally attacks you or another blogger. Then, you should carefully vet new applications to prevent old trolls with new handles from poisoning the dialogue here. If some manage to get through they need to be deleted immediately. A civilized debate requires a civilized atmosphere.
And I implore you to stop having your way with cattle. Dude, not cool. Farmers need those things for something.
Exactly Seds, but unfortunately Gary either doesn’t care enough to act or does not have the power to force his IT department to act. I’m quite certain it is easy to delete entries, but Gary shouldn’t have to do that everyday. I’m also certain it is easy to delete accounts and/or require a verification process that would prevent the constant trolling from future accounts. Apparently NBC does not care about this blog because if they did they would have acted long ago, before it was down to just a handful of names I recognize from the distant past.
I don’t know which gargoyle in the picture is you, but either way, it is horrifying. Please change it.
Pinocchio, please cut out the personal shots. I must assume you draw pleasure from all of this. This is way outta hand, are you tushy by chance? He was on one hell of a roll the other day. Stinky is to respectful to spew the nonsense you have been lately.
Hey, I know you! You were on that offender registry that got passed around my city. How’s it going!
I’ll bet you saw it as you were registering. I think it’s nice that you put your IQ in your screen name. It lets us know through what lens to view your posts.
Pretty much everyone is in a moderate drought now with western portions of the metro in a severe drought. Areas of extreme are growing in SW KS and SE MO.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/?n=drought
austin, muku, and tush are all the same loser. highschool kid that cant get a girlfriend.
RRED95. I am not Austin nor am I Tush. Why the hell do you think I am one of those people? How do we know your not Austin or Tush. Really if you don’t know what the hell your talking about then keep your keyboard shut!
Now I get out of meeting with morons I mean employee’s today and this is what I see. I give Gary and the team a compliment for nailing the forecast and this is what happens.
For all of you who are screaming to delete this and that. You must remember that this is a news organization and censorship of any kind can’t be tolerated. It’s easy to skip past the way off the mark comments. It’s an easy concept I promise you. YOU SKIP PAST THE GARBAGE AND DON”T RESPOND. It’s real easy to do. Austin is having a major melt down and by all you getting your keyboards in nots just fuels the fire. For all of you who claim to be so civil and smart I’m surprised you haven’t figured it out yet. Have a great weekend.
Wait, how did I break any blog rule? Lol seriously Gary? How about you worry about the people talking crap on YOU! You obviously must have missed what tush said the other day about you. Anyways, yes let’s keep it weather related. But like rdub said you should really start blocking ip addresses.
OK, fine. You got me. I am mukustink.
No, STinky has more respect then you! Austin the Tushchaser
WOW!How can ANYBODY compare me to ASS-TON..REALLY!!!His fingers are glued to the keyboard from all that Cum thats drooling out of his mouth. He ,s a pathological liar,and the rest of you are WHINERS! You,ve seen my videos I,ve posted.I,m the REAL THING.His Mother so poor ,she has to hand job truckers to pay his meds. It seems buisness hasn,t been good
Tush I didn’t mean to group you in with mental Auston. Poor word phrase on my part. I get tired of people thinking people are somebody else. I get tired of being called Ed. It’s ridiculous.
On a brighter note how was your date with Farm Girl? I agree about dobber. I think he is really Mowermike. Wow I just did it. How ridiculous.
I understand.If the Wanker “called me” a different name,The other douchebags would also. I,m out(for the night):)
Pin dropping……..
And your …just an idiot
Sure is a shame that we finally had somethin positive to talk about, yet this bs has dominated the conversation! Anyone wanna give there thoughts on the remainder of June?
With lezaks forecast high of 102 degrees on sunday i am expecting an issuance of a heat advisory for kc this weekend. I think heat index readings will be between 105-110 degrees with the 102 degrees temp on sunday.
Brad
So that expected tropical cyclone in the gulf, is there a chance that could bring some rain here eventually?
.93″ two miles South of Reno. How did the Killdeer bird hold up in the storm Gary?
Lot of folks violating the user agreement today.
Sktlar.
We would have to watch it and see if it becomes tropical storm debby, right now it not for sure on what it is going to do yet. The NHC has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical storm or a tropical depresson.
Brad