Monday, October 20, 2014

Warm weather pattern & another chance for rain

Pacific system headed for Kansas midweek
We are coming off of a really nice weekend of weather in Kansas. Some of us could use a little more rain and we will have a chance coming up midweek. There's a storm system that is coming in from the Pacific and will arrive Wednesday afternoon/evening. It's not a very strong system and it certainly doesn't have a tremendous amount of  moisture to work with, so the rainfall amounts will likely be under .50" (and may actually end up closer to .25")  We are heading into our dry season, so it's not that much of a surprise with the rain chances getting fewer and fewer.

Rainfall amounts will be very limited this week
Pattern heading into Oct. 24-25. High pressure will allow our temps to get very warm
Overall the pattern looks very warm for another week. The cool, Canadian temperatures are locked up to the north and it's unlikely we will see any significant cool down until next Monday (Oct. 27) And I've taken a few calls wanting to know when we may have our first snowfall. It's still a long ways off as the pattern shows no sign of delivering cold air. No need to find your snow shovel yet.

There will be a partial solar eclipse Thursday afternoon (the entire sun will not be covered). It will begin at 4:37 p.m. and the maximum eclipse will be at 5:44. This is the kind of eclipse that you need special glasses or setup to view because you don't want to be looking directly at the sun. A solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, blocking some of the sunlight. We do have a total solar eclipse coming up August 21, 2017 that will be visible across much of the United States.
This is what the partial eclipse will look like around 5:44 in the evening


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