Test your summer solstice knowledge...

Hot weather is coming for the weekend and that will match up with the official beginning to summer. You can test your summer solstice knowledge right here. I think it's fascinating the difference in day and night for different areas around the Northern Hemisphere. For example, the sun never sets in Barrow, Alaska from May 12th until August 2nd. Can you imagine have 24 hours of daylight, every day, for nearly 2 months? In Minneapolis, MN, they will have 15 hrs and 36 min of daylight. Wichita ends up with more than 14 and a half hours of daylight.

So many farmers have been asking for a stretch of hot, dry weather so the harvest can start and continue to roll. These are the days I remember quite well from growing up on a farm and ranch. Harvest means short, often sleepless nights and long days in the field just trying to get everything to the elevator before rain or hail takes it all out.

The pattern will certainly favor hot and dry weather in the coming days and perhaps over the next week or so. A large, high pressure dome will setup over Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma, which will deflect most storm chances around us and keep the hot weather going. This is the kind of pattern that setup back in 2011 and never budged, It's why we had 40-50 100 degree days and very little rainfall. I don't see that happening this summer. Thank goodness, right?