Rainfall stats & how the chances look this week

Welcome to a new week and how fantastic was the rain over the weekend. Now I know some of you will read this and scoff because you didn't get very much. It's easy to get frustrated but we just have to remember there isn't anything anybody can do to change it.

Here's a map showing the weekend rainfall amounts. There is a legend on the side to help understand the colors.

The current drought started up in late September and early October. Here's what the drought map looked like at that time.

And here's where we are now (keep in mind this does NOT include this weekends rainfall):

Even after you throw in our weekend rainfall, many areas are still 4-7 inches below normal since early fall 2017. Here are some numbers for the major reporting stations. And I did look up Salina too. You don't see it on the graphic, but Salina is 2.84" below since the beginning of October.

So our only shot at some rain this week will likely come Tuesday - early Wednesday. It's NOT the same kind of setup that we had with our weekend storm. This is a system that approaches from the northwest, so it's very unlikely that we will see any decent rain amounts out of it. However, some areas will likely get up to .25", and if you get more than that, you'll be lucky.

And I don't know yet how realistic this will be, but we are seeing hints of possible stormier days into early May. Stay tuned.