Weekend rain potential and Amazon fire scope

More rain is coming! And it looks like it will be here to impact the weekend forecast. But some areas of Kansas are so dry that you might not care that it's arriving on the weekend.

Next batch - arriving Friday night:

Here's the area with the highest rain chance Friday evening/overnight. It's basically west of a Hays to Pratt line. Eventually, by daybreak Saturday, some of the showers will be coming into central/south central Kansas.

Saturday: Morning showers will be scattered about the area and then another batch of rain should get going into Saturday night.

The arrows above show where the highest rain chances should setup for Saturday evening/night. Will this get far enough east to leave us dry for Sunday? That's what we are looking at now. Total rainfall from the weekend could look like this:

Have you heard about the Amazon fires/smoke:

Mid July

National news is covering the Amazon fires and how bad the smoke is when viewed from space. Just look at this comparison. One image is from mid July when fires were present, but the smoke was minimal.

Now in late August, the smoke is absolutely taking over the air in Brazil. I've labeled where there are clouds and where you can see smoke. The orange dots represent the hot spots as viewed from a particular satellite that crosses this area two times a day. The black wedges shown in the images is just part of the satellite and has nothing to do with the fires. Why there are so many fires down there remains very controversial, but hopefully things get turned around soon. Its reported the Amazon supplies roughly 20% of the world's oxygen.