The longest & hottest part of summer is comingde

There's no question, we have had some hot summer days this year and to date, here's where we stand on 100° temperatures in Kansas.

• Dodge City - 7
• Salina - 7
• Goodland - 4
• Wichita - 2

Most of those happened back in mid June as we continued to be in a very dry spell throughout the Plains. Late June, as you might recall, started to see some rain and temperatures backed down. 

Now, as we prepare to enter the last few weeks of July, a heat wave is developing and this may end up being the hottest stretch we will have for the remainder of summer. Most of the big heat this summer has been west of the Rockies. Take a look at what is going to happen. 

Roughly 18,000-20,000 feet above us, a large high pressure will to our west through the middle of the week:

Late week - weekend:
 

This large high pressure centers right up over Kansas. That means, our temperatures will go back above normal and possibly flirt with the century mark for several days. And to go along with it all, there will be almost no rain chance for about 8-10 days. I know there are still some very dry areas across our state that missed the weekend rains (or just didn't get enough). Bottom line is now, we will have to wait until the pattern changes again, which probably won't happen until right at the end of the month. 

 

We shouldn't be completely surprised given that our hottest point of the year is typically July 10-August 5th before the average highs start dropping into fall.

 

 Have a great week. Might be time to put the weather on auto pilot while high pressure slides through.