June comes to a close and we have reached the halfway mark of 2022. We had a big heat wave in the middle of the month (lasted nearly 2 weeks) that was bookended by some rain. As you'll be able to see in the map below, June rain was MUCH more spotty than what we had in May. There's been little reduction in drought over the last month. Far southwest Kansas finally had some good rain, as did areas along and just north of I-70 near Hays, Russell, and Salina. South central Kansas had another decent month with some rain.
As for the 4 major stations we track:
And here's where we are for 2022 on rainfall:
The rain that is expected to hit in the coming days will start north and then spread farther south. Once again, it is a slow moving front that gets about as far south as central Kansas and then comes to a halt. It will retreat back northward by Sunday and take the storm chances out of Kansas by the holiday. Tough to say on how much rain, but the feeling is .50-1" is quite possible, with lighter amounts near the KS/OK state line and maybe not as much across the far west. However, much of the state should get a chance at some rain Friday night-early Saturday.
No major heat wave next week:
The upper level "high" is likely to shift back to the west of the Rockies. As it does, we will have some energy coming off the mountains and down into the Plains. This should bring another round of storms in the forecast midweek. I expect we will have another cool down coming too, but it definitely doesn't look like the 70s that some of us had late in June. That is hard to come by as we get into the hottest part of the year (climatologically speaking).
Have a great day and thanks for spending a few minutes here.
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