Interesting Weekend!

Remnants of Erin dumped HUGE amounts of rain on Oklahoma this weekend. Some areas had over 11 inches of rain and there were several water rescues caught on video from TV stations out of Oklahoma City. A few storms developed in eastern Kansas Saturday and Sunday, but few places had any measurable rainfall.

This will be an active week of weather for the central US and Mexico. First, Dean continues to maintain itself down in the tropics. Warm water continues to feed the monster hurricane and it will most likely come onshore in Mexico by Thursday. When hurricanes reach the intensity that Dean has achieved, there will be some fluctuations in strength as the eye wall breaks down and then reforms. The strongest winds are found in the right front quadrant of the hurricane, which happens to be where Jamaica ended up for a short time this weekend. I placed an "x" in the right front quadrant of this particular hurricane.

Our weather will definitely be more active this week as frontal systems get closer to Kansas. Big storms will develop across Colorado, NW Kansas, and into Nebraska over the next few days. Eventually, those storms will push deeper into Kansas later in the week. By the time we reach Thursday and Friday, we should see rain into southcentral Kansas along with some cooler temperatures. The hot weather has definitely dried things out in many areas.

I noticed some of the milo leaves around the area curling a bit in the hot weather, so some rain and cooler weather would help out there. Farmers that planted dry land corn this summer have a big smile on their face. There could be some pretty big yields in Kansas, thanks to some early summer rains, but I guess we won't know until it's harvested later on. Have a great week.