Storms, cooler weather, and Millie sneaks some more air time

Severe threat for Wednesday

Welcome to Tuesday! The week has started out a little on the stormy side for some, with 60-70 mph winds reported across northwest Kansas Monday evening. Strongest gust I saw reported was 64 mph near Atwood around 10 p.m. Monday. There are some lingering showers and storms around this morning and we should see a few more redevelop late in the afternoon across central and eastern Kansas The severe weather threat for today is very low. There is a higher likelihood of some severe storms coming up Wednesday afternoon. Right now, it looks like the hail and wind producing storms will form along and east of I-135 and north of I-70, but as Wednesday evening continues, the activity that develops to the north will be spreading across the rest of the state. So it should be a busy evening with storms and hopefully, the areas that need rain will get it.

Rain forecast for Tuesday - 7 p.m. Thursday

Showers may linger Thursday morning, but the afternoon dries out and it will be MUCH cooler heading through Thursday and Friday. The weather pattern is likely to shift again at the end of the week, so we will say goodbye to the rain chances and just focus on the temperatures through the weekend and the start of next week.

Weather pattern shift for the weekend into start of next week (October 6)

And how about Millie stealing the show Monday evening at 9 p.m.? Most of the time, she's walking around in the weather center while I'm delivering the weather, but Monday night, she decided to get an up close look at the storms with me. She's only 18 inches tall, but that's high enough to get on camera in our studio. I'm glad she didn't have a tail sticking up or it would've interfered with my storm tracking. I guess now that she's 10 AND a huge celebrity, she can do whatever she wants... and get away with it. Have a good day.

Millie sneaking into my weathercast