Will Irma impact KS & searching for our next rain

We made it to Friday and while the nation watches Irma come ashore this weekend (hopefully weaker than forecast) we will continue to search for our next rain chances. This has been a very long and frustrating stretch without moisture, but we've had so many instances lately where the weather pattern is stuck in neutral. 

Irma track:

The updated track has Irma coming through Florida and eventually (early next week) fading over the eastern third of the US. Irma never gets close enough to Kansas to directly impact our weather, but it does continue to create a block in the pattern so that other storms can't make it to our area. We are sandwiched between a storm on the west coast and Irma getting into the southeast. 

Next rain chances:

Until we can get things moving again in the pattern, we won't see much chance for moisture in the Plains. The earliest we might see storms develop over this area would be next weekend. At that time, we expect active weather to push in from the western US, which should set off some storms in Kansas either Saturday or Sunday. Timing is a little bit in question, and there's some concern that not everyone will get rain, but it's our only chance in the next week.

The second half of September looks much more active for Kansas than what we've had so far. We will be looking into this next week. That SHOULD mean better rain chances coming our way.