Snow reports - what's ahead for KS

The latest winter storm is beginning to wind down for Kansas, but not before dumping HUGE amounts of snow in northwest Kansas. Here are some of the amounts:

11" - St Francis (Cheyenne County)
9" - Goodland
6.5" - 13 NW Edson (Sherman County)
4" - Oakley
2.7" - Hays
2.5" - Norton

Wind Gust 63 mph in Dodge City
59 mph gust in Garden City

What's left with the storm: The big winter storm begins to move away later today/early this evening. The back edge of the snow should be along and east of the Flint Hills as we get to 6 p.m. this evening. This storm hasn't had a ton of cold air to work with, so the moisture content of the snow is higher than some of our previous storms this winter. For 10" of snow, one would expect about 1" of liquid moisture.

We will quickly warm up through the next couple of days, so anybody with snow on the ground today will see it melting soon.

Late week storm coming in:
Once again, we see another system approaching the Plains late in the week (likely Friday). Recent trends in the computer models suggest the rain chances are likely to go east of Kansas. AGAIN!! This is very discouraging, but nothing we can do. So many of our storms have come straight in from the WEST, and we need them to come from the SOUTHWEST.

Coming up later this week I'll talk about what happens with our long range pattern heading into early February. Have a good Monday.