Rain chances this week

It's beginning to look, feel, and sound a lot like July. (The Christmas song pops into my head as I write this), but seriously, if you didn't know any better, looking at the 10 day you might think it's July or August already.

Last year, June ended up like this:

• 15 days with 90s
• 15 days with 80s
• 4.58" of rain in Wichita, 4.44" for Goodland, 1.69" in Salina, and 3.12" for Dodge City

There is at least one, maybe two, rain chances this week:

A little system will slide out of the Rockies and bring some thunderstorms to Nebraska and eastern Colorado Wednesday late in the evening. Then storms are expected to slide southeast into Kansas by early Thursday. Our Future Track has been hinting at this, but other models have been showing it now for 3-4 days.

And we will see if anything develops for Friday. Once again, we see a chance for storms starting in Nebraska and then drifting south into Kansas. These are not going to be widespread severe weather setups, but gusty winds and some heavy rainfall definitely look possible.

Setup later this week:

Here's the struggle getting rain this week. We are up against a large high pressure system that is currently down in Mexico, but will be meandering toward Kansas later this week. That means the hottest temperatures that we will feel will likely arrive at that time too.