Rainfall amounts & a hot week ahead

Here are some 24 hour rainfall amounts from the noisy storms that rolled through Sunday evening/night:

Mt. Hope: 2.32"
Medicine Lodge: 2.13"
Winfield: 1.83"
Newton: 1.82"
Pratt: 1.81"
Goodland: 1.20"
Great Bend: 0.98"
Hutch: 0.89"
Salina: 0.75"
Hill City: 0.71"
Elkhart: 0.67"
Liberal: 0.63"
Russell: 0.59"
Dodge City: 0.59"
Garden City: 0.54"
Hays: 0.52"
Concordia: 0.23"

The radar shows a big swath of western Kansas picked up heavy amounts of rain from both Saturday and the storms Sunday evening.

This week will see a shift from stormy to mainly hot & dry. The pattern changes a bit to allow for highs to get back above normal and many will see the faucet turned off. Most areas east of the Rockies are going to see some very hot weather.