Rainfall amounts & update on Halloween setup

How much rain did you get from this latest storm to track across the Plains? It's been slow enough to move that some areas actually exceeding our original prediction of .25-50". So here are the numbers:

Russell: 0.65"

Wichita: 0.61"

Smith Center: 0.56"

Hutchinson: 0.52"

Jabara Airport: 0.50"

Goodland: 0.49"

Great Bend: 0.45"

Newton: 0.45"

Salina: 0.42"

Hays: 0.37"

Winfield: 0.36"

Dodge City: 0.33"

Hill City: 0.31"

Clay Center: 0.30"

Newton: 0.26"

Pratt: 0.19"

Garden City: 0.17"

Medicine Lodge: 0.16"

Liberal: 0.11"

Into the weekend:

The weather calms down a bit into the weekend. We will have to deal with strong winds on Sunday, but that's about the biggest nuisance we will have ahead of us. 

Developing Halloween setup:

We continue to watch and see how the pattern will evolve going into Halloween. Our 10 day forecast has been showing some rain arriving on the 31st, which would complicate trick-or-treating a bit. However, given some recent trends coming in this morning, we might see the rain pass south and east of Kansas. We know a large system will develop west of the Continental Divide, but if it doesn't organize in time, the moisture will go east. 

What we should be prepared for is a return to colder than normal temperatures heading into November! 

We've been anticipating this for awhile, and it looks to be arriving in about a week. So even if we dodge the moisture, we won't be missing the colder air filtering south soon.