Snowfall for Kansas

It's hard to imagine this sort of thing happening when most of us today (Tuesday) and tomorrow spend time outdoors enjoying some 80° weather. The storm coming into Kansas on Wednesday is about as strong as the bomb cyclone that hit last month with winds above 60 mph.

How much snow - strong storms possible too:

We will have to be on the lookout for some strong storms north of I-70 Wednesday evening. Some quarter size hail and wind gusts to 60+ aren't out of the question. Once they get going, they should move northeast and get up into Nebraska quickly. We know Nebraska doesn't need rain right now, but it's pretty likely they'll have some storms too Wednesday night.

Snow will begin falling by early Thursday. Wind gusts above 60 mph look possible in far northwest Kansas, so this will be a blizzard and the accumulation of snow will be significant. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this storm doesn't set some late snowfall records for Goodland. We will be checking on that today. I think FAR northwest Kansas, including Goodland, St Francis, and Atwood might get 7-10" of snow. That's unusual for mid April. The amounts will drop off quickly as you go south and east.

Concerns for a late week frost:

With temperatures turning so chilly, we will have to be watching the lows Friday AND Saturday mornings. Right now, my biggest concern is Saturday morning when the winds die down. There's a good chance we will have some 20s and low 30s (unless the clouds rush in to help out, which is possible) - The image shown below is what the models are suggesting, but actual low temperatures could be a bit colder for most areas.

Snow for southern Kansas this weekend??

Yep - we are now looking at a rain/snow mix for southern Kansas this weekend. I've seen these setups before where temperatures (mainly at night) dip just low enough to get some big, wet flakes and the snow covers up part of the grass. That's what I think may happen Saturday night or early Sunday. It's too early to figure out what we might get, but it would be gone in a hurry Sunday because April snows don't last long around here and this one would likely melt before noon Sunday. Crazy stuff for sure though.