Next round of rain... and look at what lies ahead

Hope everyone has a great weekend. The need for rain continues in many areas, but for most of south central and southeast Kansas, sunny skies can't return soon enough. Water rescues and flooding have been reported in the last couple of days and the threat of heavy rains isn't quite over yet.

This evening:
Here's where we are headed. More scattered storms will likely develop over central and southern Kansas. A few of these could be severe with some hail and gusty winds, but severe storms on a widespread scale isn't likely. Some stronger storms are possible into northwest Kansas during the evening, but I'm expecting them to weaken as they move along.

Saturday: The focus will shift to areas along and east of I-135. Some of the scattered storms that pop up will have heavy rains, but we aren't really expecting them to be big hail or wind makers.

We will get some calmer and drier weather into the start of next week. But for your planning purposes, heading into Memorial Day weekend, we will be right back into the threat of rain, storms, and maybe some severe potential. The timing could be an issue for those wanting to get out and camp and do some outdoor stuff. If you look at the setup shown below, that large low pressure on the west coast is expected to move toward the Plains, thus increasing the threat of storms.

Sneak peek into June:
And earlier this week I mentioned the potential of wet weather through June. Well, let me share this with you as we head into the weekend. Wheat harvest gets underway in June and many of us begin our summer vacationing and ramping up our time outside. It looks like we could see some very wet weather setting up across the Plains states. THIS WILL LIKELY MEAN A COOLER SUMMER FOR MANY. I know some of you have been asking for a summer forecast. Well, if we get the kind of rain shown here, we will likely escape any potential of major, prolonged heat waves.