The peak of severe weather season has come and gone and now we are sliding into the occasional summertime hail/wind threat that will be back. Upper level winds weaken during summer, so the frequency of events is much more sparse than in the months of April and May.
The actual number may change pending final analysis of the events, but safe to say for Kansas it was another record low number for the month of May. Severe weather chances begin spreading farther north and west out on the High Plains.
Just a week into June, and the average temperatures are looking like this:
The northern Plains has had a tremendous blast of intense summer heat. Several records were broken last week and although the air has cooled down some, there's still a good deal of warmth north of Kansas. The southern Plains have been in rain and enough clouds to really slow the warm up down.
Wheat harvest is about to start, so according to Murphy's law, it should start raining again soon. Right? If harvest drags out late into June, there is a strong likelihood of a combine vs rain/mud battle. And we are going to cool the temperatures down too for the second half of the month. While that might be the best news some of you take in all day or week, it's going to have farmers anxious and maybe trying to harvest in road gear.
Late June temperatures:
I've had some questions about the "ring of fire" coming up Thursday morning. Bottom line for Kansas, we won't be able to see it, no matter what the sky conditions. We are just to far south and west and it's over when the sun emerges over the eastern horizon. This is NOT the same as a total solar eclipse. The moon doesn't completely cover the disk of the sun, so there is some sunlight that shines around the moon during the max eclipse, which is setting up for Canada, but not in the US.
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