Northwest heat wave coming to Kansas?

The record heat wave in the Northwest is bad and records have been falling all over the place. It wasn't a surprise considering the setup with a huge high pressure that pushed farther north. This "heat dome" has been hanging out farther south for a good part of June. One of the things that I found remarkable is that Portland's high of 115° beats the all-time record from Amarillo, TX of all places.

As the winds come from the ocean to the coast, it will start bringing temperatures down. It's not the typical northwest cool 70s and 80s, but at least the pressure cooker conditions ease up a bit for so many that don't have AC. It will still be an oven for locations away from the coast.

Meanwhile, east of the Rockies, we have a slow moving low pressure that's creating clouds and giving us some really pleasant late June weather. There is more rain to fall across the central and southern Plains and areas into the upper Midwest. Just take a look at the models for Tuesday:

And Wednesday:

The rainy pattern comes to an end on Thursday as the front slides south - by Thursday night and Friday, almost all of Kansas will have drier weather.

First 10 days in July shouldn't be too bad: Average high temperatures go to low 90s, and I think we will be close to that for much of the Plains. You would see much more red on the map below if we were headed for a prolonged period of 100s, but that setup isn't coming our way.

We could be looking at a tropical storm or hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico coming up next week. It's a week away, but conditions are looking favorable for something to develop south of us. It's too early to know if that system will have an indirect impact on Kansas, but Elsa is the next named storm on the list.