The weather has certainly tamed down this week. Amazing how quickly we shut the rain off and crank up the heat. Perfect timing for combines rolling in the wheat fields and here's to a speedy harvest around the state. Long days and short nights for the farmers. The weather looks like it will cooperate too.
Setup into the weekend and early next week:
A large high pressure will be dominating the upper level pattern. In this kind of setup, it's very difficult for storms to form, much less have anything widespread. This is typical in summer, but sometimes these high pressure systems don't budge and can lead to prolonged heat waves. In the upcoming setup, you'll see big time heat going all the way up to the US/Canadian border. Places that have been getting rain and even some snow are about to see a major flip in the weather.
I don't foresee a major, prolonged heat wave developing but our weather is not likely to change very much over the next week - 10 days (maybe longer).
Monsoon returns to the Southwest and Colorado:
I don't think this could come at a better time, given that big fires are happening now in New Mexico and Arizona. They have been burning for several weeks, and we are seeing some of that smoke filtering across the Kansas sky. It would appear that between Friday and the beginning of next week, as much as 1-2 inches of rain may fall in some of those areas, hopefully helping fire fighters get the upper hand.
I mention the smoke because as you'll notice in the image below, upper level winds the next few days will carry it right across the midsection of the country.
Have a great day.
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