Today I helped the folks @ Children's TLC (Therapeutic Learning Center) with their annual Duck Derby. They've been kind enough to have me and FOX 4 involved for several years now and today was the big dropping of some 15000 ducks into Brush Creek @ the Plaza. The issue of the day was the winds, which were persistently for the AM and early PM having an SE component. This meant that for the first time in memory during the Derby, the waters of Brush Creek were going the opposite way. So after all these years of the ducks traveling from W>E...today they decided to go from E>W. So the hundreds/thousands of folks who attended the event and were accustomed to the ducks going one way, and had their seats set up, now had to reverse course. So I started walking all over the place telling the folks about the soon to be reversal of the duck motion. Between all waling,up and down, the heat and our KC humidity I started pouring out sweat. I was drinking a lot of water but when you need to be on the air a couple of hours later, you know it won't be pretty! After a few hours of A/C I'm finally cooling off, there may be some ice cream in my future tonight though IF I get everything done in time...including this weather blog! Here are some pictures of the Duck Race!
So as far as that weather goes...we made it to near 90 today with heat indices near 100. There were some 75-78 dewpoints running around this afternoon as our much heralded warm front lurched north of KC...here is the latest sat pic and weather set-up...
The moisture from the south is feeding a large developing complex of storms across the upper midwest. This complex will continue it's SE movement with perhaps a SSE shift as the night evolves and should ride the edge of a strong CAP which has built into the region....
That complex in NE Nebraska needs to be watched. For the metro, we'll need to watch the tail of that thing, stretching towards the I-80 corridor for our potential in the wee hours of MON AM.
There is some cool air behind that complex of storms, that will move in tomorrow afternoon as a cold front moves through. We should be pretty capped ahead of the front, so assuming the storms NOW in NE don't hit the metro, it's possible the front will come through dry. Areas farther SE from KC should see storms fire in the PM tomorrow, potentially some severe weather down towards the Lakes area through SE KS.
That heat in the southern plains is amazing. Amarillo which hit their ALL-TIME record high of 109 degrees FRIDAY..saw that record shattered TODAY...wow!!!!!
ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES SET IN AMARILLO
BORGER
AND DALHART TODAY...
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN AMARILLO REACHED 111 DEGREES AT 350 PM
TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 107 DEGREES SET IN
1990 AND TIED AGAIN IN 1998. THE 111 DEGREES SETS THE ALL TIME RECORD
HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR AMARILLO. THE OLD RECORD WAS 109 DEGREES SET ON
JUNE 24TH 2011.
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN BORGER REACHED 113 DEGREES AT 424 PM TODAY.
THIS BREAKS THE RECORD HIGH OF 107 DEGREES SET IN 1998. THE 113
DEGREES SETS THE ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR BORGER. THE OLD
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 108 DEGREES SET ON JUNE 24TH 2011.
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN DALHART REACHED 110 DEGREES AT 423 PM TODAY.
THIS BREAKS THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 104 DEGREES SET IN 1998.
THE 110 DEGREES SETS AN ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR DALHART.
THE OLD RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 108 DEGREES SET ON JUNE 24TH
2011. +++++++There are no real changes needed to my forecast thinking this week. Enjoy Tuesday because it's going to get rather toasty here from WED through next weekend with highs in the 90-95 bracket and heat indices in the 100-105 territory for a few days. In continue to see signals of a stormier pattern (nighttime type events) heading towards the latter part of the holiday weekend.
Sorry the blog is so late today...now you know why. Have a great week and I'll update again on Tuesday
Joe
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