wxteam4's Blog

Major flooding occured late last night and into the morning hours today. Some spots in north-central Missouri picked up close to NINE inches of rain in under 8-10 hours. In fact Linneus, MO picked up 7.10" of rain in FOUR hours!!! I also read a public report of the river stage rising 15 feet in Linn County near Linneus in one hour due to the very heavy rain. Other counties(just to name a few) that were hit with flooding rains last night were Macon, Grundy and Daviess, which include the cities of Atlanta (Macon), Trenton (Grundy) and Gallatin (Daviess). Fortunately we are going to see a slightly drier pattern for the next couple of days with less of a concern for an organized rain event. We are going to have a very warm and humid airmass in place(highs in the 90s, dewpoints in the 70s) and during the peak heating of the day is when we will see our best chance for showers/storms to pop up just about anywhere(only about a 20-30% chance at best). This will hopefully give most spots a chance to dry out until late on Friday. Friday night is when we'll see our next chance for more widespread and heavy rain to move through the viewing area. This next front should move through late on the day Friday and linger through the first half of our Saturday. By Saturday afternoon we should be dry and see cooler temperatures for highs in the lower to mid 80s.

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Besides flooding concerns we are also going to have our first real dose of hot weather for the summer. Today was the first day of 2008 where we saw temperatures at or above 90 degrees in the metro. The last time we saw 90 degrees was September 21, 2007. Highs average this time of the year are around 86 in Kansas City and we are expecting lower to mid 90s for the rest of the week's high temperatures. Couple that with very high dewpoints and the heat index is going to become an issue for the rest of the week. Heat indices should reach closer to the 95-100 degree range the next two afternoons before we see some relief with "cooler" air for the weekend. For those of you who want to know what exactly the heat index is click here.

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One other little tidbit of information before I leave you for the day...the next "temperature mark" to meet will be 95 degrees...which could be a possibility as well later this week for parts of the viewing area. I went back and looked at 2007's data and found the first 95 degree day of the year in 2007 was July 17th and the last time we saw 95 was September 4th, 2007.

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday!!!

-Karli