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Great article! Even if we do have to wait 8 more years, I'm excited that we'll get to see one in Kansas City!

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Hopefully it won't be cloudy that day:)

Jeremy

Why does the NWS use relative humidity in that chart instead of dewpoints? Makes it harder to calculate if Gary says we might see dewpoints near 80 degrees. I have to take of my shoes and socks to calculate something like that. ***************** Try this... http://www.weatherimages.org/data/heatindex.html

Does anybody now how long the side affects of a Tetinus shot is suppost to last!

Was last August's heat wave accompanied by this high of dewpoints? Or is this the highest we have seen in a while? I can't remember. I think the La Cygne area is going to make it in to the mid-90s today. It is already 88 degrees outside. At 5:30 this morning it was somewhat pleasant out - had a NE breeze.... well that is long gone now. *************** On the news this morning I showed a graphic that had low 90s in KC and mid 90s to the south and also west. You will may be around 94 or 95. Jeremy

Great weather story, Jeremy.  I look forward to reading those every day! **************** Oh there will be another one later today!

It is starting to get hot here in Lawrence, nice n' Sunny to!

92°F
Feels Like
109°F

That is what my analog thermometer says! ************** I guess it's possible...the NWS station has a heat index of 104 in Lawrence. Jeremy

No, you were right, it's gone down:

90°F
Feels Like
104°F

No, you were right, it's gone down:

90°F
Feels Like
104°F

All I know is that when you come inside and 74˚ feels like the deep freeze, then it MUST be pretty hot outside!!  Not a good day to be walking around getting block party signatures!!

Right now it's 68 degrees in New York City.  Please send it here.  

94, dewpoint of 78, for a heat index of 110 at the Lawrence airport. Lovely day here in the tropics. **************** Yuck...that's about the best way to describe it! Although I will still take it over a snowy 20 degree day. Jeremy

Good Afternoon Jeremy:

This weather were having Is very unusual.

The weather here In Stilwell at 1;30PM Is  Temp of 98.6 RH is 63,Dew point Is 84 and the Heat Index Is 128 that's un-real !!

I checked Johnson County airport and there reading at 12:53 Pm was Temp 91 Dewpoint of 79 that makes the Heat Index  there of 116 degrees.

I tried cutting my grass this morning at 8:30 AM but It was so wet had to quit that's a first for me !

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I think putting off mowing the lawn for a few days is excusable:)

Jeremy

Bring on the cold front!!!

It is 86 degrees here in Marceline with a dewpoint of 71 degrees, and a heat index of  92 degrees.

Much more comfortable here than it has been a bit west.

Jeremy, are you seeing any potential for severe weather or more heavy rainfall around the area with this next approaching cold front.

Alex

Juba- side effects from tetnus shot should only last a few days up to a week at the most.

I remember the eclipse in 1978 (does that tell how old I am).  I was in elementary school and we went out on the playground and I think we had made special "eclipse viewers" to look at it.

Wow, that eclipse thing is unreal, St. Joe would be in the DEAD ON path of totality!!
I will be very MAD if it was cloudy that day, unreal!  What do they know what time it will occur?  Now I have something to look forward to the next 9 years or so!

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The track of the eclipse goes across the entire U.S. with a narrow path having a total solar eclipse.  And if you are still living in St. Joe you will be right in the middle of the action!

Jeremy

Kimberly, I too recall being in elementary school during the last solar eclipse and making some type of viewer from a cardboard box and other materials that now escape the memory horizon of my nearly 40 year old brain!  I'll be looking at the next one as well, although I'll give any odds anyone wants that it will be a cloudy day.

For the first time in my life, I've seen an 80 degree dewpoint. It's 90 degrees here with heat index over 110. All of this humidity is from the remnants of Dolly, I presume. It's absolutely toxic outside.

Even with the forecasted temperatures though Tuesday, I believe we will reach our APEX or highest mean temps for the year.  Our average day highs and nightly lows will go down after this weekend- which is about 12 days earlier than normal.  
If you graph the highs and lows for the last 6 months and combine for a mean temp over 30 days, we hit the mean temp (so far) on July 26th.  Since July 26th, our mean temp has gradually fallen.  

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Gary,

I think this will be our hottest stretch this year.  At least some 'cooler' air will arrive by the middle of next week.

Jeremy

4pm observation at whiteman afb was 92 with a dewpoint of 82 and a heatindex of 113 wow that is brutat. stay cool everyone.

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That's steamy!

Jeremy

falls city,ne 96 degrees dewpoint 81 with a heat index 118. yuck

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Welcome to our Sunday forecast:)

Jeremy

So obviously heat and humidity alone cannot produce thunderstorms?!  Probably a silly question.  I think if they could, we'd for sure have a couple today!!

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We have a big layer of warm air in the atmosphere, not very good for t-storm development.  No t-storms until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Jeremy

Jeremy I don't like your sunday forecast I'm sure no one else does too. I want to buy a thunderstorm to cool us off.

This horrible heat makes me wonder what the middle and end of the month will be like. We are going to the state fair the weekend of the 16th. Is there a long range forecast for August somewhere? I ran a search, but wasn't successful. No way do I want to be walking around the fair all day in this kind of weather. TIA!

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We don't expect there to be an extended heat wave in August.  We should cool down next week.  I'm sure we will have another hot period, but maybe this will be the worst in August(I hope).

Jeremy

Thanks, Jeremy. That's pretty good news. With my luck though, the cool down will last right up until the 15th, and then another heat wave. I thoroughly dislike sweating! lol

I just took my dog out and for once she didn't mind walking through the sprinkler to cool off. There is a heat index of 110 right now, yuck! But I do agree with Jeremy's earlier comment - I'll talk this over a zero degree day any day!

bring on winter!

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Pools are frozen or empty in the winter...I'll take the heat:)

Jeremy

Maybe if I do Pushups then We wont have this heat tomorrow

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
455 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008

..MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM AREA OBSERVATION SITES...

THE COMBINATION OF REPEATED HEAVY RAINS OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS AND
A SUMMERTIME RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE REGION HAVE SET THE
STAGE FOR SOME OF THE MOST OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS OBSERVED IN KANSAS
CITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN RECENT YEARS. THE DEWPOINT...A DIRECT
MEASURE OF MOISTURE IN THE AIR...HAS BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH AS A
PROLIFIC GROWING SEASON HAS CONTINUED WELL INTO THE MID SUMMER.
IN FACT...THE DEWPOINT HIT AND LOCALLY EXCEEDED 80 DEGREES IN
SEVERAL AREAS TODAY. DEWPOINT READINGS THIS HIGH ARE RARELY OBSERVED
OVER WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS MORE THAN ONCE EVERY
SEVERAL YEARS...AND ALMOST UNHEARD OF IN AUGUST WHEN CLIMATOLOGY
FAVORS HOT...BUT INCREASINGLY DRY CONDITIONS OVER THE REGION.

AS A RESULT...THIS MOISTURE WHEN COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE
MID TO LOCALLY UPPER 90S...RESULTED IN HEAT INDEX VALUES EXCEEDING
110 DEGREES IN MANY AREAS...WITH VALUES AS HIGH AS 118 DEGREES
OBSERVED ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO.

BELOW ARE SOME SELECT OBSERVATIONS FROM ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AS
OF 4 PM CDT. * NON-ASOS SITES ARE UNOFFICIAL...BUT THESE SITES ARE
QUALITY CONTROLLED AND DEEMED ACCURATE.

SITE                        SOURCE                  HIGH             MAX
                                                  TEMPERATURE      HEAT INDEX

LEES SUMMIT ARPT (LXT)       ASOS             94              112
DOWNTOWN KC ARPT (MKC)   ASOS             96              113
KANSAS CITY INTL (MCI)         ASOS             94              112
ST. JOSEPH ARPT  (STJ)          ASOS             90              106
OLATHE JOCO EXEC (OJC)        ASOS             94              108
OLATHE NEW CENTURY (IXD)    ASOS             94              110
SEDALIA AIRPORT (DMO)          ASOS             91              108
WHITEMAN AFB (SZL)                AFB              92              113
WARRENSBURG  (RCM)           AWOS             94              111

BASEHOR                               AWS               99              115
CLINTON                            FIRE RAWS          96              117
GREEN RIDGE                  MISSOURI AGNET    92              112
LEE`S SUMMIT 3E              NWS EMPLOYEE    95              118
PLEASANT HILL                NWS EAX                95              118
N KANSAS CITY                NWS CRH               93              117
5 NE PLEASANTON KS           FIRE RAWS        98              117
ST. JOSEPH                   MISSOURI AGNET      90              108

Hey Weather Team - I think this would be a good opprotunity to take another poll like you did during the deep freeze this past winter, on blogger's preferences - 100 degree days versus 10 degree days!  Wonder of all of the people that voted for the summer heat still think that way now - especially after seeing their latest AC/KCP&L bills!!!!  Bring on the SNOW!!

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I think Gary may do a poll tomorrow night(he's doing the 10pm show) or on Monday.  We'll give everyone another day of the heat to see if their opinion's change.

Jeremy

Steve in sweltering OP

I'm so hot! :(