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Good Sunday bloggers! I hope everyone had a great Halloween and if you have a picture of your costume please send me an email and I may add a couple pictures to the blog this afternoon. Here is one that I received of Zachary dressed in a great Batman costume!
Today starts a new month and likely a weather pattern we have never experienced before! What lies ahead? We will give you our thoughts during our winter forecast which is just about 2 weeks away. There will be more details on that forecast in the coming days.
Before we discuss today's weather let's look back at October. Here in Kansas City the average monthly temperature was only 50.6 degrees, or 6.2 degrees below average! The coldest temperature at KCI was 31 degrees on the 18th, with the warmest reading coming on October 1 at 76 degrees. The rain total was 3.66", which was 0.33" above average.
For today we are going to see temperatures about 10 degrees above average! Highs should warm into the 60s to around 70 degrees. By early Monday a cold front will sweep thru the region. Behind this front winds will turn to the north at 10-20 mph and cooler air will gradually move in. Highs Monday should still be in the low 60s in the city, and then likely back into the 50s for Tuesday. Below is the forecast surface map at 6 a.m. Monday. The cold front is just south of Kansas City.
Later this week the GFS is advertising another nice warm-up. Below is the 500mb forecast map for this coming Friday afternoon. Notice the strongest of the winds are north of the U.S. & Canadian border. This is a good indication that the jet stream is well to our north. Also on this map you can see the winds are westerly from the Pacific right to Kansas City. This zonal flow will keep our temperatures average to above average for much of this week. And there is a good chance we could be in the 60s to around 70 by late this week!
Just as a reminder with the time change that 'Z' time also changes a bit. If you look at models like the one above, 18Z will now correspond to 12pm (Noon) and 00Z to 6pm.
Have a great Sunday and make sure to check out our newscasts for the most accurate forecast!
Jeremy