Severe weather can strike our region anytime. Because March through June is typically our most active period, “Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week” officially begins Monday March 8. To prepare for this season, the Douglas County Emergency Management (DCEM) has partnered with the Topeka ...

Just a reminder, anyone interested in the forecasting competition still has time to join. It will begin next week, with the first forecast FOR Wednesday, March 10th DUE by 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 9th. For the first week I will score the forecasts, but we will call it a trial run, so it won't ...

The contest will begin next week, so if anyone hasn't joined yet, you will have until next Tuesday (March 9th) to jump in. Here are the rules. Please comment if you have any questions. At first, we will forecast for only one day. If everyone is interested in adding more days in the ...

There is indeed a decent chance that we’ll be staring down 60 in about a week. The weather models are showing signs that a plume of moist and relatively mild/warm air will surge across our region, beginning next weekend. I suppose it’s not really going out on a limb because our average high ...

You've probably seen us discussing how difficult forecasting can be at times for Kansas, especially during this past winter! A small change in the path of a system can mean the difference between rain, ice, snow and amount of snow. It's time for you to test your skills (or luck). I wanted ...

In all my years of studying atmospheric dynamics, I have never seen jet stream patterns shaped the way they have been for as long as they have this winter (the better part of 3 months). Case in point; just last week there was a wind structure in place over the North Atlantic at about 20 ...