Kansas City, MO – A widespread warmer-than-normal pattern is favored across America’s Heartland next week, with Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri positioned within a broad area of elevated temperature probabilities. Above-normal precipitation is also favored across much of the central Plains, creating a potentially warmer and wetter late-October period from Nebraska south through Kansas and into portions of Missouri.
According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, the six- to 10-day temperature and precipitation outlooks issued Wednesday, October 14, cover Tuesday, October 20, through Saturday, October 24. The maps show a strong warm signal across the central United States, while precipitation probabilities favor wetter-than-normal conditions across much of Nebraska and Kansas before weakening farther east.
Strong warmth probabilities stretch across the Heartland Kansas lies within NOAA’s above-normal temperature probability shading, with much of the state falling into the 60% to 70% category and eastern portions approaching 70% to 80%…