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Good morning 41 Action News Weather Bloggers,

An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect at least through Friday. The all time hottest June temperature in Kansas City recorded history is 108° in 1934. We will likely make a strong run at this record Thursday as the western and central Kansas air heads our way. As you can see it was 115 degrees in Hill City, KS Tuesday:



Here is the 7 day we showed on the 10 PM newscast last night. Meteorologist Brett Anthony updated it this morning, tweaking the highs a bit. He lowered the 107° to 105° and he may be right, but I believe we will have highs between 102° and 111° across much of our viewing area on Thursday:



That western Kansas air will be forced our way later today and tonight and temperatures will get out of control without a cloud in the sky and with a nice westerly to southwesterly breeze on Thursday. The heat wave begins today and we are forecasting 102° this afternoon. This is the beginning of what will likely be a rather dangerous heat wave. The biggest dangers will be to the elderly, people working outside for long periods of time, and to our landscaping. I just looked at the latest GFS model and I really don’t see any chance of rain for a long time. Once the heat builds in it will be hard to move out. If we do get a cold front in here we can hope the heat gets pushed way out of here, but more likely it would get pushed to our south and west and just come back in as the pattern shifts back into the building ridge. There is some potential for some tropical easterly flow making it this far north, but I don’t see this possibility at the moment.

I will try to update the blog later this afternoon. Have a great day! It’s summer time!

Gary
http://weatherblog.kshb.com/