Another warm and humid late spring day.

Sunday – Partly cloudy. High: 86
Sunday night – Party cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. Low: 66
Monday – Mostly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. High: 84
Tuesday – Partly cloudy. A slight chance for showers and t-storms Tues. night. High: 90
Wednesday – Partly cloudy. High: 84
Thursday – Partly cloudy with a chance for t-storms. High: 88

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With all the outflow boundaries around the area from overnight thunderstorms, it’s been difficult to pick out where the weakened front really lies. Low and behold, the ample moisture and warm temperatures have bubbled up thunderstorms along the I-70 corridor just east of Kansas City. This is quite possibly where this front now exists. While most of the deeper moisture and convergence remains to the south, and the threat for thunderstorms gets less as you head west, I certainly can not rule out something forming over the next several hours.

A warm, but pleasant weekend.

Saturday – Partly cloudy. High: 84
Saturday night – Partly cloudy. Low: 64
Sunday – Mostly sunny. A slight chance for showers and t-storms Sun. night. High: 86
Monday – Partly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. High: 87
Tuesday – Partly cloudy. A slight chance for showers and t-storms Tues. night. High: 90
Wednesday – Partly cloudy. High: 84

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I forgot to update the blog when this went up… The Storm Predicition Center has issued a Tornado Watch for the area generally east of the I-35 corridor until 10pm. While the cold front is still west of the area, I expect most, if not all of the thunderstorms to be east of the metro tonight. Still the threat remains until the cold front passes us by early this evening.

While there is little holding back thunderstorms thermally right now, there is little if any convergence along the frontal boundary. So far all the thunderstorms have been north of the Missouri River with only blips of things firing up south of the river and along the front. As the low level jet tries to increase during the evening, it’s possible that it could provide enough convergence to fire up thunderstorms along the front. I don’t expect it to happen prior to this passage of this difuse front here in KC.