Finger on the Weather

After a gray, chilly week, Wichita is expected to drop below freezing early on Sunday morning.

That news won’t warm the hearts of folks who hoped cold weather was banished to the memory banks. But such a cold snap is hardly unusual for Wichita this time of year, forecasters say. After all, the latest spring freeze on the books in Wichita is May 13, in 1966.

In fact, the average date for the last killing frost of the spring is April 9.

“We are past that, but not by much,” said Jerilyn Billings, a meteorology intern for the Wichita branch of the National Weather Service.