Walking downtown to pick up a sandwich for lunch, I couldn’t help but notice how autumnal the day felt. It was late July, but it felt like fall: cool, cloudy, with a wisp of north wind adding a slight briskness to the air.
“This,” I thought, “reminds me of Seattle.”
Sure enough, rain began to pelt me as I returned to my car with my meal in hand. Just out of curiosity, I decided to check the weather in Seattle for today: a forecast high of 100, with an excessive heat warning for much of the state.
To put that into perspective, Seattle has hit 100 once in July in the last 60 years.
Once.
WICHITA – Unseasonably cool weather remains in the forecast for the Wichita area today.
Highs should only reach the low 80s in southern Kansas, forecasters say, with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. East-southeast winds will dance between single digits and the low teens.
More rain is possible tonight and overnight. The city’s official recording station next to Mid-Continent Airport received .73 of an inch of rain Tuesday, bringing the total for July to 3.47 inches. That’s .45 above average for the month.
More rain is possible on Thursday, when highs are expected to only be about 80.