Kansas city breaks 80-year-old document low. Right here’s what’s forward in Wichita-area forecast

Wichita was three levels too heat Wednesday morning to tie a document low for Oct. 16. However two different locations in Kansas beat or tied a document.

The low temperature in Wichita on Wednesday reached 30 levels. The Oct. 16 document low is 27 levels, set in 1966. Data in Wichita date again to 1888.

Kansas has 4 official websites the place information are stored: Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Nationwide Airport and the airports in Russell, Salina and Chanute.

Chanute reached a low of 27 on Wednesday morning, surpassing its earlier Oct. 16 low of 28 levels in 1943, in keeping with Nationwide Climate Service knowledge. At 24 levels, Salina tied its Oct. 16 low set in 1966.

The tie in Salina is taken into account preliminary till an official document is taken later tonight, however it’s anticipated to carry, in keeping with NWS meteorologist James Cuellar, who is predicated in Wichita.

If the freeze Wednesday morning appears early within the season, that’s as a result of it’s a little sooner than typical. In Wichita, on information from 1991 to 2020, the common first freeze occurred round October 25, Cuellar mentioned.

“We’re about 9 days early, which is decently early, it’s not fully, completely out of the realm of what we’d anticipate,” he mentioned.

Wednesday’s climate was a “highly effective chilly entrance from the Northern Plains” within the Midwest, he mentioned. It was the coldest morning space broad since March 27, he mentioned.

It didn’t keep lengthy. It was within the 60s towards the late afternoon.

The forecast the remainder of the week is lows within the 50s with highs within the 70s. The traditional excessive this time of 12 months is 71 levels.

Rain may very well be doable Friday night time and into Saturday morning, however will doubtless keep west of Wichita, he mentioned. The world may see as a lot as a quarter-inch of rain Sunday night time and into Monday morning, he mentioned.