Dean Jones

05/29/2026

Every so often...
I get an opportunity to visit some beautiful places...this weekend and next weekend is one of those times. It's been 4 years since my last visit to Canada... enjoy the weather in Kansas, while I'm gone...

So when you ask, "Where's Dean?" just know, "I've gone fishin'"... I'll have some big fish stories when I return.😉

05/24/2026

Good question. The upper-level weather pattern (Jetstream) is changing towards a summer-like pattern with the stronger jet stream winds lifting north into the northern Plains and Canada. This is a normal seasonal trend, however appears to be happening sooner than normal.

That said, a stronger weather system will move into the Mountain West and stall, this will establish a moist and unstable flow from the Gulf into the central Plains in the week ahead. Minor disturbances will eject from the stronger system out West, into the Plains starting on Wednesday. Several more will make their way into Kansas Thursday and Friday.

The net result will be summer-like late day and overnight thunderstorm chances for most of Kansas. Rainfall amounts however look meager 0.25-1.00" Wednesday through Friday.

05/24/2026

Quiet weather conditions, low or no severe weather expected today or tomorrow. Any storms will be extremely isolated and short-lived. It's rare, dare I say "medium-rare"... that we have such a nice holiday forecast. Perfect for golf, pool, lake an outdoor activities- widespread rain chances hold off until Wednesday.

05/24/2026

Travel weather forecast looks rather benign, with no major issues or concerns today or Memorial Day

05/24/2026

Summer-like temperatures headed our way for the remainder of the holiday weekend. Sunny skies and light wind speeds with temperatures in the 80s today and 80s and low 90s on Memorial Day. An isolated storms is possible each afternoon across western Kansas.

Isolated storms will remain possible over western Kansas.

05/24/2026

Get ready for Summer- ideal weather for outdoor activities; camping, golf, pool, lake with fairly light wind speeds and summer-like temperatures. An isolated storm or two, (almost not worth mentioning) across western Kansas. Highs in the 80s and low 90s.

05/23/2026

Radar Update: 12:08pm
KWCH-Capital Federal Skycam from the Epic Center downtown looking west... taken at the same time as the radar image below.

Nothing severe, but showers and storms moving into west Wichita. Nice looking high based shelf cloud rolling in too...nothing scary, just looks cool...

I'm such a weather geek.

Upon further review- going outside to take a look... it's undulatus asperatus clouds... cool.

05/23/2026

Scattered showers and storms continue to move east across south-central Kansas. We are not expecting severe weather with this cluster of storms, however occasional lightning strikes and heavy downpours are possible through 1 P.M.

05/23/2026

Radar Update: 10:45am Saturday
General showers and storms with occasional cloud-to-ground lightning continue to show a diminishing trend as they move east at 35 mph.

We measure these trends- looking at several factors; radar echo intensity, height of the radar echo tops, CG lightning activity, infrared satellite trends...all are diminishing in the past hour.

That said, a few new cells have developed out ahead of the advancing cluster of storms across Kingman and Reno counties, that may become strong enough for a few CG lightning strikes.

No severe weather is expected, just brief heavy downpours and occasional lightning strikes through Noon.