KSHB: Weather: Action Weather Blog: FREEZE WARNING

Get ready for a cold night... we have a FREEZE WARNING in effect for the entire viewing area. Temperatures are expected to drop to or below freezing in most locations... as an area of high pressure builds in from the North.

High pressure is our fair weather friend... and will bring us clear skies and light winds overnight. These are prime conditions for "radiational cooling," where the heat of the day rapidly escapes back out into the atmosphere after the sun sets. I will go over this in our 10pm newscast.

A FREEZE WARNING means you need to protect any tender vegetation you might have planted already. The best way to do that is to cover them with a sheet. If your plants are sitting out in pots... bring them in!

While we're dealing with the COLD... at least we're not dealing with the SNOW... like people in Ohio and Michigan! Below is the HPC's forecast for snowfall. It depicts the chance of snow accumulations of four inches or more.

Looks like eastern Michigan and Northeastern Ohio will get the worst of it! I have family in Cleveland... they are all complaining about the late April snow! This comes after a VERY active winter in the Buckeye state! Cleveland actually picked up a record snowfall of over 105 inches!!

Meantime, our area of high pressure will provide plenty of sunshine Sunday afternoon. That will help temperatures warm to near 60 degrees! Not bad after a freezing start!!

We're watching our next storm for MONDAY. It will bring us a chance of showers in the afternoon and evening. Stay tuned for updates!

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Thinking it is going to be a Hot dry summer. It is early to say but IM begining to think that way. I want to wait until June 8th to 15th to say for sure. If we get a lot of Severe weather up to June 15th I beleive it could be a normal summer that is Timely rains and not super hot. If not many storms then a Dry hot Summer because I think an Omega Block will set up blocking Storms System from our area. I think you guys call it a REX BLOCK. I call it an OMEGA BLOCK because it sets up for weeks and could set up for a couple of months or so. From what IVE seen so far IM leaning towards the OMEGA BLOCK set up on into summer. Would any of you there like to comment on this possible set up ?

Steve Newport
DeSoto Kansas

Steve,

It is too early to tell. And, look at the pattern now. I have explained on the air that we are in a 75 day cycle. This week should repeat again in 75 days which would be right around the time it is suppose to get hot. This would imply a cool spell as we go into July. We'll see.

Gary