<body><div>Happy Wednesday as the cool weather continues, interestingly though, and purely from a statistical standpoint, we’ve yet to have a below average day in Kansas City. That’s because of the clouds, the mornings have been holding there own when it comes to temperatures. Overnight we only dropped to 60°, the average low is 55°, and the highs have been in the lower 70s, just a few degrees below average, so Monday we actually were 1° above the average temperature, and yesterday we were exactly average. So, the last below average day was back on August 27th right before the heat dome shoved to the region.Clouds again today are around but areas east of KC have had sunshine already, and hopefully as the day moves along we’ll see more and more of that sunshine push through the area, sending highs back into the 70s.While we will moderate a bit heading into Friday, rain chances will increase as we get into the weekend and right now the weekend, especially Friday into Saturday is looking rather iffy.<h2>Forecast</h2>Today: Clouds clearing with partly cloudy skies. Highs in the mid-70sTonight: Fair and cooler with lows in the 50-55°Tomorrow: Milder with sunshine and high in the mid-to-upper 70sFriday: Rain moves in during the day and cooler with highs only in the 60s, could be a raw day with the rain in the afternoon and perhaps even some falling temperatures.Lots of things have been happening in the world of weather these last couple of days… yesterday a system off the coast of Mexico, a tropical depression on Sunday, underwent rapid intensification, and in the course of roughly 2 days (about 42 hours) it became one of the most intense hurricanes in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin with winds estimated at 180 mph and an air pressure in the core of the storm down to 892 millibars or 26.34″. This occurred yesterday afternoon. It became one of the western hemisphere’s strongest storms on record. By pressure…872 mb in Hurricane Patricia (2015)882 mb in Hurricane Wilma888 mb in Hurricane Gilbert892 mb in Hurricane Melissa892 mb in the Labor Day Hurricane892 mb in Hurricane PoloSince then though, in part because of the compact storm and the fact that it really wasn’t moving much, it has churned over the warm waters in it’s area and that has allowed the system to “weaken” back down to a category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph…still a mighty storm as of this morning<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2FZNhn_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2FZNhn_1FRATPGU00" width="897" height="736" ></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0CEeu3_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0CEeu3_1FRATPGU00" width="800" height="800" ></figure>Polo will continue to move towards the north and northwest… as the chart above shows. Odds are it will not effect the USAFarther west there is another system that Hawaii is watching again…it’s a new tropical depression that will likely intensify into a hurricane south of the islands and potentially approach the Big Island again towards the weekend. That could turn into Nolo later today.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=33k7Vh_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=33k7Vh_1FRATPGU00" width="897" height="736" ></figure>Another 20-30″+ of rain possible for the mountains there.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=40Ek7O_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=40Ek7O_1FRATPGU00" width="1650" height="1275" ></figure>El Nino is responsible for all of this, and with this being one of the, if not the strongest ones that we know about, it’s adding premium gas to the weather set-ups down there and elsewhere. Tremendous ocean heat is being tapped to fuel the increase in storms and storms threatening the Hawaiian Chain (not uncommon in El Nino events).Then this weekend a RARE September nor’easter is likely to develop and affect the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern part of the country. Winds and coastal rains and flooding are expected. Only 1% of nor’easters occur in September so this is very unusual.Here are the forecasted winds off the EURO<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2ggmUH_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2ggmUH_1FRATPGU00" width="900" height="718" ></figure>and the GFS forecast…<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2CSNHm_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2CSNHm_1FRATPGU00" width="900" height="700" ></figure>Expect a real mess for airlines and weekend sports there.For us, we’re sort of in no man’s land for now, but a flow of moisture and waves coming up from the southern Rockies and Desert SW will create large areas of lift and that will equate to rain and we’ll be vulnerable to this into Sunday morning. Locally heavy rains are on the table with this… and depending on how this plays out, areas NW of KC may see 2″+. For the Metro, still a bit of a question mark but there has been a tick up in potential… perhaps 1/2″-1 1/2″ or so… timing appears to start Friday afternoon or evening.This could be a messy weekend for all the things happening around the area.Back to the Pacific Ocean again because there is another storm, west of Polo called Odalys, that actually has a chance of bothering us next week as it’s moisture comes into the US and potentially spreads into the Plains next Tuesday… that could bring rain back to the region. I’ve been looking at the water vapor forecast for both Polo and Odalys and while most of the moisture could be connected to Odalys there may be some assist from what’s left of Polo, too.Might be a good time to get some fertilizer down, especially from KC north and westwards.Temperatures will moderate but may not warm much above 80° on Sunday or Monday.So it’s going to get “weather-busy” around these parts over the next 10 days or so.The feature photo comes from Viktoria Foxfang<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0YDafN_1FRATPGU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0YDafN_1FRATPGU00" width="899" height="559" ></figure>Joe</div></body>

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