Rain becomes widespread tonight with isolated thunderstorms

On January 31, 2025By Littum

Kansas City, Mo. (KCTV) – Rain is likely and more widespread tonight and will be paired with areas with uneven fog. Isolated thunderstorm activity will be possible late tonight at night. Temperatures remain mild in the 40s to Friday morning.

Around 1 p.m. At 18.00, rain and storm activity will be widespread over the KCTV5 region and then lift to along and mainly north of the I-70 and I-35 corridor through the night to Friday morning. There will be pockets with heavy rain and thunderstorm activity in the system through the night and into Friday morning. The heaviest rainfall appears to occur throughout the night. Areas of uneven fog remain possible in Friday morning.

Friday morning the system begins to pull out through our southeastern counties and should mainly be out of the area between 7 p.m. 10 and noon.

In general, this seems to bring a lot of rainfall. We could see anywhere between 1 ″ to 2.50 ″ rain along and north of I-35 and 1-70. With totals falls as you go southeast of I-35 ranging between 0.25 ″ and 1 ″. Locally higher amounts will be possible.

The rest of Friday brings falling clouds, windy conditions and high temperatures in the upper 40s.

A warmer air mass lifts into the area throughout the weekend due to a pressure gradient when high pressure changes out of the west. Windows up to 30 km / h are possible Saturday afternoon, but temperatures will rise to the middle and upper 50s and lower 60s will be very common now for Sunday with mostly sunny to partially sunny sky.

At the beginning of next week, this hot air mass is changing with high pressure against the eastern and southeastern regions of the country, giving a pool of cool air the opportunity to fall back into our region. Temperatures fall to the top 40s Monday gradually falls down to seasonal temperatures in the top 30s next week when we look closely at the potential of the next wet weather or winter mixing pattern

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