Weather blog | What’s the smell in Kansas City? Chance of storms on Thursday

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Good Wednesday bloggers,

Before we get the chance for thunderstorms, we get a lot of calls to the station about a farm smell in the air. Although it is difficult to determine the direct cause and source location of the odor, it is most likely due to the foul-smelling air over farms in northern Missouri to Iowa, which is transported south-southwest by north-north northeasterly winds 10-20. km/h.

Now we have had north-northeast winds before and no smell. So why today? Well, that’s a good question. The only thing that comes to mind is that the scent was captured by a reversal and then transported perfectly to KC.

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Now back to something that also smells a bit. The ridiculous amount of dry weather.

Our dry spell ended on Tuesday with an official 0.05″, but the drought didn’t make a dent. We didn’t see a drop of rain between September 25 and October 21.

Now it won’t be 27 days until our next chance for thunderstorms. On Thursday evening we will have an increasing chance of thunderstorms with a cold front. Some storms may contain large hail that could be a quarter size or larger.

Jeff Penner

Jeff Penner

The next chance of rain after Thursday is Halloween week. That could be a bigger storm with more widespread beneficial rain.

Details on the upcoming chance of rain can be found in the video below.

Enjoy the rest of your week and weekend.
Stay healthy.

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