Kansas City, MO weather
Right now 57°, clear · tonight 53°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 57° · clear · calm · 5° warmer than this time yesterday · at Kansas City Downtown, 5:15 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Clear, with a low around 53. Southeast wind around 3 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Kansas City
Kansas City averages 11 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a occasional snow place. Snow is a few-times-a-year event. Limited equipment means modest amounts cause real disruption.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 11 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 2 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Kansas City
The nearest radiosonde launch is Topeka, about 56 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Kansas City (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 1:41 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.