Kansas City, MO weather
Today 69° / 69°
Today's Forecast
Showers and thunderstorms before 5am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 69. Heat index values as high as 96. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
7-Day Outlook
Data from the National Weather Service
Last updated Tue, Sep 15, 10:27 PM UTC
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.