Thursday - Partly cloudy to mostly sunny. High: 84
Thursday night - Mostly clear. Low: 63
Friday - Mostly sunny. High: 85
Saturday - Partly cloudy. High: 86
Sunday - Partly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. High: 87
Monday - Partly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. High: 86
Wednesday - Mostly cloudy with a slight chance for showers and t-storms. Cooler. High: 84
Wednesday night - Showers and t-storms likely. Heavy rainfall possible. Low: 67
Thursday - Mostly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms mainly in the morning. High: 80
Friday - Partly cloudy. High: 83
Saturday - Partly cloudy. High: 84
Sunday - Partly cloudy. High: 85
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Excessive heat warning ends this evening
Tuesday - Partly to mostly cloudy with a chance for showers and t-storms. High: 92 north, 96 south
Tuesday night - Mostly cloudy with a continued chance for showers and t-storms. Low: 68
Wednesday - Partly cloudy with a slight chance for showers and t-storms. Cooler. High: 85
Thursday - Partly cloudy. A continued slight chance for showers and t-storms. High: 86
Friday - Partly cloudy. High: 84
Saturday - Partly cloudy. High: 86
Sunday - Partly cloudy. High: 87
As Tropical Storm Edouard (no relation) continues to churn in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, my friend and colleague Gary Lezak made a GREAT observation . Believe it or not, Edouard actually formed out the wave of energy that WAS hurricane Dolly. Essentially, we have the remnants of a tropical wave making landfall a second time, 2 weeks later! — well, at least in part —
Keep in mind that this is also the same area of disturbed weather that brought 8 ½ inches of rain on the southwest side last week and moistened up the atmosphere for the incredible humidity we’ve had the last several days. While much of the disturbance from Dolly moved into the Atlantic, the wave in the atmosphere that Dolly became absorbed into certainly DID play a part in the formation of Edouard.
After reading Gary’s blog post, I decided to make a loop of my map archive. The loop starts on Tuesday night (as the heavy rains got underway), and ends at 7am this morning. If you carefully watch the colored area (which represents vorticity… tendency for spin about a vertical axis), you will see it slowly move from the KC area into the NE Gulf of Mexico and form Tropical Storm Edouard. Click the image to view the loop.
NOTE: The loop is rather large, so give it time to load. Once it’s fully loaded, it will animate on its own.
![[click for the full-sized loop]](http://KCWeather.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dolly-edouard.gif)
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