Good morning! An active weather pattern during the past few days has been due to the jet stream carrying one system after another through the Southern Plains putting Kansas on the northern part of rains.

The last one of these systems is passing to our south early today bringing rain to Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas.

At the same time, a large area of Canadian high pressure centered over Colorado bringing a cold northerly surface flow through Kansas and providing cold temperatures, below-average for early April.

At the present time, light rain is southeast of Wichita as far north as Elk and Chautauqua counties and will move out early today.

Skies are mostly clear north and west of Salina and Dodge City, while overcast skies dominate farther south and east. Temperatures early this morning range from the 20s in western Kansas to lower 40s over the southeast part of the state.

High pressure will drift across Texas today and tonight turning our winds around to the southwest by tonight. As low pressure centered over the Lower Mississippi Valley move farther east, any cloud cover will give way to sunshine across Kansas today but temperatures will remain below the average with statewide highs in the 50s with lighter winds making it feel much better than Saturday.

Mostly clear skies Sunday night will allow temperatures to drop below freezing in most of the region by early Monday morning.

A freeze watch has been issued for central and eastern Kansas for later tonight into early Monday. This is the area where the growing season has already started.

Monday will be the start of a nice warm-up with sunshine, light winds and highs back up to average levels for early April, into the 60s.

The warm up continues warming our temperatures into the 70s the remainder of the upcoming week with a few lower 80s in the mix.

The only chance for rain will arrive Thursday with a shower or thunderstorm possible for the eastern half of Kansas.

Otherwise, expect beautiful Spring weather right through next weekend with an increase in southwesterly winds.

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