Rainfall is underway intermittently across the KVOE listening area.
Moderate rain is expected into mid-morning Friday, with 1-1.5 inches possible areawide. As of 5 pm, the KVOE studios received 0.60 inches of rainfall.
The rain follows an extended period of dense fog that developed well before sunrise Thursday and continued to mid-afternoon. All area counties were under dense fog advisories at one point.
Once the rain clears the area Friday, conditions should be sunny, dry and relatively mild, with weekend high temperatures near 60 degrees and highs next week near 50 degrees.
Drought conditions have been stable for over two months. The US Drought Monitor has the southwest quarter of Chase County as drought-free. The rest of the KVOE listening area, including Lyon County, is listed as abnormally dry.
1:30 pm Thursday: Dense fog advisory extended until 3 pm, shifts to northeast Kansas
Foggy conditions continue for Lyon County and part of the KVOE listening area.
Lyon, Coffey, Osage and Wabaunsee counties are in a dense fog advisory until 3 pm. Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Greenwood and Morris counties had been in an advisory earlier Thursday.
The National Weather Service still expects rain through Thursday night. Up to 1.5 inches of rain is expected.
5 am Thursday: Dense fog advisory underway until noon for Lyon, most surrounding counties
Light rainfall has come to the KVOE listening area with more coming later in the day. In between, thick fog is possible for much of the area Thursday morning.
Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Greenwood and Morris counties are currently in dense fog advisories until noon. Visibility could be a quarter-mile or less in parts of the alerted counties.
Drivers need to slow down, use low-beam headlights and increase the driving distance between their vehicles and others nearby.
Just over a trace of rainfall has been reported at the KVOE studios and the Emporia Municipal Airport since late Wednesday night. Milliken Airport in Eureka received 0.07 inches just before midnight.
More rainfall is likely from mid-afternoon Thursday into early Friday, with up to 1.5 inches of rain now possible. However, the National Weather Service says any risk of flooding is low despite saturated ground after ice and snow earlier this month.
KVOE and KVOE.com will have updates.
