Get ready for another short-term burst of record heat across the KVOE listening area this week.
High temperatures Wednesday will approach 90 degrees Wednesday and get into the low 90s Thursday. Both high temperatures would smash current unofficial records of 82 degrees, both set in 1956.
The projected record highs follow records reset Friday and Saturday. Friday’s high of 95 and Saturday’s high of 96 both broke records dating back to 2017.
With mild temperatures and relatively light winds, a lot of controlled burns were lit in Lyon and surrounding counties. Several Lyon County fire departments joined forces to put out a grass fire that developed near Roads 290 and S, about five miles south-southwest of Admire. Reading Benefit Fire Deputy Chief Mark Shoemaker says the fire traveled west and eventually stopped next to the Kansas Turnpike. Shoemaker says there was heavy smoke briefly crossing the highway before the fire was put out. Early indications are a brush pile fire went out of control.
Allergy sufferers had a rough afternoon Tuesday, although AirNow, the federal government’s air quality tracker, had Lyon County in moderate air quality as of mid-afternoon. With the higher temperatures Wednesday and Thursday will come higher fire danger, peaking Thursday with southerly wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Showers and thunderstorms are increasingly likely Thursday night and showers are possible Friday morning, leading to sharply cooler and breezy conditions through Friday.
