Why is kansas so stormy?
From the north, the jet stream will often dip down far enough to bring cold arctic air down into the state. From the west you have Colorado and the Rockies, which chills the west-to-east winds. And since Kansas is pretty much all plains, there is very little to slow down those winds once they build up steam. Then you mix in either the hot, dry air from Texas that sweeps in from the south, or the hot and humid air masses that creep up from Louisiana through Arkansas and Missouri/Oklahoma borders, and mix, and the result is a lot of storm fronts. You end up with a lot of ways to mix up hot/cold and wet/dry air masses. What further complicates things is that, especially during the spring and early summer, the same front will evolve and cause multiple storms. There’s been many times I’ve seen a cold front push through, only to eventually turn into a warm front a couple days later and reverse back through the same area with a new set of storms. At least, those are my observations. I’m inclu
