Kansas Heat (Wichita, Overland Park, Louisville: spring break, how much, house)

[unbeliever]

Well, it's always good to watch the weather in the places you're thinking of moving. We like Kansas enough to think of relocating there. We spent a week in Wichita this March, but the city is too small so I was naturally thinking of the KC area as a better option. We spent last Spring Break there and liked the Kansas side much better than the Missouri side.

We're pretty heat averse, and much as I'd love to get out of Colorado, it's 59 degrees here right now at 1am (I live at 7000 feet near Colorado Springs) and Overland Park looks hideous:

THU 6/16
96° /77°
Partly sunny and hot
FRI 6/17
99° /76°
Partly sunny and hot
SAT 6/18
98° /77°
Mostly cloudy and hot
SUN 6/19
98° /81°
Mostly sunny and hot

Those lows are enough to scare me off. I'm not a fan of AC, and while we have it, we use it a couple of hours a day when the house really heats up. A dry climate lets you get away with that.

I can research climate data, but anecdotally, is this "normal?"

Cheers

jb

[Pomelo]

Anywhere east of the Rockies will have this issue for you, except maybe Maine or some other very northern parts. And it will still be humid, relative to Rockies and west of Rockies.

[KSinmyrearviewmirror]

Those #s look accurate.

KS is known for extremes, other than not sending a Democrat to the US Senate since 1932, and both seats have been occupied by Republicans since 1939, the longest current streak of one party controlling both of a state's Senate seats.

There were the months of June/July 1980, when AFAIK > 30 days > 100 °F in a row. Highest Monthly Average 90.4°F July 1980

No matter how you manipulate the #s, there is no place within KS to escape. As you near the Kansas Ozark Plateau in the southeast corner. relative humidity rivals the Ozarks' of AR, MO & OK. The farther W you go in KS, cottontails give way to jackrabbits, who can circulate blood into their larger ears, dissipating heat, reducing body temp.

The KS territorial border was the Continental Divide. Denver is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. Evidently, Kansans had little interest in gold, moderate temperatures & medical/recreational marijuana./s

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by unbeliever

Well, it's always good to watch the weather in the places you're thinking of moving. We like Kansas enough to think of relocating there. We spent a week in Wichita this March, but the city is too small so I was naturally thinking of the KC area as a better option. We spent last Spring Break there and liked the Kansas side much better than the Missouri side.

We're pretty heat averse, and much as I'd love to get out of Colorado, it's 59 degrees here right now at 1am (I live at 7000 feet near Colorado Springs) and Overland Park looks hideous:

THU 6/16
96° /77°
Partly sunny and hot
FRI 6/17
99° /76°
Partly sunny and hot
SAT 6/18
98° /77°
Mostly cloudy and hot
SUN 6/19
98° /81°
Mostly sunny and hot

Those lows are enough to scare me off. I'm not a fan of AC, and while we have it, we use it a couple of hours a day when the house really heats up. A dry climate lets you get away with that.

I can research climate data, but anecdotally, is this "normal?"

Cheers

jb

Kansas experiences horrid summers, humidity is often just as bad if not worse than areas of the Deep South. However, the hottest temperatures can be more variable. One reason I left KC years ago was the completely insanely warm/hot low temperatures in the summer that are not acceptable to me.
I've actually been outside in Kansas with air temperatures of 105F and a dewpoint value over 80F. That produced a heat index reading of over 120F. This is not terribly unusual, and I never want to experience that ever again.

[Okey Dokie]

We are having a typical spell of summer heat right now. If you “aren’t a fan of A/C” I wouldn’t move here. I turn on the A/C in May and it runs continuously until mid September.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Okey Dokie

We are having a typical spell of summer heat right now. If you “aren’t a fan of A/C” I wouldn’t move here. I turn on the A/C in May and it runs continuously until mid September.

How much does that cost you monthly?

[Okey Dokie]

Electric bill is about $135.00 a month in the summer months. It’s just the 2 of us, 1,600 sq ft home, very energy efficient.

[unbeliever]

Ok, thanks for the sanity check. I'm actually looking for a little more humidity, but as you know moderate humidity doesn't exist in the U.S. It's either dry or unbearably humid. The other place I'm interested in is Kentucky, and it sounds like the weather in Kansas is no better. I probably won't be moving anytime soon with these interest rates, so I'm sure that I'll have more questions. Maybe I'll take a drive out to KC next month just to experience the hellish temps.

Thanks,

jb

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by unbeliever

Ok, thanks for the sanity check. I'm actually looking for a little more humidity, but as you know moderate humidity doesn't exist in the U.S. It's either dry or unbearably humid. The other place I'm interested in is Kentucky, and it sounds like the weather in Kansas is no better. I probably won't be moving anytime soon with these interest rates, so I'm sure that I'll have more questions. Maybe I'll take a drive out to KC next month just to experience the hellish temps.

Thanks,

jb

I currently live in the Ohio Valley in southern Indiana at double the elevation of Louisville. Temperatures and humidity have been brutal so far (low temperatures barely below 80F), other years there have only been a handful of days with high temperatures above 90F. I'm considering moving to the Upper Midwest (lived there a few times before), that has moderate humidity and summer temperatures that are at or below 80F as I much prefer real winters anyway.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Its about humidty. Does Kansas get humid along with the heat? It is not near any large bodies of water.