Cool! Salina broke a weather record Wednesday.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Wichita, Salina, along with some other cities in Kansas, set a record cool high for Sept. 9 when 49 degrees was recorded as the official high for Salina. The previous record cool high was 62 degrees in 1962, NWS noted.
A record setting cold airmass spread across the Plains and into the Rockies on Wednesday and into today. Low temperatures on both the Wednesday and Thursday plummeted into the 40s across most of Kansas with readings falling into the 30s across Western Kansas.
High temperatures on Wednesday only reached the 40s and 50s. Normal highs for the beginning of September are in the 80s across Kansas.
Widespread snow occurred across most of Colorado with some of this even affecting parts of Western Kansas. Goodland measured a half inch of snow on Wednesday, which is the earliest they have ever measured snow in Goodland, NWS reported.