Brace yourself, Kansas City: The cold is coming
Temperatures this weekend will remain warm(ish) with highs in the 50s and 60s, but don’t let Saturday and Sunday fool you: Cold weather is on its way.
According to the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, highs next week are expected to drop to the upper and mid 30s starting Tuesday.
Lows are projected to hang in the lower 20s throughout the following weekend.
The good news? Snow is not included in the forecast next week, with most days sunny or partly cloudy.
The same, however, cannot be said for Alaska.
Weather forecasters say an explosive storm surpassing the intensity of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy is heading north through the Pacific Ocean and is expected to reach Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea over the weekend.
The remnant of Typhoon Nuri is moving northeast from the Japanese coast and mixing with cold air and a jet stream that could bring hurricane-force winds and waves 50 feet high. The National Weather Service says it could arrive between late Friday and Saturday before weakening.
Weather service forecaster Bob Oravec says the system is expected to push frigid air into much of the continental U.S. next week.
While Sandy caused destruction along the urban East Coast, Nuri’s target in the north is a sparsely populated region with a few small communities that are accustomed to severe weather.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published November 7, 2014 at 11:55 AM with the headline "Brace yourself, Kansas City: The cold is coming."