Kansas City was second hottest city in the U.S. Monday morning. More heat in forecast
Kansas City was the second hottest city in the country Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
That news came ahead of a day expected to reach record-high temperatures.
At 4 a.m., it was 82 degrees in Kansas City, making the city one of the hottest places in the nation and second only to a site in Arizona, where the recorded temperature was 83 degrees, the National Weather Service tweeted.
The city is on “Record Watch” Monday for its hottest low and high temperatures for the date of Sept. 19, the weather service tweeted.
Kansas City’s warmest low temperature for that date was recorded in 1931 at 77 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the National Weather Service, the city was at 78 degrees Fahrenheit and had dropped just one degree over three hours Monday morning.
Set in 1931 and again in 1954, the record high for Sept. 19 is 95 degrees. Monday’s predicted high is 99 degrees.
The day will be sunny and hot with winds between 8 and 18 mph, according to the weather service. At night, the low temperature will dip down to 77 degrees with winds up to 21 mph.
Tuesday’s forecast also predicts high heat in Kansas City with a high near 100 degrees and a low around 74 degrees.
The city tied another record Sunday, with highs reaching 96 degrees, a temperature that hadn’t been reached on that date since 1925.
This story was originally published September 19, 2022 at 8:20 AM.
