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The Weekly Weather Forecast
TUESDAY
HI: 76
LO: 53
- weather.com
Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low 50s.
MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014
WEDNESDAY
HI: 78
LO: 55
Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid 50s.
THURSDAY
HI: 79
LO: 58
Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s.
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WEATHER
FRIDAY
HI: 83
LO: 61
More sun than clouds. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s.
NWS: Cooler temperatures not a 'vortex'
MIRANDA DAVIS
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Students heading to summer classes this week won't be sweating in the typical July heat because the Lawrence area will see a 20-degree dip in the temperatures due to a series of cold fronts moving through the area.
According to the National Weather Service in Kansas City and Pleasant Hill, Mo., temperatures should hang around the mid-70s during the day, and while it's unusual to see this type of cold front in July, it isn't shocking or alarming.
"Really all it is is a cooler pattern for the summer, this happens every once
in a while," Pamela Murray, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of Kansas City and Pleasant Hill, said. "While it is unusual in July, it can happen so it's nothing too outrageous and we're just going to be a little cooler next week."
While we will see colder weather, meteorologists are hesitant to call this a "polar vortex," and the weather service in Topeka is referring to it as a cold front.
"It's been getting a lot of attention, but really it's just going to be a cold snap after a really hot period," Brian Barjenbruch of the National Weather Service Topeka said.
Like Murray, Barjenbruch agreed
that this wasn't as uncommon as some may believe.
"To be perfectly honest, it's not that all that unusual," Barjenbruch said. "We're going to be much cooler than normal."
This particular set of cold fronts has received a lot of attention but Barjenbruch said that only last year the area had three days in late July where temps dropped in a similar pattern.
"Last July we had three days, the 27th through the 29th where the highs were 74, 75 and 72 [degrees] so that's actually fairly similar to what we are looking at for this week," Barjennbruch said.
Barjenbruch said there shouldn't
be any negative results from the front and there won't be any freezing weather, just nicer temperatures in a usually hot July.
Edited by Ashleigh Lee
The actor who played the father in "Leave it to Beaver" was born here in Lawrence in 1909. Hugh Beaumont was best known for his role as Ward Cleawer, but appeared in over 80 films between 1940 and
1965.
WILD ART
DIVING INTO FRESHMAN YEAR
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Incoming freshmen Morgan Trout, from Olathe, and Alison Meyer, from Topeka, dive into a ball pit set up by the Office of First-Year Experience (OFYE) in front of the Kansas Union Wednesday, July 9. New students dove into the ball pit and answered a random question for use in a video filmed by the OFYE.
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