Cooler temperatures and wetter conditions have been forecasted for September and later into fall.

Mary Knapp, Kansas State Climatologist explained that the National Climate Prediction Center just released their outlook for September and it is calling for wetter than average and cooler than average conditions for the entire month.

“As we look out a little bit further, the September, October and November outlook are also favoring cooling than average and wetter than average,” said Knapp.

She went on to explain that it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be cold and wet the entire time, but the average over the entire period will be on the cool and wet side.

As she looked back on this past summer Knapp felt that it wrapped up,”very nicely.”

“We’ve had some hot weather, but the heat was relatively limited. It was not a very extended period. It was on the more humid side which created its own problems, people were more uncomfortable because we had some high heat indexes.”

Overall she explained it fell right into the average, which made it seem different because it had been awhile since the state has seen an average summer because lately it has been,”on one side of the scale or the other.”