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A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Sunday, 20 September 2026

Kansas City, Missouri Revisions MILEPOST 1153

Kansas City's forecast for Thursday has moved 6°F colder

73°F in the 20260918T00:00Z run, 66°F in the 20260919T18:00Z — the 3rd-largest revision of the 4 cities on the roster that moved at all. The current run's 10th-to-90th percentile spread at that hour is 12°F.

Successive cycles do not merely refresh a forecast; they leave a trail. For Thursday, September 24 at 18Z in Kansas City, that trail runs from 72.6°F in the 20260918T00:00Z cycle to 66.3°F in the 20260919T18:00Z — a move of -6.3°F across 8 runs.

The change is about half the run's 10th-to-90th percentile spread, so the earlier forecast is still inside the current range of outcomes.

Model NBM-QMD, via api.weather.city /v1/history. Percentiles are the same run's own.

The numbers in this piece, with what they are measured against
forecast revision for Thursday at 18Z
api.weather.city /v1/history (nbm-qmd)
-6.3 °F normal 0.0 °F · 3 of 4
8 synoptic cycles
10th-to-90th percentile spread at that hour
api.weather.city (nbm-qmd)
11.7 °F normal 6.3 °F
current run
Milepost
1153 · laid 2026-09-20T10:25:16Z
Model
nbm-qmd · cycle 20260919T18:00Z
Desk
revision v1
Method
the same valid time read from successive synoptic cycles; the move is last run minus first run
Source
https://api.weather.city/v1/history
Digest
23236dc45c47ffe71accc46924eaa2bd8a8bb075e47c3455bc0b76bb3633d8ad
Machine
JSON