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Approximately 22 percent of the farmland in Kansas is irrigated, mostly with ground water from the High Plains Aquifer System. As a result, this aquifer is becoming depleted. Since the 1950s, the amount of water stored in the aquifer has declined by more than 25 percent in many parts of the state". [2]
The old record for July 5 precipitation was 1.76 inches in 1967.
The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [1] Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back ...
Wichita, and much of Kansas, is also continuing to see much needed precipitation — January had 1.76 inches of precipitation, which is about nine-tenths of an inch more than the average.
I-135, a north–south route, connects I-35 at Wichita to I-70 at Salina. I-335, a southwest–northeast route, connects I-35 at Emporia to I-70 at Topeka. I-335 and portions of I-35 and I-70 make up the Kansas Turnpike. Bypasses include I-470 around Topeka, I-235 around Wichita, and I-670 in downtown Kansas City.
Precipitation totals in mm While temperature is typically visualized using a line, some climographs opt to visualize the data using a bar. This method's advantage allows the climograph to display the average range in temperature (average minimum and average maximum temperatures) rather than a simple monthly average.
Wichita had already seen some rainfall Saturday afternoon. Total rainfall is forecast to be less than a half-inch. The highest chance of freezing rain will be between 4 a.m. and noon Sunday before ...