Kansas apparently has dodged the brunt of a winter storm that dropped freezing rain across Oklahoma and Arkansas and caused power outages and hazardous driving conditions.
Those in Missouri and Kansas should bundle up -- or stay inside -- as a southbound arctic air mass threatens wind chill readings of 20 below zero or colder.
Kansas Climatologist Mary Knapp says she's not blown away by the 199 tornadoes that hit the state in 2008, even though that number is a little higher than average.
Record high temperatures in Kansas City on Friday gave way to strong storms Saturday morning that knocked off power to 36,000 people in the metropolitan area.