Barometric Pressure Forecast for Raytown, Missouri
Barometric pressure forecast for Raytown, Missouri — an enclave within Kansas City in Jackson County, above the Blue River valley. See current barometric pressure and what it means for weather-sensitive people.
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Pressure and weather in Raytown
Raytown is surrounded on every side by Kansas City, sitting at about 1,000 feet on rolling ground east of the Blue River, ten miles southeast of downtown and about the same distance south of where the Missouri River bends east. Its weather is Kansas City weather with two urban qualifications. The first is the heat island: being embedded in continuous development keeps summer nights several degrees warmer than the farmland out in eastern Jackson County, and in a Missouri July, when the dew point sits in the seventies for days at a time, those few degrees are the difference between a night that offers some relief and one that offers none. The second is drainage. The Blue River and its tributaries run through built-up, largely paved basins, and the region's characteristic summer storm, a slow-moving complex training over the same ground for hours, produces flash flooding in those channels far faster than the rainfall total alone would suggest. The pressure story is the standard western Missouri one: Plains lows crossing from Colorado in spring and autumn with falls of twenty to twenty-eight hPa, Arctic fronts in winter that cross dry with a sharp rise and a thirty-degree temperature drop, and a summer ridge holding the barometer high and flat for a week at a stretch while overnight thunderstorm complexes arrive from the northwest.
What this means for you
Summer here pairs a flat barometer with oppressive humidity, so pressure alone explains little of what people feel in July. Logging humidity and sleep alongside pressure in a migraine tracker app fills that gap.