By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
After a daytime high of 103 degrees in Hays on Sunday, a fast moving thunderstorm shortly before 10 p.m. helped cool the temperature down a little more quickly, to 72 degrees.
The rainfall measured at the K-State Agricultural Research Center south of town was 0.54 inches.
So far in July, Hays has received 2.88 inches of rain, about half an inch less than the cumulative average for the month of 3.33 inches.
The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map for Kansas shows all of Ellis County still in a drought, ranging from abnormally dry in the northwest part of the county to severe drought in the southeast corner.
Temperatures early this week will be soaring past the century mark according to the three-day weather forecast, with a heat advisory in effect for Monday.