The MIDWEEK Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 53 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather County report enacts ban 67° 10 a.m. Monday on burns, Today • Sunset, 8:17 p.m. Wednesday fireworks • Sunrise, 5:25 a.m. • Sunset, 8:17 p.m. By Kevin Bottrell
[email protected] Midday Conditions The Sherman County Commis- • Soil temperature 72 degrees sioner have put in place a burn ban, • Humidity 50 percent which includes a prohibition on • Sky mostly sunny fireworks, until further notice. • Winds south 3 mph The commissioners passed the • Barometer 30.31 inches ban at their meeting Friday, saying and steady that although conditions in some • Record High today 104° (1921) parts of the county are better than • Record Low today 46° (1924) last year, it has still be extremely dry. Last 24 Hours* The commissioners called in Ru- ral Fire Chief Brian James, who said High Sunday 82° he would be comfortable both with Low Sunday 54° or without the ban, but he prefers to Precipitation none err on the side of caution. This month none “Last year went great with the Year to date 7.40 ban,” he said. “Fire calls were way Below normal 2.33 inches down.” The Topside Forecast The commissioners voted unani- Today: Mostly sunny with a high mously to put the burn ban in place. near 82, winds out of the east at 5 They said if the county receives any to 15 mph and a low around 54.