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1. 1. Welcome to The Chanute Tribune

   www.chanute.com/chnsub/wire/AP - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/21/2006   Last Visited: 3/21/2006

   "What's happened is there's a little more warm air than we expected, and that's why we're seeing more rain as opposed to snow," said Darrel Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Topeka.

2. 2. Kansas State Collegian

   www.kstatecollegian.com/media/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 8/14/2006

   Darrel Smith, meteorologist for Topeka's NWS, said the heat is similar to what Kansas temperatures should be, rather than last year's mild summer.
   
   "It isn't unusual," Smith said.

3. 3. www.kansas.com

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   Published on: 6/2/2008   Last Visited: 6/2/2008

   Meteorologist Darrel Smith says many of the areas hit hardest by hail were rural, but some larger communities also reported significant damage.The reports of hail started in the early morning hours Monday and continued into late morning.
   
   "It's fairly rare to get so many baseball- to softball-sized hail reports," Smith said."Usually, you'll get one storm that will fire up and create this size hail.But this has been several storms that are doing this, so it is unusual in that aspect."
   
   He said reports started coming in as early as 7:45 a.m., with Clay Center seeing 3 1/2-inch hail.
   
   "That's larger than a baseball, but smaller than softball-sized hail," Smith said.
   
   Manhattan was the largest community affected by the storm, which was moving east toward Missouri, Smith said.
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   Smith said the weather service also got reports of golf ball- to baseball-sized hail in the Melvern Lake area, and baseball-sized hail in Reading.