We'd not have long to wait as it turns out- with sub-freezing temperatures becoming prevalent locally within 2 days of that date and now- according to a surprising agreement among operational weather models- a major snowstorm possible a week into December.
Right now- it appears a low pressure/storm system will intensify over the southern Rockies by Monday- moving across the Kansas City MetroRegion.
The image here is one of the model-run forecast periods for next Tuesday.
The blue lines are air temperatures (converted to degrees Fahrenheit) that shows the freezing line south of Kansas City and even colder air temperatures over the far northern portions of the MetroRegion.
The green shading indicates precipitation- snow- with the darker green area on this forecast map right over the Metro K.C. region.
Other forecast periods both before and after this map's forecast indicate snow could possibly begin in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning and continue in varying intensities until early Wednesday morning.
The Topeka NWS office are already indicating that "4 to 8-inches" of snow could occur in east-central Kansas Tuesday- and that amount can be extrapolated into Metro Kansas City.
Bear in mind this storm is still about 5 days away- with even a much-lesser snow chance here on Sunday with another weaker system.
This is just a heads-up for the early-next-week storm possibility- with updates here at CSW as needed with updates on the looming storm.
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