I'm from Kansas City, on the Missouri side so I'm pretty familiar with Kansas. Kansas is just so flat and windy, same with Oklahoma and Nebraska trust me the constant gusts of wind makes live unbearable at times. However, people in Kansas and the rest of the western have turned into dour, nasty people. At least Kansas can say they've always been this way.
Missouri has rolling hills which slow the wind down considerably but still, it's Midwest weather which means wild 4 seasons of bad weather. Winter really seems to start right after Halloween the temps often under freezing until late March. April and May are warmer but often a lot of rain and wind. Once June hits you get the heat along with high humidity and then some days it rains for 2 days nonstop. September and October are really the only nice weather months in the Midwest.
It was fun growing up through all that bad weather, running through the neighborhood freezing cold barely making it back home lol. Good times. Years later I was living in Oklahoma City, a friend called me up and said his brother was near, parked on the side of the highway doing his homework in his car because he was also chasing tornado's. This was years before the movie Twister came out.