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A few showers will enter southwest counties this afternoon, but many locations stay dry and cool. Showers will be most numerous in the western half of the state Tuesday morning, then we’ll have a band of heavier rain and storms work west to east from mid-afternoon west to early evening east. The southern counties will have the risk of damaging wind gusts, but a lot of the severe activity will focus in Missouri.
Tuesday will be a very windy day. Sustained winds of 20-30mph with gusts up 45-50mph. Remaining quite breezy for Wednesday, but the wind will be notably lighter compared to Tuesday.
Here’s the rainfall forecast through Tuesday night: Lowest amounts north and east, heaviest west and south.
We’ll turn dry Wednesday as temperatures will surge back to the 70s. We catch a mid-week break with the bulk of our rain/storm risks returning Thursday evening into Friday morning, then we see off/on additional rounds through the weekend. Here’s how rain stacks up over the next 7 days.
Temperature/precipitation charts over the next 10 days:
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