Tracking rain overnight into tomorrow, warm and windy Monday

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with showers moving in late. Lows in the upper 40s. Breezy with south wind gusts up to 30 mph.

TOMORROW: Showers through about midday, with a few embedded thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 60s. Gusty south winds up to 30-35 mph.

EXTENDED: Clouds have started to roll in ahead of a warm front that will bring temperatures into the low 60s tomorrow and showers before daybreak. Most of the rain will fall in our area by midday, but there could be a couple isolated thunderstorms that pop up along the cold front by mid-late afternoon, generally east of Highway 54. Any severe threat stays to our east across Illinois and eastern Iowa. We'll be quite windy all day with gusts up to 30-25 mph, helping those temperatures get so warm. Behind the front, we cool down to about 50 on Tuesday. Another low pressure system is expected to move in from the west between Wednesday and Thursday, bringing more widespread rain to Mid-Missouri. The latest forecast guidance has this tracking a bit farther north, taking that rain/snow line almost to the Missouri-Iowa border, lessening chances for wintry precipitation in our area Thursday morning. It will be colder behind that front as we drop into the lower 30s by Thursday morning with highs getting into the upper 30s to around 40 on Thursday. We'll end the week dry and chilly on Friday, with another shot at rain potentially by Sunday. Rain amounts will be in the 1-1.5" range over the 7-day period, with the most coverage being on Wednesday.