Tracking some brief dry time today

TODAY: Friday is a brighter and drier day with partly cloudy skies. Highs reach the mid-70s.

TONIGHT: Winds will shift more southeasterly overnight, and lingering clouds will keep lows near 60.

EXTENDED: Rain chances return on Saturday as a quick-moving cold front brings a line of thunderstorms through from late morning to early afternoon. There's a possibility of an isolated strong storm or two within this line with our main concerns being high winds and hail. Highs are still in the 70s both Saturday and Sunday, and showers and thunderstorms may return by the end of the weekend in southern Missouri. Monday brings back the heat as temperatures climb into the 80s ahead of another round of thunderstorms. Some strong storms look possible Monday night, with rain chances lasting into Tuesday. Rain still lingers into Wednesday, until drier and cooler weather puts us in the 70s by the end of next week.