Why Mid-Missouri and the Midwest have seen such cooler temperatures recently

It's no shock that it's been a cooler Memorial Day weekend across much of the Midwest, and we've seen temperatures a lot of times only reaching back towards the mid to upper 60s .

When taking a look at the temperatures seen this afternoon, the eastern side of the United States was cooler than the western side. That's actually all due to a location of a high pressure system.

With the location of this upper-level high pressure system overhead and a low just off the east coast, we're seeing winds continuously back out of the east northeast.

This means they are originating from the Great Lake region, which means that we're getting a cooler wind profile back towards Mid-Missouri. The high pressure system has stayed put causing a blocking pattern by not moving, keeping the low pressure system just off to the east coast in place, fueling these cooler winds.

When looking a little bit deeper into this upcoming second half of the week, we're going to notice this high pressure system starts to break down and pushes back off to the east, and that's gonna allow some changing weather conditions and eventually some warmer temperatures to pull back into Mid-Missouri. As we head towards the second half of the week, you'll start to feel a slight warm-up as winds return predominately out of the southwest in the lower levels of the jet stream. This will cause temperatures to return towards the 80 degree mark into next weekend.