Tracking minimal chances of rain, and relief from the heat

TODAY: Tuesday brings more sunshine than Monday. Skies are starting clear, and will stay that way through the day. This will allow for temperatures to warm quickly today, perhaps a little warmer than yesterday. Despite temperatures being similar to Monday, dewpoints will be a tick lower, lending to a slightly cooler feeling day. Still, with a heat index of low triple digits, Tuesday afternoon will continue our trend of dangerous heat.

TONIGHT: Skies remain clear for the evening, before high clouds move in overnight into early Wednesday. Little impact is had on temperatures, as we'll stay in the middle to upper 70s through sunrise.

EXTENDED: Wednesday, we'll see some of those high clouds through the day, but overall, mostly sunny skies stick around. Not much change happens with temperature or dew point, leading to only a minor variation in heat index. Expect another day with temperatures feeling like 100 to 103. Wednesday night, a cold front will try it's best to push into mid-Missouri. This brings a chance for strong but decaying thunderstorms into our region overnight into Thursday. Ultimately, the front looks to stall as it fights the strong high pressure system situated overhead. This stalled front will meander throughout the day Thursday, becoming more tilted from the northwest to southeast. Temperatures still climb back into the mid 90s. This may provide a gradient of ingredients that may guide another storm system into mid-Missouri by late Thursday night. Both of these rain chances are low confidence events at the moment, and seem to be conditional on several factors. Still, the overall pattern looks to bring some heat relief (upper 80s to low 90s) into the weekend, as this high pressure continues to shift back westward. Heat looks to build back next week, with this upper level high pressure only temporarily shifting westward.