Sufficient sleep is essential for our health and well-being, but hotter nighttime temperatures are making it increasingly difficult for people to get adequate rest. In Columbia, residents lost nearly 34 hours of sleep annually from 2020 to 2025 due to high nighttime temperatures, according to a new analysis by Climate Central. Approximately 4 hours, or
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THIS AFTERNOON: Dangerously hot, with a heat index between 100 and 108 across the area. Air quality may decline to moderate levels, meaning those with asthma or other allergies could be affected. TONIGHT: Temperatures will be slow to cool overnight, remaining in the 80s through midnight. Lows fall to the 70s early tomorrow. EXTENDED: Brutal
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TONIGHT: Quiet and mild, with mostly clear skies and lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Hot and muggy, with a heat index around 100 degrees. A pop-up storm is possible, but almost everyone will stay dry. EXTENDED: A Heat Advisory will go into effect this weekend for parts of Mid-Missouri for a heat index around
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TONIGHT: Storms fizzle out after sunset, and skies remain partly cloudy. Lows fall to the low 70s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny, and hot and humid, with a heat index in the mid-90s. Isolated storms are possible, but almost everyone will stay dry. EXTENDED: The heat keeps rising this weekend, with a heat index near 100 degrees
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Millions of people from the Great Lakes to the East Coast are breathing hazy air this week, and the source is hundreds of miles away. Thick smoke from dozens of wildfires burning across Ontario and northern Minnesota is streaming into the U.S., pushing poor air quality into the Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for an estimated
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THIS AFTERNOON: Isolated storms are possible south of Hwy 50, with lots of dry time elsewhere. High temperatures climb to the upper 80s with a heat index in the low 90s. TONIGHT: Storms will fizzle out quickly after sunset, leaving skies mostly clear. Lows fall to the lower 70s. EXTENDED: More pop-up storms are possible
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Missouri’s top insurance regulator, Angela Nelson, is urging homeowners to understand their flood risk and insurance policies after a rare flash flood emergency last Friday, July 10, brought torrential rainfall and widespread flooding to parts of south-central Missouri. The emergency prompted significant rescue efforts in affected areas. Missouri’s geography, with its numerous rivers, makes the
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny and hot, with highs around 90 degrees. Humidity is more noticeable with dew points in the upper 60s. TONIGHT: Clear and mild overnight, with lows in the lower 70s. EXTENDED: The rest of the week is sunny and hot, but pop-up storms will be possible each afternoon from Wednesday through Friday. The
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Parts of Iron and Reynolds counties in southeastern Missouri experienced catastrophic flash flooding last Friday, July 10, following a one-in-1,000-year rainfall event. The Missouri National Guard used eight UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to evacuate more than 200 children and counselors who were stranded by floodwaters at Camp Taum Sauk in Lesterville. Task Force 1, the
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny and seasonable, with highs in the upper 80s. TONIGHT: Clear, with lows falling to the mid-60s. EXTENDED: It’ll be a long, hot week in Mid-MO with a historic heat dome to the north of the area, leaving us sunny and dry. Pop-up storms are possible on Wednesday and Thursday as this pattern
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TONIGHT: An ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day is in effect until midnight for strong to severe storms. Storms will weaken after sunset, but heavy rain continues in southern Missouri, with a Flood Watch in effect for Pulaski, Phelps, Miller, and Maries counties. Over 1 to 2 inches of rain is possible in these areas.
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THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny, with a high near 90 degrees. TONIGHT: Mostly clear and mild, with lows in the lower 70s. EXTENDED: Thursday is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day for the threat of strong storms producing damaging wind gusts in the evening. Scattered showers first arrive Thursday morning, which will impact our chance of
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and mild, with lows falling to the upper 60s. TOMORROW: Sunny and hot, with a high around 90 degrees. EXTENDED: Quiet weather continues through the middle of the week, but rain chances will return by Thursday as a front moves in from the north. Rain will be very scattered during the day,
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Mid-Missouri is still cleaning up after severe storms tore through the region on the Fourth of July, and a new damage survey shows just how powerful those winds really were. The National Weather Service reported Monday afternoon that it found evidence of straight-line winds up to 105 mph east of Jefferson City along the Missouri
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THIS AFTERNOON: Scattered clouds, with a pop-up storm possible south of I-70 in the midafternoon. Highs in the mid-80s. TONIGHT: Clouds mostly clear overnight, and temperatures fall to the upper 60s. EXTENDED: Warm and dry weather lasts through midweek, with highs in the mid-80s through Wednesday. Our next wave will move in on Thursday, and
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“If it’s hot, it’s hot,” says Tammy Adkins, a Community Wellness Nurse at Boone Health. “It gets cooler when the sun goes down, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not still dangerous.” Triple-digit heat is top of mind this Fourth of July, but the danger doesn’t end when the sun goes down. As you head
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THIS AFTERNOON: Another hot and humid day, with a heat index between 100 and 105 degrees. TONIGHT: Conditions remain warm and muggy overnight, with lows falling to the upper 70s. EXTENDED: Brutal heat continues into the weekend, with ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Days on Friday and Saturday for a heat index above 100 degrees.
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THIS AFTERNOON: Dangerously hot, with a heat index between 100 and 105 degrees and mostly sunny skies. TONIGHT: Warm and muggy, feeling like the 80s most of the night. Lows fall to the upper 70s. EXTENDED: The heat index will soar above 100 degrees each day through the Fourth of July, triggering a string of
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Heat is dominating most headlines this week, but parts of the Midwest could see vivid sunsets thanks to a weather pattern thousands of miles away in Africa. Strong winds lift massive amounts of dust off the Sahara Desert every year. They ride the trade winds across the Atlantic, sometimes covering three to five thousand miles,
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This week’s heat wave is doing more than just making people uncomfortable. The heat index, or what the air actually feels like when you combine temperature and humidity, is climbing past 105 degrees in some areas. That number is a critical threshold. Once the heat index crosses 105, the body’s natural cooling systems can start
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