TODAY: Sunny and warm with highs around 80 degrees. Winds will be light and variable. TONIGHT: Conditions remain quiet overnight, with lows falling to the 50s. EXTENDED: Saturday starts cool and comfortable for the homecoming parade in downtown Columbia. Tailgating will be warm as afternoon highs climb into the low-to-mid 80s. Kickoff will still be
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TODAY: Friday is another bright day, with a bit warmer temperatures expected. A light southwest, but at times variable wind will be enough of a change from yesterday’s north flow to return us to the low 80s. TONIGHT: Skies remain clear overnight, and with light winds we can expect temperatures to again fall into the
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool with patchy fog in low lying areas. Lows in the lower to mid-50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and mild with highs near 80. EXTENDED: Lows fall into the low to mid-50s with some patchy fog, especially in low lying areas or river valleys. We’ll reach to near 80 by tomorrow afternoon.
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Drought has spread rapidly across Missouri in recent months, now covering over half of the state as fall gets underway. It was a much different picture just two months ago, when the region was fully drought-free for the first time in years in late July. Then came a record-dry August and a drier-than-normal September, which
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TODAY: We’re expecting increasing sunshine after a few instances of fog and low clouds this morning. Mostly sunny skies and north winds keep us nestled in the 70s this afternoon. TONIGHT: Clear skies drop us into the low 50s overnight, it may be chilly late in the evening. EXTENDED: After a jacket-worthy start on Friday
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy early with scattered showers and a few storms before midnight. Gradual clearing with lows in the mid-upper 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and comfortable with a light north breeze. Highs in the upper 70s. EXTENDED: Scattered showers and a few storms will be possible south of I-70 through late tonight, with clouds gradually
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Changes in tree colors and leaves starting to fall have already been noticed in much of the state, but this is much earlier than the seasonal average. Over the past 20-30 years, the seasonal average for the peak of fall foliage in the state of Missouri is mid- to late October. There are still a
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THIS AFTERNOON: Mostly cloudy and soggy with temperatures in the low 70s. Scattered showers and storms are possible throughout the day, but lightning should be isolated. TONIGHT: Storms taper off after sunset, with rain likely ending by midnight. Skies become mostly clear by Thursday morning with lows in the 50s. EXTENDED: Dry weather settles in
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TODAY: Rain continues Wednesday, but in a much lighter and more sporadic manner. Gone is the widespread soaking rain. We are trading that for more hit and miss sprinkles to light rainfall most of the day. This and cloud cover keeps us from climbing out of the low 70s this afternoon. We should see a
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TODAY: Rain chances grow by mid-morning from west to east. A part of an approaching low, scattered thunderstorms will overspread the region. Lightning and thunder will be present, but no severe weather is expected. Widespread moderate and locally heavy rainfall will lead to a chance for ponding on roadways to limited flooding, especially in the
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy with patchy fog developing late. Lows in the lower to mid-60s. TOMORROW: Morning fog with rain and storms moving in by late morning. 1-1.5″ of rain possible through Tuesday night. Highs in the mid-70s. EXTENDED: We’ll see fog developing by daybreak, especially east of Highway 63 ahead of rain that will move
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Although rainfall over the past couple of days in Missouri has aided slightly in lessening dry conditions in the state, drought is still persisting through the majority of the area. As of September 18th, when the last drought monitor was released, areas to the south of I-70 are seeing the most impacts. A moderate drought
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TODAY: I’m tracking isolated storms possible through the rest of the day, but the majority of Central Missouri will be staying dry as temperatures warm into the low 80s by the afternoon hours. Winds will be out of the southwest at 5-10 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking showers and storms moving in from the south throughout
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TODAY: Monday is largely dry, with a few showers in the east this morning, and a slim chance for pop up storms this afternoon in the south and east this afternoon. The vast majority will stay dry, with increasing sunshine through the day, and a high just near 80 degrees. TONIGHT: Overnight, dry weather continues,
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TONIGHT: Scattered showers and storms with lows in the lower 60s. Rain amounts around 0.5″ to 1″. TOMORROW: Rain exiting to the southeast fairly early, becoming partly sunny with highs in the upper 70s to around 80. EXTENDED: As a slow moving low pressure system works across the Great Lakes region, rounds of rain and
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TODAY: Partly sunny in the morning, with cloud cover increasing through the day. Highs reach the low 80s in the early afternoon. Rain chances increase after 3 or 4 p.m., with scattered to widespread storms into the evening and overnight. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy and mild with a high of 80 degrees. Spotty showers are possible
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking isolated showers and storms possible throughout the rest of the evening. Temperatures will drop into the low 60s by the end of the night as winds blow out of the southwest 5-8 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking isolated showers possible in the morning and early afternoon with more widespread storms arriving during the
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TODAY: Partly to mostly cloudy, with temperatures warming to the low 80s this afternoon. Scattered showers are possible in the morning, followed by spotty storms in the afternoon and evening. Storms are possible during tailgating and game time, but there is a chance for the game to stay completely dry. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and mild
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The weather has been fairly quiet in recent weeks, coming out of a record-dry August. But Thursday night’s storms served as a reminder of the potential for severe weather in the fall. Stronger storms were anticipated during the day on Thursday, but this potential would increase as the forecast got closer. The Storm Prediction Center
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking a slightly more dry rest of the evening after pop up storms exit the region. The sky will begin to clear as temperatures drop into the low 60s by the end of the night and winds shift into the west at 5-10 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking temperatures warming into the mid 80s
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