TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with light rain through late evening. Lows in the mid-30s. TOMORROW: Morning clouds with afternoon sun returning. Highs in the lower 40s. EXTENDED: I’m tracking a cloudy night with spotty showers developing in the next couple of hours and continuing into the overnight hours before pressing east. Rain amounts will likely be
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TODAY: Tuesday is mostly dry, and mild. South winds bring temperatures into the 50s by the afternoon. Scattered light showers return around the dinner hour and exit by morning. TONIGHT: Scattered rain will bring a few hundredths of an inch of rain at most, and wrap up shortly after midnight. Temperatures likely remain int the
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TODAY: Tuesday is mostly dry, and mild. South winds bring temperatures into the 50s by the afternoon. Scattered light showers return around the dinner hour and exit by morning. TONIGHT: Scattered rain will bring a few hundredths of an inch of rain at most, and wrap up shortly after midnight. Temperatures likely remain int the
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the lower 30s. TOMORROW: Increasing clouds with mild temperatures in the lower 50s. EXTENDED: Tonight will be cooler as we can expect clear skies, but warmer than average in the low 30s. Tomorrow looks mild yet again with a southeast breeze, although likely a couple degrees cooler. Clouds pick
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THIS AFTERNOON: Bright and sunny with highs in the mid-50s. Gusty winds up to 20-25 mph. TONIGHT: Mostly clear and colder with lows in the lower 30s. EXTENDED: Clear skies are expected following this morning’s cold front, leaving us with a cool start to Tuesday. Winds pick up again from the south with highs back
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TODAY: Showers and thunderstorms this morning will bring a wet start to some. A quick passing shower will be possible for most, but after that, the best chance for any continued precipitation will be largely confined south of HWY 50. Lightning and thunder will be the extent of the strength of these storms. Temperatures will
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TONIGHT: Spotty to scattered showers late, especially south of I-70. Fog developing overnight with temperatures holding steady around 50. TOMORROW: Decreasing clouds with highs in the lower 50s. EXTENDED: As winds begin to pick up from the southeast overnight, temperatures don’t drop much as a few showers develop to our south and spread north through
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The National Weather Service in Springfield on Sunday confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down in far eastern Benton County, near the border with Morgan County on the northwestern side of the Lake of the Ozarks. The severe thunderstorm produced enough rotation for a weak tornado to form at around 3:41 p.m. The tornado developed to
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TODAY: Clouds in the morning with patchy drizzle possible. Sunshine briefly returns in the afternoon. Temperatures reach the 50s for most, while northern Missouri is a tad cooler in the upper 40s. TONIGHT: Light rain is possible across eastern Mid-MO overnight into early Monday. This quickly moves through from roughly 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.,
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking the last of the rainfall exiting the region with one more shot at running into an isolated storm before sundown. Temperatures will drop into the upper 30s by the end of the night and winds will be out of the southwest at 6-8 mph. TOMORROW: I’m tracking a break in cloud cover
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TODAY: Widespread showers last through noon with a few isolated rumbles of thunder. Rain becomes lighter in the afternoon and evening with totals reaching over an inch in many spots. Temperatures reach the 40s despite the rain and clouds. TOMORROW: Sunday dries out with some peeks at sunshine through the afternoon. Temperatures remain cool in
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking rain moving in from the west throughout the evening, with brief showers in Columbia becoming possible by 8-10 pm. Rain will become more consistent throughout the early morning hours as it moves north, with a slight chance to see freezing rain near Macon county. If this does occur, impacts will not last
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As temperatures continue to drop to near or below freezing, several types of winter precipitation have started to appear in forecasts. Predicting different types of precipitation requires a detailed analysis of the atmosphere from top to bottom and a steady process of increasing confidence. Precipitation type is determined by the temperature of the atmosphere at
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THIS AFTERNOON: Temperatures remain cold in the 30s for most of the area with only our far southern counties reaching the low 40s. Cloud cover fills in but rain chances remain low until late this evening. TONIGHT: Light rain may begin in western Missouri by sundown but the better rain chance holds off until midnight
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TODAY: Friday brings more warmth to the region as a warm front slowly moves into the region. Despite this, winds are largely easterly, if not south easterly. The arrival of south winds to the south of the warm front will be later into the overnight. This keeps highs in the low 40s near Columbia, and
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TONIGHT: Overnight lows cool into the lower 20s as skies remain partly cloudy. Winds remain out of the southwest at 8-12 mph and gusts up to 18 mph. TOMORROW: Friday welcomes mostly cloudy skies and late evening rain chances. Highs top out into the mid-40s. EXTENDED: Showers become widespread late Friday night lasting through much
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While wildfires may be far from our minds during the chilly and snowy wintertime, other parts of the country have been dry this season. That has fueled huge fires out west in California with the Franklin Fire threatening the seaside resort city of Malibu in recent days. The forecast is expected to improve, though. Dry
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THIS AFTERNOON: Temperatures will be cold north of I-70 today remaining near or below freezing while those to the south reach the 40s. Clouds will mostly linger in the north today with light snow flurries possible in northern Missouri. TONIGHT: Lows plummet well below freezing areawide with many spots in the teens. The wind chill
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TODAY: Thursday is partly cloudy and cold, at least at first. Temperatures this morning falling into the teens, with wind chills a few degrees cooler amid a light east breeze. A warm front moving in tonight may arrive soon enough to climb temperatures into the 50s along I-44, while highs only reach mid-to-upper 30s in
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As the average highs continue to cool and the chance of snow increases heading deeper into the winter months, coyote sightings might be more typical. Many hunters across the state look to take advantage of this increased activity, and paying attention to the weather can help their chance of a harvest this year. Courtesy of
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