Tracking rain chances for all, Wednesday evening
TODAY: With high pressure overhead this morning, moisture has been pushed south of mid-Missouri. Some high clouds are suspended over most of mid-MO, allowing many to cool into the 30s and 20s, but thicker and lower cloud cover in the southern half of mid-Missouri has kept some in the 40s at the time of this writing. Temperatures will warm fairly uniformly through the afternoon today, back into the mid-40s. Showers that sit just to our south this morning, will march northward, arriving as far north as Columbia and Boonville by late morning, and reaching Macon by the mid-afternoon. Showers will be light to moderate at times and fairly widespread, meaning everyone will have a chance at rain by the evening.
TONIGHT: Rain continues overnight, with temperatures warming into the overnight as the warm sector of this system moves through overnight. Temperatures will reach near 50 overnight, before it pushes away, and allows cold air to wrap in on the back side. This will begin to mix snowflakes in with the rain as the moisture leaves early Thursday morning. It's possible we see a slushy trace north and west of Columbia, so give yourself time to deal with a minor nuisance in terms of travel impacts, but chances are good that we avoid even that much impact.
EXTENDED: Thursday sees more sunshine through midday as the aforementioned system exits, and clouds break leaving us with afternoon highs in the mid-40s. This is short lived, as clouds return in the evening, ahead a more quickly passing disturbance. Temperatures may favor a dusting of snow as this wave passes overnight Thursday into Friday. Friday is mostly dry after this, but we're cold with highs in the 30s. Warmth returns to place us in the mid-40s Saturday, and mid-50s Sunday under sunny conditions both days. Rain chances build back in late Monday into Tuesday as another surface low pressure looks to take shape across the Midwest.
