Tracking a cold and wet weekend
TODAY: Clouds are breaking up for parts of the area this afternoon, but this will do little to help temperatures. Highs manage the low 40s with a steady northerly breeze.
TONIGHT: Temperatures will drop to near freezing overnight, with cloud cover filling back in ahead of a disturbance Saturday.
EXTENDED: Showers will begin by early morning Saturday, possibly mixing with wet snow briefly if precip arrives early enough. However, temperatures steadily warm through rainfall tomorrow, keeping wintry impacts very low. About a quarter of an inch of rainfall at most is expected, with only trace snow amounts in far northern Missouri. Dry air returns Sunday, along with a chance at more sunshine. That chance grows early next week with high pressure moving in, but temperatures are cool all the way through Tuesday. On the horizon, a low pressure system looms across the midwest late in the workweek. This has a lot of uncertainty surrounding it, but it looks likely that we'll be warming up slightly as it approaches.