Tracking dangerous heat and more rain chances through Thursday

TODAY: Wednesday is another ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day as dangerous heat continues to bake the region. We expect highs in the upper 90s, if not near 100. With present humidity, we'll feel like 110. Storms in Iowa this morning are also of concern, but we're tracking it mostly east of mid-Missouri. We'll have a chance for storms from around 6 a.m. through noon from Macon to Montgomery counties, but the chances are low as the core of this activity will track along the Mississippi River. It is not a favored solution in computer guidance, but we should expect at least a small chance for outflow from morning storms to kick up other storms in the region. We'll otherwise be mostly dry today, under partly cloudy skies.

TONIGHT: Warm temperatures stick around overnight, with mostly clear skies early. Rain may be a possibility before sunrise Thursday. Lows fall into the upper 70s by sunrise.

EXTENDED: On Thursday morning we will have a cold front nudging into the region. This will bring scattered showers and weak storms. Rain may linger through the first half of the day along and north of I-70, before storms fire south of the front, and south of I-70, Thursday afternoon. It will take time for us to cool down, with heat and humidity making a slow exit, so expect dangerous heat to continue our Weather Alert Day one more afternoon. Friday looks more tolerable, and drier. We'll have clear skies and highs in the low 90s Friday through Monday, with a few extra clouds showing up by Tuesday as temperatures start to climb again early next week.