Tracking a warm and windy Monday ahead of strong storms

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and breezy with highs in the upper 50s.

TOMORROW: Partly sunny and breezy with wind gusts up to 30 mph. Highs reach the mid-upper 80s.

EXTENDED: Clouds remain this evening as low pressure sticks around to our west. Temperatures remain somewhat mild overnight and skies begin to break up a bit into Monday. Strong south/southwest winds could gust to 30 mph during the day, sending high temperatures into the mid-upper 80s. Tomorrow is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Alert Day for the potential of severe storms that could develop by late evening ahead of and along a cold front that will be bringing severe weather to our north and west during the day. Storms will have the potential of producing large hail and damaging winds, and the tornado threat is low, but not zero. Storms will begin to settle to the south on Tuesday as the front stalls out near I-44. The severe threat on Tuesday will be highest for Mid-Missouri early in the morning, then likely shift to our south by afternoon into the evening. However, that front looks to slowly drift back in our direction through the end of the week, leaving us with the potential for more rounds of rain and storms through late in the week. Rain amounts through the week's end could range from 2-3" area wide.