Tracking a hot and humid 4th of July with a few storms this weekend

TONIGHT: Mostly clear and muggy with lows near 70.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: Mostly sunny, hot, and humid with highs in the lower 90s. Heat index reaching the mid-upper 90s.

EXTENDED: High pressure continues to hold across the region with temperatures reaching to the low 90s by Friday afternoon, with a heat index in the upper 90s. We'll continue to be dry for fireworks displays, with temperatures in the low 80s after sunset. We could see a few pop up storms on Saturday afternoon as upper disturbances move through, but a better shot on Sunday as a slow moving cold front stalls out across Mid-Missouri. This will cool temperatures down to the mid-80s on Sunday afternoon. Rain chances continue off and on into next week as this front looks to hang across the region and upper flow shifts back to the northwest. That pattern shift will keep temperatures a bit cooler near our seasonal average in the mid-upper 80s.