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Early This Morning: Partly cloudy. Northeast wind near 5 mph.
Today: Mostly sunny. High in the lower 80s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Low in the lower 60s. Southeast wind near 10 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny. High in the lower 80s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 70. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny. High in the upper 80s. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings 100 to 102 in the afternoon.                                                                        Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms through midnight…then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Low in the lower 70s. Chance of thunderstorms 40 percent.

Saturday: Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. High in the upper 80s.

Long-range forecasters say the overall trend of cooler, wetter weather will likely continue for the next several months, with some periods of hot and dry mixed in. Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center, says the regional climate outlook, going out just eight-to-14 days, shows the rest of July and into August will be on the warm side.

“The eight-to-14 is showing temperatures being above normal during this time,” Fuchs says, “and when you couple that with the precipitation, it does look like after the next seven-day period, it is looking like the potential for drier-than-normal conditions from the Ohio River Valley into the Midwest.”

Fuchs says the trend from late summer into fall looks to be more of what we have seen most of the first half of the year.  “If you look at the probabilities of seeing above-normal precipitation, that starts out in the Southwest and continues into the Central Rockies out onto the Plains and catching part of the Midwest,” Fuchs says. “That’s also associated with temperatures being below normal.”

With a very strong El Nino weather pattern developing in the Pacific Ocean, Fuchs says the winter outlook is trending toward less snow and cold for most of the country’s northern half. “We’re seeing those warmer-than-normal temperature probabilities staying in place from the Pacific Northwest through the Northern Plains,” he says, “and the below-normal temperature probabilities from the Southern Plains through the Southeast continue as well.”

Fuchs says the El Nino is now trending up and could be one of the strongest ever recorded. The National Drought Mitigation Center is based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Early This Morning: Mostly clear. Cooler. North wind near 10 mph.
Today: Sunny. High around 80. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low in the upper 50s. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High around 80. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Low in the lower 60s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny. High in the lower 80s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 70.
Friday: Partly sunny. High in the upper 80s.

828 AM CDT MON JUL 20 2015

…STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS OVER CENTRAL IOWA…

AT 824 AM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WIND ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOWRIE TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF IRWIN…AND MOVING EAST AT  35 MPH. WINDS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS OF 38 MPH WERE OBSERVED ALONG HIGHWAY 30 NEAR CARROLL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
BOONE…JEFFERSON…AUDUBON…OGDEN…COON RAPIDS…LAKE PANORAMA…
BOONE SPEEDWAY…EXIRA…GRAND JUNCTION…ELK HORN…SCRANTON…
BAYARD…KIMBALLTON…BAGLEY…RIPPEY…DEDHAM…YALE…PATON…
JAMAICA AND BOXHOLM.

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405 AM CDT MON JUL 20 2015

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON…THEN MOSTLY SUNNY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHWEST WIND AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. COOLER. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 80. NORTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S.

807 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON…THEN MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. WEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 30 PERCENT.

TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 80.

500 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

EARLY THIS MORNING...PARTLY CLOUDY. NORTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON…THEN MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. WEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 30 PERCENT.

MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 80.