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RAIN CHANCES: Model still wants to have an active week of weather ahead after a fairly dry end to the holiday weekend. However there is a chance of some showers and thunderstorms across the western third of the state today. These may move into the rest of the state during the overnight hours, other than that, the next chance of rain moves back in Tuesday and sticks around for the rest of the week. Temperatures will be seasonal with 80s likely during the day and lows in the 60s.

MID-JULY: Model shows a heat ridge at the end of next weekend which will end the rain threat but possibly bring the heat back into the state one week from now. This could be short-lived as a trough is projected by the middle of the following week across the eastern third of the country. That would put Iowa in a northwesterly flow aloft and bring some cooler Canadian air down which could be a refreshing change from the heat recently.