Regional weather view.

A warmer more active pattern is developing for the Upper Midwest this week as a system pushes across Minnesota and Wisconsin. As this low pressure and cold front moves across the northern part of the area, hot air will be drawn northward bringing widespread low to mid 90s in Nebraska, Iowa, Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin and well as Illinois. Rain will develop on the systems stationary front and cold front mainly staying in North Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Another system will push into the region this weekend keeping warm air around and rainfall chances on Saturday and Sunday.

Local and Metro views.

Tomorrow for the area it will be hot, sunny and breezy during the daylight hours. Highs will be around the upper 80s to lower 90s. Lows will be warm in the upper 60s. There is a chance of rain tomorrow but the rain and thunderstorms will develop to the northwest of the area Thursday afternoon and push in after 6pm. A few of the storms could be strong. Rainfall amounts will rang to 0.25″ up to localized areas of 0.60″ or more. Friday will be more of the same for highs but it will be more humid as dewpoints rise. After a chance of morning storms. Skies will clear and highs will be back into the upper 80s to lower 90s and lows in the upper 60s. Saturday will still be on the warm side in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s. There is a chance of thunderstorms developing in the evening and overnight hours as a cold front pushes through. Rainfall amounts will be around 0.25 localized up to 0.50 These storms are not expected to be severe. This will give way to clearing skies Sunday and Monday with more seasonable and drier. It will be sunny with highs in the low to mid 80s and lows in the low to mid 60s.

Thursday, Sunny, hot and breezy Highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. Winds gusting to 25MPH Thursday Night, Thunderstorms pushing in. Some could be strong. Lows in the mid to upper 60s.

Friday, Hot and humid, Cloudy with a chance of storms earlier then clearing skies and breezy with highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Winds gusting to 25MPH Friday. Clear skies lows in the mid to upper 60s

Saturday, Sunny and very warm. Chance of thunderstorms late in the day. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Saturday Night, Thunderstorms pushing in. Lows in the low to mid 60s.

Sunday, Less humid. Sunny skies highs in the low to mid 80s. Sunday Night, Clear skies lows in the low to mid 60s.

Monday, Sunny skies. Highs in the low to mid 80s. Monday Night, Clear skies lows in the low to mid 60s.

Looking Ahead

The middle to ending of next week looks warm and dry. Highs look to be on the very warm side into the next weekend. Highs will probably commonly be around the upper 80s to 90. Late Saturday the 1st of September is our next chance of rain. A storm system will push across southern Minnesota, North Iowa and Wisconsin bringing widespread rains. Sunday the 2nd looks cooler and sunny.  Then as warmer air tries to make a come back storm systems will bring chances of rain off and on to the northern parts of the upper Midwest. So to sum up the long term I see periods where we are wet and periods where we are dry.