Today: Partly cloudy in the western one-third, mostly sunny elsewhere. Above average temperatures in the low-to-mid 80s west to low-to-mid 70s east. Winds 7-10 MPH increasing to 15 MPH by afternoon, gusting to 25 MPH. Winds will be highest in the northwest. Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms increasing from northwest-to-southeast throughout the night. Mostly cloudy northwest …

A cool day is ahead for those headed out to the college football games today. The UNI game will be wonderful as it’s indoors, however the annual Iowa State vs Iowa game at Jack Trice Stadium this year will include the classic fall weather. Skies will be partly-to-mostly sunny for the majority of the day with highs ranging from the low 40s early in the morning to the mid 60s by afternoon. Winds will not help matters, out of the north-to-northwest from 5 to 10 MPH.

Enjoy your Saturday!

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch or Tornado Watch is possible for portions of south central and southeastern Nebraska, north central and northeastern Kansas, far southwestern Iowa, and northwestern Missouri for this afternoon.

After the very 2015-like significant rainfall that we had last night that triggered flash flooding across much of central Iowa, another round of heavy rainfall is on tap for the same areas. The National Weather Service has a Flash Flood Watch for much of central and southern Iowa from 7:00 p.m. tonight through 7:00 a.m. …

A cold front positioned across Minnesota and Iowa will be the stage for scattered thunderstorm development later today across the region. Ahead of this cold front will be a favorable environment for severe weather, including a moisture-rich atmosphere with dew points in the 60s and 70s leading to moderate-to-strong instability, weak-to-moderate shear, and frontogenetic forcing. Scattered …

TODAY: Dense Fog Advisory until 8:00 a.m. for much of the southeastern one-fourth of the state. Mostly-to-partly sunny, high temperatures ranging in the mid 80s. Winds out of the north at 10-15 MPH, gusting to 30 MPH.

The broad-scale weather pattern over the midwest through the next few days will be dominated by an upper-level ridge building into the western US. High pressure will build into the midwest as a current low pressure system exits to the east over the Great Lakes. This will keep temperatures cool through mid-week before things return to about …

A beautiful and cool day ahead for those of you heading out to the final day of the Iowa State Fair today. Skies will be partly cloudy early before clearing out to completely Sunny skies. Temperatures, as noted, will be brisk – struggling to reach 70° for the day and a 15-20 MPH sustained wind …

Thunderstorms, including a few longer-lived supercells, are expected to form over eastern Nebraska and western Iowa over the next few hours. These storms may produce a few tornadoes, in addition to very large hail and locally damaging wind, as they move/develop generally eastward. The storms likely will be joined by additional activity forming southward into …