Sunny and pleasent next two days, then increasing clouds with thunderstorms Thursday, some could be strong and produce heavy rain.

Regional Weather View.

A quiet and pleasant pattern will be in place for the Upper Midwest the next couple of days, it will bring dry sunny conditions and pleasant temperatures, before an approaching warm front will bring the chance for thunderstorms region wide for Thursday. Heavy rain may be a possibility across much of the region on Thursday. Severe weather may be a possibility by then as well.

Local weather view.

Locally A high pressure system will give us a couple of nice lawn mowing, and farming days Tuesday and Wednesday. Both days should bring us sun, pleasant temperatures and low humidies. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s, and lows in the upper 50s to low 60s. Thursday an approaching warm front will bring in increasing cloudiness and then eventually thunderstorm chances. The best chance for storms will be during the daylight afternoon hours, some of these storms could be strong and produce locally heavy rain. Highs will remain in the mid to upper 70s and lows in the low 60s Thursday due to more cloudiness.

Tuesday, Pleasant, less humid and sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Tuesday Night, Clear Skies, lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.

Wednesday, Nice & Sunny, Highs in the upper 70s. Wednesday Night, Partly Cloudy, lows in the low 60s.

Thursday, Increasing clouds with Daylight hour Thunderstorms, some of these storms could be strong and produce locally heavy rain, otherwise Partly Sunny with highs in the upper 70s. Thursday Night, A chance of lingering thunderstorms, otherwise cloudy, with lows in the low 60s.

Looking Ahead

It is clear that a well defined long lasting heat wave that has been showing in the models the past few weeks will push into the area starting Friday of this upcoming weekend, Hot conditions with highs in the upper 80s to 90 everyday along with Very humid conditions will stick around for quite a few days, lasting through the entire weekend into early next week. A few of those days, highs may approach the mid 90s in some areas, with hot night time lows not getting out of the 70s. The hot and humid conditions will last until at least Wednesday of next week, Also during afternoons during some of these hot and humid days thunderstorms will be possible, which could produce strong storms. It cools off with a cool front, bringing more thunderstorm chances Thursday and Friday the 21st to the 23rd. Then it remains season and dry for the 23rd to the 27th before more heat and humidity build back to the west which could bring us hot conditions for the start of August.