Memorial Day 2022 was good one. A brisk SW wind and temperatures in the upper 80s to near 90 made for a warm end to the holiday weekend. The toasty temperatures surged north ahead of a strong late May storm ejecting out of the Plains. You can see the deep trough situated over the Rockies pumping heat and moisture into the Midwest. It's cold to the west. It's also allowed a strong low pressure to ratchet up over eastern South Dakota. Significant severe weather battered parts o

We've gotten the summertime warmth and humidity and now we've got some storms to talk about. Some parts of Iowa have had some early morning thunderstorms over the weekend, but the higher chances come during the work week. Memorial Day itself will be mostly dry, hot, humid, and a bit breezy. Humidity once again will be in the sticky gross range: Winds will be gusting out of the south around 30 to 35 mph. And then in the afternoon the first round of storms arrives. Those storms

The warmth will continue to grow through the remainder of Memorial Day weekend. There will be plenty of sunshine on Sunday with temperatures climbing well into the 80s: It will be more humid with dew points in the sticky range: One thing that may help with the heat, but also may be a bit of a nuisance, will be a south breeze that may gust as high as 30-35 mph: There will be the chance for storms on Sunday, but primarily well west of the local area in the Dakotas, Nebraska and

For the last week temperatures have generally been running below normal. It's been cool, it's been kinda crappy outside. In fact, you can see just how far from normal we've been here: We've been stuck in this northwest flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Most recently due to a storm system moving through: As the storm departed we had a lovely day Friday. Temperatures in the 70s, sunshine, low humidity. Now a ridge of high pressure will move in, ushering in warmth and

We had another day of showers and thunderstorms and now it's time for a break. High pressure is on the way in behind this storm system and that will usher in a calm finish to the week: With plenty of sunshine temperatures will climb into the 60s and 70s Friday afternoon: Drier air will move in and humidity levels will be noticeably lower: We'll experience some much warmer conditions as the storm system departs: The trough pulls away and a ridge builds in through the weekend: