Tonight will be clear and comfortable, lows will drop into the upper 50s and low 60s.
Thursday will be another summery day with highs in the 80s area-wide. Lakeside will be in the lower 80s, thanks to a southeast breeze, while inland areas will warm into the upper 80s. Skies will be sunny, yet slightly hazy due to some lingering wildfire smoke in the upper atmosphere. However, it appears this smoke will begin to thin out.
Then we look to our south as Hurricane Francine makes landfall across Louisiana Wednesday late afternoon. The storm will weaken as it tracks north up the Mississippi River, but stall and fizzle out south of St. Louis. That means most of the rain stays to our south and we only see increasing upper-level clouds filtering sunshine Friday into Saturday. Highs on both days will be near 80.
Some of the moisture from what is left of Francine might bring some small rain chances Sunday into Monday. The long-term forecast continues to favor above-average temperatures heading into the second half of September.
TONIGHT: ClearLow: 61
Wind: S 5 mph
THURSDAY: Sunny, Hazy, Clouds Late
High: 83 Lake, 87 Inland
Wind: SE 5-15 mph
FRIDAY: High Clouds- Filtered Sunshine
High: 80
SATURDAY: Mostly Cloudy
High: 79
SUNDAY: Iso. Showers; Mostly Cloudy
High: 82
MONDAY: Partly Cloudy, Spotty Shower
High: 81
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