Still no major changes made to the forecast. The current rain system will finish up in the southern Midwest in the next 24 hours, with another to impact most of the region for later in the weekend and Monday and yet another by about Wed/Thur of next week. Temps will be falling to below average today and look to stay there into early next week, with a brief warm up next Tue/Wed and then some very chilly air after that.

Rains will continue to fall across the southern ½ of MO, IL and the southern 2/3rds of IN and OH today and tonight with the current system. The rest of the region will see dry weather occur today, along with cooler temps and by tomorrow most of the Midwest will be dry, with the exceptions being down in southern MO and the OH River Valley where some scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will be possible.

The next rain event will arrive in the west as we head through the day on Saturday and then work east for Sunday and early Monday.

Temps today will be cooling across the Midwest today and tun below average for tomorrow and the weekend. Highs look to be running in the low 50’s in the Northwoods, with mid to upper 50’s in the rest of MN, WI and MI and then low to mid 60’s elsewhere.

The rains with the late weekend event will be ending in the west by later Sunday and then in the east as we head through the day on Monday. It may even be cold enough on the back side of the low to allow the rains to briefly change over to some snow across portions of northern MN and the western UP before the precip ends. However little more than a coating of wet snow is likely at this point.

Another brief period of dry weather looks to occur later Monday and into Tuesday of next week, but by Wednesday and Thursday it looks like yet another system will be working into the Midwest and producing chances for more showers and storms. It even looks like some scattered showers could continue into Friday and the following weekend next week, as the upper air portion to the midweek storm is indicated to park itself across the Midwest later next week and into the weekend and even intensify a bit.

Temps will remain below average for Monday, with some warming to occur for Tue and Wed, but then more below average temps look to build in by the second half of the week and into the following weekend and high temps by that period might only be in the upper 40’s to upper 50’s across the region.