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KEY MESSAGES

- Mostly dry conditions are favored through the upcoming work week.

- Near to above-normal temperatures return by midweek.

- Better chances for thunderstorms return to the area Saturday night into next Sunday (MAYBE our next severe storm risk too?)

DISCUSSION

Issued at 213 PM CDT Sun Jun 14 2026

There will be a few opportunities for sprinkles or light rain showers this week, but widespread or "meaningful" rain is not expected. The 12Z global ensembles show a 60-90% chance for less than 0.10" of total rainfall through Friday.

The first opportunity for sprinkles will be tonight into Monday morning, followed by another opportunity for spotty showers and weak t-storms Monday night.

Temperatures will trend warmer through midweek (90s to low 100s on Wed). That said, humidity remains quite low through Wednesday, so heat index values should remain below 100 degrees for the entire area. A shortwave will move through the region on Wednesday, but the bulk of the rain/t-storms should remain to our east. This shortwave will bump temperatures down a bit for Thursday, but near to above- normal temperatures return for the weekend.

Ensembles continue to advertise reasonably high chances for rain/t-storms returning next weekend (June 20-21st) as a shortwave moves through the central/northern Plains. Of course, details remain pretty uncertain at this time range, this could feature at least some severe weather. The 00Z CSU-MLP severe probs have a 5% contour across much of the region on Saturday.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY/

Issued at 657 PM CDT Sun Jun 14 2026

For KGRI/KEAR Airports: - General overview: Extremely-high confidence in VFR ceiling/visibility throughout the period, with sky cover consisting of a mix of a mid-level ceiling (roughly 10K ft. AGL) mainly this evening...followed by only FEW/SCT mid-level clouds thereafter. Any spotty sprinkles/very light showers that might occur during the period should focus at least 50-75 miles south/southwest of KGRI/KEAR.

Winds will also be a minimal issue throughout the period. Sustained speeds the vast majority of the time will be at-or- below 8KT (downright light/variable direction overnight into early Mon AM). The "strongest" speeds arrive Monday afternoon out of the west-southwest...but even then we're only talking sustained mostly under 12KT/gusts mostly under 18KT.

GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

NE...None. KS...None.