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KEY MESSAGES

- Pleasantly cooler and less humid conditions continue through Friday morning.

- A chance of storms returns heading into the weekend.

- Heat headline numbers reappear early next week as hot and humid weather goes on blast.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1215 AM CDT Thu Jul 23 2026

High pressure slides across the Great Lakes into the Upper Ohio Valley by week's end. This keeps a nice, cool northeasterly fetch here, providing lower dew points and temperatures through Friday; comfortably pleasant, especially for this time of year.

With the high's eastward shift, we get into return flow southerlies that bring our next chance of showers/storms heading into the weekend. Locally heavy downpours look to be the main expectation at this writing, as PW's push 2".

Upper level ridging takes over early next week, returning steamy heat that pushes headline numbers with triple digit heat indices and air temperatures approaching the century mark Monday and Tuesday.

AVIATION /12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY/

Issued at 1215 AM CDT Thu Jul 23 2026

SCT-BKN mid or high level base potential exists within the confines of a VFR forecast under high pressure's influence. Light northeast winds funnel around the high, which shifts eastward from the Great Lakes into the Upper Ohio Valley over the course of the forecast package.

PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

IL...None. MO...None. IN...None. KY...None.

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