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KEY MESSAGES

- Comfortably mild and pleasant conditions are forecast for the next 7 days.

- Dry weather continues through the workweek, with rain chances returning to the forecast for Halloween weekend.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 147 AM CDT Sun Oct 25 2026

Upper-level ridging remains centered over the Quad State region today into early next week, while a large area of surface high pressure has firm control over the northeast. Highs will continue to be in the mid to upper 70s with lows around the mid-40s. Some early morning fog is possible near rivers and lakes.

Early week, a disturbance moving from the Front Range to the Northern Great Lakes will be well north of the Quad State region. A second large surface high migrates from its current position near Manitoba towards New England, reasserting high pressure to our east midweek. Surface winds locally will be light and generally out of the southeast, heavily influenced by the eastern high. A midweek disturbance is likely to increase high cloud coverage locally but keep precipitation northwest of the CWA. Temporarily slightly disrupting the ridge locally, ridging reforms for late week, keeping dry conditions forecast.

A trough digs into the western U.S. late week into next weekend. While the main trough axis is centered further west, a smaller scale negatively tilted trough crossing the Central Plains Saturday is likely to advance close enough to the Quad State to finally bring a chance of rain to the region. Inconveniently, this would be Halloween weekend so, once we move closer, we will need to monitor this system for timing issues. Temperatures, forecast to be several degrees above normal through the seven day forecast period, are also favored to be above normal in the 6-10 and 8-14 day outlooks. Completely dry conditions today through the workweek will give way to above normal precipitation being favored in the 6-10 day outlook.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z MONDAY/

Issued at 1045 PM CDT Sat Oct 24 2026

Satellite trends suggest a little better potential for fog formation across southeast Missouri and western Kentucky tonight. Widespread dense fog appears unlikely but ground fog, particularly near bodies of water appears likely through early this morning. Otherwise VFR conditions with light winds remains anticipated.

PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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