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KEY MESSAGES

- Cold temperatures and generally dry weather will persist through the week into the weekend.

- Some light snow or flurries possible late Thursday into Thursday night. Little or no accumulation expected at this time.

- Bitterly cold again Friday night into Saturday morning. Lows in the single digits and wind chills in the single digits to teens below zero.

- Warm up starts next week.

SHORT TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/

Issued at 142 PM CST Wed Jan 28 2026

Water vapor imagery and upper level analysis show an upper level system pushing east across the great basin and into the Rockies. A large area of low pressure was located across Ontario and Quebec with an upper level jet streak pushing out of the upper Mississippi valley into the upper Great Lakes. Surface high pressure was located over the region with a light wind and dry air mass. Abundant sunshine has shot temperatures up into the low to mid 30s after morning lows in the single digits to teens.

Tonight: The upper level wave moving out of the Great Basin will shift across the Rockies into the central plains tonight with an area of low pressure developing over OK. As the upper wave approaches, mid and high level cloudiness will increase this evening and tonight across the area. This will likely have an impact on any radiational fog developing overnight and for now have left out of the forecast. We are expecting lows to be in the teens most locations to near 20 in the southwest.

Thursday: The upper wave will begin to push across the area and we'll continue to see ceilings lower across the area. There is a low potential for light rain initially changing to light snow or flurries by Thursday evening(generally less than 20% for any accumulating precipitation). Highs are expected to reach the upper 20s in the north where the colder air will begin to filter in, to the low 40s in the southwest closer to the low pressure.

LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/

Issued at 142 PM CST Wed Jan 28 2026

Thursday night precipitation chances and cold air arrival: The best chances for any light snowfall will generally be southeast of the interstate 44 corridor with 30% or less chance for any accumulating precipitation. Any rain should change over to snow as the colder air pushes in behind the low pressure system with accumulations less than 0.2" of snow. Little to no impacts are expected with the precipitation at this time. The main feature will be the cold air mass building into the area. Lows Thursday night into Friday morning will dip into the teens with wind chills in the single digits.

More Arctic air into the area Friday - Saturday: A stronger upper wave will pivot through the area on Friday into Friday night and will drive another Arctic air mass south into the area. Highs on Friday will likely remain below freezing with lows Friday night in the single digits and wind chills from the single digits to teens below zero. Highs on Saturday will be from the teens to low 20s. After another night in the single digits on Saturday night, we'll start to rise again on Sunday with highs trying to get back above freezing for highs.

Warm up next week: We'll start to see upper rising heights and low level warm advection by early next week and finally see temperatures warm to near normal during the first half of next week. Temperature anomalies in the day 8 through 14 day period are starting to creep towards above normal in the western CWA, so the warm-up may continue into the later part of next week.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY/

Issued at 446 PM CST Wed Jan 28 2026

VFR conditions will prevail for the majority of the TAF period. With cloud cover increasing throughout the period, MVFR ceilings will affect all three terminals by approximately 21Z through the end of the period and beyond. Otherwise, current southwesterly surface winds will shift out of the northeast by the end of the period, generally remaining below 10kts.

SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

KS...None. MO...None.