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KEY MESSAGES
-Cooler and drier air overspreads the area behind the departing cold front, yielding pleasant conditions through the weekend with lower humidity and seasonable to slightly below normal temperatures.
-Temperatures gradually rise early next week.
-Shower and thunderstorm chances increase by mid-week as another shortwave and associated front approach, but timing, coverage, and any severe potential remain uncertain.
DISCUSSION
Issued at 109 PM CDT Fri Jul 31 2026
Showers and storms have exited to the south and east, with partly to mostly cloudy sky and northerly winds bringing a gradual drop in dewpoints. Dry conditions today into tonight, along with gusty northwest wind and a noticeable reduction in humidity. Under a building surface ridge, highs through the weekend are expected to run mainly in the low to mid 80s with lows in the 60s, and dew points settling into the mid 60s or lower, yielding more comfortable conditions compared to recent heat and humidity.
From Sunday into early next week, the ridge axis shifts east, allowing low-level southerly flow to slowly reestablish across the central Plains and support a gradual warm-up. Highs should trend toward the upper 80s to low 90s by Monday and Tuesday, with slowly increasing dew points but generally dry conditions persisting.
By mid-week, ensemble and deterministic guidance indicate another shortwave trough translating through the northern and central Plains with a trailing surface front moving through the area, supporting a return of shower and thunderstorm chances. This far out though there remains considerable uncertainty on timing, precipitation amounts and potential strength of storms, but it remains the most likely period over the next seven days of seeing rain.
AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY/
Issued at 547 PM CDT Fri Jul 31 2026
VFR at terminals as scattered low clouds behind the fropa gradually dissipate by 03Z. Additional low end VFR/MVFR stratus is forecast to drop southward around 08Z at KTOP/KFOE, shifting east by the late morning. Gusty north winds persist through the period, increasing from 15 to 18 kts sustained aft 15Z.
TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
None.
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