A drier Sunday forecast, turning cooler on Monday…

June 20, 2021 2:40 am

Malcolm Byron,

Sunday morning will be a bit quieter across the state of Nebraska! Aside from some showers prior to 8AM, things will turn drier through the mid-morning hours on Sunday. Skies will clear, and we should be mostly clear to partly cloudy for Sunday afternoon! It will be warm with highs in the upper 80s to around 90.

A cold front will approach southeast Nebraska sometime Sunday afternoon. That may be just enough to produce a few isolated showers. These will be hit or miss, and most of us will remain dry.

Cooler air resides behind the cold front, which makes Sunday’s high temperature a bit of a wild card. If the cold front arrives a bit earlier, highs could be stuck in the mid-80s. If the cold front arrives a bit later, we may surpass the 90° mark. The bottomline is that locations north of Lincoln may struggle reaching 90° whereas locations farther south such as Hebron or Fairbury may exceed 90°. This all depends on the timing of the front…so I’m thinking upper 80s to around 90 in and around Lincoln.

Sunday night and into Monday morning may be more on the soggy side for southern Nebraska. Northern Nebraska may miss out on this batch of rain. Either way you slice it, the rain chances are highest in our southern counties, and the rain exits by Monday morning.

We also know that the cool air will make it’s presence known on Monday…highs will struggle to get out of the 70s Monday afternoon! Enjoy the brief cool-down, because we’re back in the 80s by Tuesday and 90s by Wednesday…we’ll call it a temperature roller-coaster!