Cooler stretch to round out July and start August
Cooler days are in the forecast for quite a while! High temperatures will only be in the upper 70s to round out July today and for the Lancaster County Super Fair to get underway.
Skies will clear eventually to some hazy sunshine this Thursday, but we begin with some patchy areas of fog statewide and some scattered showers with localized heavy down pours and flash flooding (toward Douglas, Sarpy, Cass counties) in eastern Nebraska.
Some of that rain will try to linger toward about midday before ending.
Stronger storms moving from Wyoming toward Colorado will clip southwest Nebraska and pose a risk for some severe weather. Main hazards out that way would be some hail and gusty winds. There is a Marginal (Level 1 of 5) risk for this potential.
There is a chance we could be nearing a top-10 day Friday, especially for summer. The one thing that may ruin that is some elevated areas of smoke moving into eastern Nebraska trying to spoil the fun and spoil the air quality.
Smoke originating from Canada and Arizona is expected to arrive this evening in eastern Nebraska.
Our next chance at precipitation comes late Saturday into early Sunday, but we did pretty good on rainfall in July. It’s hard to be ABOVE average for precipitation during the summer, yet this July we are going to end the month ABOVE average.
We are still below average on the year though, by over 5 inches.
Meteorologist Jessica Blum
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