Upper-90s for Thursday, followed by potential rain Friday Morning…

If yesterday wasn’t hot enough, today looks to be even warmer. Highs should top out in the mid-90s for most today, and the all too familiar humidity will accompany the heat. Mostly clear skies this morning will turn into partly cloudy skies by the afternoon with highs around 94°. As far as any rain is concerned, we’ve had 9 days without any measurable rainfall at Lincoln Municipal Airport. Today will likely mark the 10th day.

Tonight will be mild with lows in the upper 60s to low 70s with mostly clear skies.

Thursday looks even warmer with highs in the upper-90s. Heat indices (or the “feels like” temperature) may exceed 100° when you factor in the humidity.

Our best rain chance appears to arrive overnight Thursday and into Friday morning. This is not an amazing rain chance, and there are still a lot of details to iron out. The bottom line is that there is a chance of storms but models are still struggling on exact timing and coverage. We’ll continue to watch this system…right now the system doesn’t look to pose a huge severe weather risk for Lincoln.

If anyone has a chance for severe weather, that’ll be mainly north and west of Lincoln. Even then, it is not a high chance, and the primary threat would be damaging straight-line winds. What we do know is that Friday morning’s system is by far the best rain chance we have over the next 10 days…and we certainly need it!

We’ll have a brief “cool down” on Friday and Saturday with highs in the upper-80s AND with lower humidity. But spoiler alert… the 90s return next week!

Meteorologist Malcolm Byron

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