A stubborn Omega Block is breaking down and ushering in a much more active pattern across the region over the next week with some healthy rainfall totals in the forecast, as well as a few chances of severe weather we will have to contend with. The Weather Prediction Center official rainfall forecast over the next seven days (above) has a widespread area of 2-3" of rain. BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT - Storm chances are likely Sunday and Monday afternoons, and a severe weather risk is

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Hot and dry will be the theme to start the month of June with forecast models and analogs all supporting a prolonged stretch of quiet weather. Analogs, above, indicate a greater than 80% chance of above normal temperatures as we head into next weekend. The good news? The pattern may finally start to break down a bit giving way to some rain chances later in the period. More on that in a moment. For the Quad Cities, temperatures will be steadily increasing over the next 10 days

We started off spring with multiple rounds of heavy rain and severe weather mixed in, however the forecast in the short term, in addition to longer-term trends, looks quite dry across the region heading into June. Above, the official forecast from the Weather Prediction Center shows little if any rain over eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin over the next seven days. RRFS - Wednesday/Thursday AM Rain Euro - Wednesday/Thursday AM Rain Wednesday looks like th

Sunny and warm conditions continue through Memorial Day weekend and through much of the last week of May as an overall quiet pattern takes over the Upper Midwest. Highs Sunday (above) are forecast to be in the low 80s across the area under a mainly sunny sky. Monday, for your Memorial Day, temperatures creep up a little more into the mid 80s with still a mainly sunny sky with much warmer temperatures building off to the west across the central Plains. By Tuesday areas will wa