After a cool week, a surge of warmth is expected to pump through the region beginning this weekend and continuing through early October. Will it be our “second summer”? Or just slightly warmer than normal? TBD.

Temps today will hover right around “normal” with highs in the upper 60s. Low 70s are likely this weekend with mid to upper 70s possible next week. The entire 5-day forecast looks dry with our next chance of rain not until Sept 30. 

A powerful El Nino continues to rage in the eastern Pacific with calamitous impacts expected across the globe. Here in the upper Midwest the most likely impact will be a drier, milder winter, but across the US south, heavy rain, ice, flooding, and tornados are expected throughout the winter as El Nino strengthens and pulls the subtropical jet stream north.

Tl;dr - fairly typical temps - 60s - today, warmer this wknd next week. Dry through Sept 30.

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