Iowa weather: Scattered storms tonight, hotter and drier for the weekend

VERY SWEET. GREAT REUNION. SWEET. ALL RIGHT, IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE HEAT, TOMORROW MIGHT BE YOUR DAY. UH, YEAH. ZANE, THIS IS WHERE WE’RE HEADED. RIGHT BACK INTO THE DEPTHS OF SUMMER. HERE. YOU THINK IT WAS JULY IN IOWA OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW? YEAH. I MEAN, REMEMBER THE HOLIDAY LAST WEEK? IT REALLY WASN’T THAT BAD, ACTUALLY. IT’S KIND OF COOL. HADN’T BEEN THAT BAD THIS WEEK EITHER. BUT DON’T WORRY. LATER THIS WEEKEND, THINGS WILL HEAT RIGHT BACK UP. QUIET THIS EVENING, THOUGH. HERE IN DOWNTOWN DES MOINES, LIVE LOOKING TO SEE THE MOON SETTING HERE BEHIND ME THAT MOON’S HAD A LITTLE BIT OF COLOR AS IT’S GONE DOWN LATELY, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LITTLE THIN VEIL OF SOME CANADIAN WILDFIRE SMOKE. THAT’S DRIFTED BACK OVERHEAD. THE OTHER WISE, WE’RE MAINLY FOCUSED ON THE HEAT COMING OUR DIRECTION TONIGHT. WE’VE GOT THOSE LAST FEW STORMS AND SHOWERS PRETTY MUCH DONE. MIGHT BE A COUPLE OF PATCHES OF FOG OVERNIGHT. AND THEN AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE REST OF THIS WEEK, THE TEMPERATURES CLIMB THE HUMIDITY LEVELS CLIMB AS WELL. RIVERS HAVE BEEN CLIMBING TO, WELL, MAINLY THE DES MOINES. WE HEARD FROM PEPPER EARLIER ON. LET’S GO A LITTLE BIT FARTHER DOWNSTREAM. WE’LL SHOW YOU JUST HOW MUCH THE DES MOINES RIVER HAS CHANGED HERE IN RECENT MONTHS. THIS IS A PICTURE FROM THE HIGH TRESTLE BRIDGE BETWEEN ALONG THE BIKE TRAIL BETWEEN MADRID AND WOODWARD, LOOKING SOUTHWARD TOWARDS WHAT NOW IS THE FLOODED NORTHERN PORTION OF SAYLORVILLE LAKE. JUST A FEW DAYS AGO. COMPARE THAT TO THIS SPRING. A LOT MORE GREEN. THERE. COMPARE IT TO LAST FALL WHEN WE WERE STILL IN THE GRIPS OF DROUGHT LAST FALL AND OBVIOUSLY FOLLOWS A DRIER TIME OF YEAR ANYWAY, SO HUGE CHANGE IN RECENT MONTHS, NOT ONLY OBVIOUSLY IN THAT PART OF THE CENTRAL IOWA, BUT A LOT OF SPOTS AROUND THE STATE RAINFALL WISE, THIS EVENING, THOUGH, WE’RE PRETTY MUCH WINDING THINGS DOWN. COUPLE OF SPORADIC SHOWERS YOU HAD FROM TAMA UP TOWARDS WATERLOO AND CEDAR FALLS. MIGHT SEE A COUPLE OF MORE SPOTTY RAINDROPS. THE REST OF THE EVENING. OTHERWISE WE’RE JUST GOING TO BE MOSTLY CLEAR. WE’LL DEVELOP MAYBE A COUPLE OF PATCHES OF SOME FOG, ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING SPOTS, INTO TOMORROW MORNING, WHERE YOU SEE THOSE KIND OF TENDRILS OF GRAY, THEN THOSE DISAPPEAR. ONCE THE SUN COMES UP, WE GET RID OF THE FOG. WE’LL SEE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE THROUGH THE DAY TOMORROW. ON YOUR THURSDAY, A VERY SLIM, SPOTTY CHANCE OF A SHOWER EXISTS TOMORROW, MAINLY OVER IN EASTERN IOWA ON THE WHOLE, TOMORROW WILL BE DRIER THAN TODAY WAS BY A LONG SHOT. TEMPERATURES, THOUGH, SHOULDN’T JUMP UP TOO MUCH JUST YET. MIDDLE 80S TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THAT’S STILL PRETTY AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. AND THEN AFTER THAT WE START TO CLIMB. I THINK BY FRIDAY PROBABLY NOT 85, I THINK WE’LL BE PROBABLY CLOSER TOWARDS THE 88, 89 DEGREE MARK. SO WE’RE STARTING TO HEAT UP STILL MOSTLY DRY AS FAR AS RAINFALL POTENTIAL. IT’S NOT SUPER HIGH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, MAYBE LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THERE’S A SHOWER CHANCE, BUT DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS THE NEXT FEW DAYS, IT’S GOING TO BE PRETTY HOT AND SUNNY. LOW 90S BY SATURDAY, ENOUGH HUMIDITY ADDED TO THE ATMOSPHERE. WE’RE PROBABLY FEELING CLOSER TO THOSE TRIPLE DIGITS TO START OFF THE WEEKEND. IF YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE 100 ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY IS COMING AND WILL DEFINITELY FEEL LIKE 100. THEN LOTS OF SUNSHINE ACROSS THE STATE OF IOWA. SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND. MAYBE EVEN SOME MID 90S FOR TEMPERATURES AND WE’LL DRAG THOSE HEAT INDEX VALUES UP PROBABLY TEN DEGREES ABOVE THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURE AND TOP OUT MAYBE AROUND THAT 105 DEGREE MARK FOR SUNDAY. THAT WILL PROBABLY BE THE PEAK OF THE HEAT. AND THEN WE’LL START TO BRING THE TEMPERATURES BACK DOWN JUST A BIT. BUT WE’RE STILL GOING TO BE PROBABLY 90 PLUS MONDAY. AND THEN WILL DEPEND ON THE EXACT TIMING OF A FRONT THAT STARTS TO SAG SOUTHWARD INTO THE STATE OF IOWA TOWARDS TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY. HOW FAST WE CAN KICK THE HEAT OUT OF HERE. THAT’S PROBABLY THE NEXT APPRECIABLE CHANCE OF RAINFALL, TOO. NOT UNTIL PROBABLY NEXT WEEK, UNTIL THEN, WE’