A summer weather pattern will intensify over the next few days with afternoon highs reaching the mid to upper 90s on both Thursday and Friday.
Local dew point temperatures in the upper 60s to lower 70s will result in heat index values between 100 and 107, particularly on Friday.
A midlevel ridge of high pressure will dominate our weather, while a series of troughs in the upper southwestern airflow may lead to a few showers and storms as the weekend approaches.
What will the weather be like today?
Later today and tonight, northwestern Oklahoma could see a few scattered showers and storms.
What is the forecast for the rest of the week?
By early Thursday morning, some of these residual showers or storms may move into extreme northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas, although the likelihood remains low.
Additional storms are likely to develop Thursday afternoon and early evening across south central Kansas into part of north-central OK. A few of these could move into areas along and northwest of the I-44 corridor before weakening late Thursday evening. Severe threats will include the mention of damaging downbursts of wind.
A stronger upper air trough is forecast to move across the Intermountain region into the Central Plains states on Saturday and Sunday. A surface cold front is anticipated to form and move southward Sunday into Monday…