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Monday, August 9, 2010:

The “hot and steamies” that have long been expected for this week in the Midwest got started in a big way yesterday, with highs climbing to 90s degrees and higher for most of Illinois and points westward with dew point readings in the 70s to around 80. We saw actual highs climb above 100 degrees for far southeastern Nebraska, Kansas, and points southward yesterday, but the high humidity levels gave us heat indices above 105 degrees across basically all of the western two-thirds of the Corn Belt and throughout the Delta. There is a lot more of this to come, with highs getting to 90 degrees or higher on a consistent basis right through Friday over all but extreme northeastern parts of the region, and we are going to see several places in far southwestern and southern Corn Belt reaching the 100 degree mark from time to time. Southern parts of the region will likely still be hot for Saturday, but we are looking at somewhat cooler temperatures overspread much of the Nation’s midsection for next week. The rain keeps falling for a large part of the Midwest, with rains since this past Friday morning being big over northeastern Nebraska, eastern South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and far northern Illinois. Most of the rain in Wisconsin came for Saturday night, and most of the Iowa rain came last night; in both situations, there were fairly big areas seeing 1.5 to 3.0 inch totals and locally heavier. There is still going to be a good deal of rain to work through this week in the Corn Belt, probably too much for a lot of areas but eventually the areas in the south that have been hotter and drier as of late may get some. Through midweek, the very best rains are likely going to be over eastern Iowa eastward across northern Illinois and northern Indiana.

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