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Poor air quality is continuing to linger across the Mid-Missouri River Valley Friday, as smoke from wildfires in Canada blows into the region. An Air Quality Alerts has been issued for the Kansas City metro, and all points north of the Iowa border through Saturday as northeasterly winds will persist allowing smokey and hazy skies to remain in place. Mainly dry and mild conditions will dominate conditions through the weekend, as an unseasonably cool air mass sticks around.

After a very hot start to the week, we’re finally getting a much-needed break from the heat. Throughout the day today, we’ve been blanketed with a decent amount of cloud cover. This, combined with northeasterly winds, has kept our temperatures well below average. Hazy conditions are beginning to appear on the horizon, as the northeasterly

A slight chance of showers and periods of cloud cover will linger overnight and into Thursday, as a cold front slowly passes through the region from north to south. Blow average temperatures and mainly dry conditions will settle into the area through the end of the work week, with afternoon highs running in the mid to upper 70s, about 10 degrees below average!

Tuesday afternoon and evening will bring the final hours of excessive heat and humidity across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas, before a front triggers scattered t-storms to the region and eventually much cooler air.

Late July heat and humidity will linger across the Mid-Missouri River Valley through Tuesday, before t-storm chances and a welcome cool off arrive later in the week.

Rounds of shower and thunderstorm activity will continue across the Mid-Missouri River Valley late Friday evening.

A Flood Watch has been issued for all of Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas from 4 p.m. Thursday, July 24 through 4 a.m. Saturday, July 25