Summer outlook for Mid-Missouri: ‘Near normal’

Area growers are having to turn on the watering hoses to get their plants enough moisture to grow.

Area growers are having to turn on the watering hoses to get their plants enough moisture to grow. Photo by Julie Smith.

Ask a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s St. Louis office what this summer’s weather holds, and you get a two-word answer: “Near normal.”

This week, temperatures have been running about 10 degrees warmer than usual, with overnight lows in the upper 60s to lower 70s, and highs in the low- to mid-90s through next week — except for, maybe, Thursday and Friday, when high temperatures should drop into the high 80s if a predicted rain system gets here.

The National Weather Service has released a “local three-month temperature outlook ... as part of its ongoing efforts to improve service” to the public, the agency reported on its website, www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=lsx.

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