KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - For this morning, mostly cloudy skies will take over, but will burn off moving towards the late morning and early afternoon. Temperatures hover in the middle 40s, with wind mainly out of the southwest between 5 and 15 mph. We will see a clearing from the cloud cover, sunshine takes over, and temperatures rise this afternoon into the upper 60s. The overall high will hit closer to 4 o’clock between 69° and 73°.

MIDWEEK : As we move forward into Tuesday, we will begin picking up wind gusts out of the southwest as a warm front and cold front combination begin to sweep through the area from the west, tracking east. Cloud cover will build throughout the day with better chances for showers and a few thunderstorms, likely towards the Iowa border in the early to mid-evening.

Wednesday forecast shows scattered showers and thunderstorms giving us a First Warn, which will extend into Thursday as widespread scattered rain and thunderstorms continue. Temperatures during this time will peak in the upper 70s on Tuesday, just before the storm system enters, dropping to the lower 70s for both Wednesday and Thursday.

WEEKEND : As we move towards Friday, some of our long-range data indicates a prolonged pattern of wet weather that expands into Friday. Others still indicate it will exit the area, but at this time, we are increasing the rain chances to 30% Friday with the potential of a First Warn.