The weather has been more active around Western Wisconsin today, and more thunderstorms are expected this evening, which may turn severe. A cold front will be pushing into the state later tonight, with favorable conditions for severe storms developing in the coming hours.

A Slight (level 2 out of 5) risk for severe weather is in place for all of SE MN and N IA Thursday. All hazards are in play in the

It’s possible that some of the storms embedded within this line may produce strong winds and small hail. As a result, the Storm Prediction Center has placed much of the region under a “1” on this evening's Threat Index. The greatest threat for potentially strong to Severe storms will occur between 9 PM and 12 AM.

The Storm Prediction Center has put much of Siouxland under a Slight to Marginal Risk of severe weather across the region. The main two threats for today’s severe weather will be some large hail and strong winds, with the chance of tornadoes being on the low side.

Temperatures will climb and we will have a strong southerly wind from the south which will lead to another muggy warm up as highs are expected to land in the mid and upper 80s again.This will cause the needed destabilization of our atmosphere as a cold front approaches which will lead to the severe weather threat returning in the later afternoon and evening timeframe.

Even though we had some extra clouds around Wednesday, highs still managed to reach the mid 80s across the area. We had dew points down in the 50s along with