Coolest weekend here since Father’s Day

This weekend’s back-to-back highs in the 70s brought an end to the city’s two-month string of warm summer weekends. Not since Father’s Day weekend have temperatures here failed to reach the 80s on at least one day of the weekend. Though Saturday’s showers shifted south of the city on Sunday, an abundance of cloudiness coupled with northeast winds helped suppress the temperatures. Highs are expected to return to the lower 80s today with increased sunshine and should remain there through most of the upcoming week. Our recent rainy weather will take a brief respite and is not expected to return until late in the week.
Severe weather erupted Sunday afternoon in the lower Ohio Valley as a line of severe thunderstorms swept across areas from southeast Missouri to southern Indiana, downing trees and power lines. Winds were clocked up to 60 m.p.h. at Harrisburg and 70 m.p.h. at Simpson—both in southeast Illinois.