Mitchell's Corn Palace Festival Forecast... And Some Preliminary *Cooler* Weekend Temperatures

We have some big temperature swings on the way this week, although we've already been through the first one between last night and this morning. A cold front took us from the middle 80s yesterday with humidity to the upper 70s with little humidity today. This is good news if you're headed out to Mitchell for the Corn Palace Festival:

Vendors open and kick it off around noon tomorrow, and things look nice all day long. By the time concerts start around 5pm it'll be sunny and near 80 degrees. Not bad for August.

Things change temperature-wise by the weekend though. We won't talk *too* much about it now, but this is a computer-model based image showing Saturday's high temperatures:

A huge reinforcing cold burst of air (for this time of year) comes in Friday to Saturday and really changes things to fall for a couple of days. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s on Saturday.

We'll see if it holds true - but for now it seems as though that is the case, so get ready for a cooler weekend.

~KDLT Chief Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer