ST. LOUIS - After a sunny, hot, dry weekend, weather changes begin on Monday.

The week starts with some rain. Unfortunately, rainfall totals look to be on the lighter side for many, but we’ll take it. Then we’ll see a cool down.

First, a system to our south will send clouds and some rain northward by Monday afternoon. Rain and some storms will then hang around into this evening, but mostly for communities south of metro St. Louis.

Farther north, some spotty afternoon showers may develop well ahead of our expected cold front. High temperatures Monday are expected to be in the mid-80s.

The cold front moves through into Tuesday morning.  However, the data points to only spotty, light showers as it passes. However, it will bring in cooler temperatures.

Mostly cloudy Tuesday, with highs in the mid-70s. We’ll be back to sunshine Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the low 70s.

Friday and the weekend look a touch warmer, but nothing extreme.  We are watching for a slight chance of rain west of St. Louis on Friday.