As we get into a shortened work week, the weather is pretty nice, but the forces of high pressure are causing the dry weather pattern and drought to continue in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area.
"It's just this big dome of high pressure, and that basically just means there's a big pile of air here," Omaha National Weather Service Meteorologist Taylor Nicolaisen tells KFAB Radio News.
"So, you'll see some showers sometimes, you know, in the Dakotas and they'll sweep down through the Great Lakes or something like that, but not close to Eastern Nebraska."
Nicolaisen says that air mass is thick and it forms a high pressure blocking action.
(Pictures from Getty Images and Omaha National Weather Service)