Severe weather may be in store for the start of downtown Belleville’s Art on the Square weekend.
Friday’s weather forecast for the metro-east shows there’s a 70% chance of storms Friday afternoon and into the evening, according to the National Weather Service. Storms and thunderstorms are likely after 1 p.m. with a high near 87. Wind gusts could reach 29 miles per hour.
“Not everyone is going to see rain,” said Melissa Delia, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in St. Louis. There are “scattered, isolated thunderstorms where some parts [of the area] may see rain, other parts may not.”…