 welcome back here with america in the morning backyard grilling this afternoon fireworks tonight the all-important independence day forecast here's accuweather.com meteorologist latroy thornton as the storm becomes better organized through the day over the northern plains and the upper midwest an associated cold front will plow into a warm and very humid environment supporting the risk for thunderstorms today and lasting through tonight from central oklahoma northward to far eastern nebraska and points eastward from there to southern wisconsin to the western tip of kentucky