Occasional showers and thunderstorms continues to be the story through Thursday with chances dropping to 30% by Friday afternoon. A few of the storms could be very intense again on Thursday with cloud-to-ground lightning and strong wind. By Sunday a front will pass and bring in some drier air and a lovely day with sunshine and 80 degrees . The national high temperature on Wednesday was 121 degrees at Death Valley California and the low was 32 degrees at Climax Colorado