 and through Texas as the showers and thunderstorms wind down to just spotty coverages over parts of the northern and central Corn Belt for the end portion of the week. That heat will put a lid on any opportunity to generate organized rainfall on the plains until the weekend with a couple of boundaries and perhaps some of these ridge riding and Ring of Fire thunderstorm clusters will take the edge off the heat across parts of Big Sky. The Dakotas, Upper Midwest could be heavy and severe.