Today’s forecast: It’s a dreary and chilly day for mid-May. It doesn’t look like much rain will fall. I wouldn’t rule out it being misty at times, but not big soakers. There will be several rainy periods through the week.

"A maturing central U.S. storm system is expected to produce another round of dangerous severe weather and instances of flash flooding today," the National Weather Service warned Monday. The forecast discussion added that "from a broader perspective," locally heavy rain was forecast to reach from the northern Plains to Texas.

A multi-day outbreak of severe thunderstorms that rocked the Midwest has shifted toward Oklahoma and will continue into early next week. According to the National Weather Service in Norman, the first round of severe weather on Sunday,

At least seven people are dead in Missouri after strong supercell storms that spurred tornado warnings slammed into St. Louis on Friday. Two others died in Virginia.

Thousands are still without power as more severe weather may batter areas already devastated by weekend storms.

After rain every day of the weekend, more precipitation is in store Monday, according to the National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office.

The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of at least four such facilities across the country that is so short-staffed that it is no longer routinely operating 24/7.

As of 2:45 p.m. Sunday, 560 flights had been delayed and one had been canceled at DIA, according to flight tracking software from FlightAware.