Music and fireworks will highlight Celebration at the Station, the annual free concert that defines Memorial Day weekend in Kansas City. A crowd of about 50,000 is expected Sunday, May 25, outside Union Station for the tribute to those who have died in service to the nation.

Memorial Day: Showers and thunderstorms are looking more likely and more widespread on Monday. A First Warn continues, our fourth consecutive. The other big story is the near record cold high temperature of 60°. This would tie for the third coldest Memorial Day and the coolest since 1997.

Thursday will feel more like October than May, with high temperatures only reaching the upper 60s this afternoon, despite abundant sunshine. Starting Friday, rain chances creep in and stick around throughout the weekend.

Although a wet holiday weekend remains in the forecast for the Kansas City area, the threat of the heaviest rainfall has shifted to the south, according to the National Weather Service. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to remain south of U.

The heads of the largest domestic airlines released a letter to Congress this week, pushing them to take action, saying in part, "The current system is failing Americans."