| 1. | The cloud shield will move westward into the middle Mississippi Valley on Wednesday.
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| 2. | The cloud shield will be drawn up the Appalachians along with a few thundershowers.
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| 3. | By early Friday, the cloud shield from the expanding system engulfed much of the Missouri Valley.
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| 4. | Clouds shield the surface from direct sun in the day, and radiate heat to the ground at night.
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| 5. | When it develops, rainbands and cloud lines around the tropical cyclone weaken and the thick cloud shield obscures the circulation center.
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| 6. | Drier air currents produced by high pressure near the northern Great Lakes will cause the back edge of the cloud shield to slowly erode.
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| 7. | Most of the rain and its associated cloud shield will follow the front, producing a dull day from the Great Lakes states to the southern Plains.
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