Severe weather for May standards has been quiet so far this month in much of the Plains and Midwest, but a more active pattern is about to take shape and will last through early next week, producing wind damage,

Daily rain threats will be capped off by some strong storms to end the work week. Watch the weather closely for Thursday late at night as a strong system could spark some severe storms for the region.

There’s been an eerie lull in extreme weather across the U.S. recently, but it is slowly changing, as the FOX Forecast Center monitors severe storms across the Plains during what is expected to be a seven-day stretch of severe weather.