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Beneficial rains for the Great Plains
Looking ahead, the slow-moving spring storm complex currently centered over the Great Plains will expand in coverage and move eastward, with heavy rain reaching the Atlantic Coast over the weekend. Five-day rainfall totals are expected to exceed 2 inches or more locally from the Gulf Coast to Coastal New England, and severe weather will be possible the next few days in portions of the Great Plains and Southeast. Elsewhere, more than 1 inch of rainfall is forecast in and around Minnesota, providing timely moisture for newly-sown spring wheat, but lingering wetness will remain a problem in the Ohio Valley. Meanwhile, scattered rain and snow showers will gradually end over the central Rockies as a new storm system approaches the West Coast.
The 6- to 10-day outlook calls for near- to below-normal temperatures across most of the Nation, the exceptions being the Pacific Northwest and along the Gulf Coast, where warmer conditions are expected. Dry weather is forecast to continue on the northern Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley but precipitation will be near to above normal elsewhere, with the highest likelihood of wetter-than-normal conditions in the West — including California and Nevada — and the Southeast.
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