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Mild weather to dominate the Heartland
Active weather will continue across much of the nation. A storm system currently centered over the Great Lakes region will continue to move northeastward, bringing a return to dry weather by Thursday to the eastern U.S. However, additional Northeastern rainfall could reach 1 to 3 inches before precipitation ends. Meanwhile, a series of storms will arrive across the Pacific Northwest, where 5-day rainfall totals could reach 5 to 10 inches (or more) west of the Cascades. The first of the Pacific storms will dip into the Southwest before tracking eastward. Toward week’s end, heavy rain will return to the south-central U.S. and quickly spread across the remainder of the South. Five-day rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches can be expected from the southeastern Plains to the southern Appalachians. In contrast, little or no precipitation will occur across the northern Plains and southern California. Elsewhere, a period of mild weather in the western U.S. will be replaced by sharply colder conditions early next week.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of warmer-than-normal weather across the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., while below-normal temperatures will overspread the West. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal conditions across the majority of the nation will contrast with below-normal precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, southern Florida, and parts of the Northeast.
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