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Weather pattern to remain unsettled
High pressure will maintain dry, increasingly warm weather over the eastern third of the nation through the Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, a slow-moving cold front located Wednesday morning over the northern Plains will begin to interact with an upper-air disturbance currently producing rain and mountain snow over the west, leading to heavy precipitation (2 to 8 inches liquid equivalent, locally more) from central Texas into the Corn Belt by week’s end. Sharply colder air behind the front will increase the risk for damaging freezing rain from central and northern Texas into Iowa, while sleet and snow fall on the northern periphery of the precipitation shield from the southern High Plains into the upper Midwest.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook depicts above-normal temperatures in southern California and across much of the northern and eastern U.S., while colder-than-normal conditions are expected from the Intermountain West to the central and southern Plains. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation across the Intermountain West and the High Plains will contrast with wetter-than-normal weather across the eastern half of the U.S. and along the Pacific Coast as far south as central California.
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