Weather

A wide-range of temperatures across the Heartland

A storm currently centered over the middle Mississippi Valley will reach Lake Huron early Saturday. Wind-driven snow will fall northwest of the storm’s center, while showers and locally severe thunderstorms will sweep across the eastern one-third of the U.S. Friday and Saturday, along a trailing cold front. Meanwhile, cold weather will cover the West into next week. Late in the weekend, snow showers will return to parts of the West. However, the cold conditions and lack of widespread, heavy precipitation should allow for improvement in California’s flood situation. By early next week, precipitation will develop across the mid-South and quickly expand to encompass most areas from the Mississippi Valley eastward. Across the North, some of the precipitation should fall as snow.

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the eastern half of the U.S., while colder-than-normal conditions can be expected in the West. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation from California to the central and southern Plains will contrast with wetter-than-normal weather across the North and throughout the eastern one-third of the U.S.

5-Day Precipitation Totals

NOAA’s 6- to 10- Day Outlook

NOAA’s 8- to 14- Day Outlook