Weather

Little change ahead in weather

A long-duration “Santa Ana” wind event in coastal southern California will continue through the weekend before subsiding. Meanwhile, an early-season snow storm across the Deep South will lift northeastward, delivering weekend snow to the middle and northern Atlantic coastal plain. In the storm’s wake, weekend freezes will occur deep into the South, but will spare winter agricultural areas of southern Texas and peninsular Florida. Dry weather will cover the much of the remainder of the U.S, although cold conditions in the South, East, and Midwest will contrast with mild weather from the Pacific Coast to the Plains.

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for below-normal temperatures from the Mississippi River eastward, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail from the Pacific Coast to the High Plains. Meanwhile, near- to below-normal precipitation nearly nationwide should contrast with wetter-than-normal weather from the Dakotas to Michigan.