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Mild & showery across the Midwest
Increasingly warm, mostly dry conditions over much of the central and eastern U.S. will contrast with heavy rain in parts of the West. Scattered, locally heavy showers from central Texas into the Mid-South will diminish during the remainder of Friday, with dry, warmer-than-normal weather expanding from the central and southern Plains to the East Coast States by Sunday. Some light showers are likely along a weak front swinging though the Great Lakes and Northeast, but rainfall totals will tally less than half an inch in most areas. Meanwhile, a steady fetch of Pacific moisture coupled with a series of fast-moving disturbances will maintain periods of heavy rain, mountain snow, and gusty winds from central California into the northern Rockies and Northwest; 5-day precipitation totals will top an inch over much of the region, and exceed10 inches in orographically favored areas.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook for calls for the likelihood of above-normal warmth nationwide, except for near-normal temperatures across the Intermountain West. Meanwhile, drier-than-normal conditions from California to the central and southern Plains will contrast with above-normal rainfall in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi, save for lingering dryness along the eastern Gulf Coast.
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