Weather

A wet pattern to develop across the Plains

Looking ahead, a cold front currently stretching from the Great Lakes region to Texas will move southeastward. However, the parent low-pressure system attached to the front will stall, maintaining cool, showery weather through mid-week across portions of the Great Lakes States. Later, cool weather and showers will shift into the Northeast. Rainfall associated with the storm and its trailing cold front could reach 2 to 4 inches in the Mid-Atlantic States and southern New England. Farther south, locally heavy showers across Texas will finally end later Monday. In contrast, mostly dry weather will continue for the remainder of the week across the Far West and the Great Plains. Else-where, late-season warmth—already in place across the Far West—will build eastward to the High Plains by mid-week.

The 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., while cooler-than-normal conditions will prevail in the West. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation across most of the eastern half of the country will contrast with wetter-than-normal weather across Florida’s peninsula and from the Pacific Northwest into the upper Midwest.

5-Day Precipitation Totals

NOAA’s 6- to 10- Day Outlook

NOAA’s 8- to 14- Day Outlook