Weather
A wet pattern for much of the Heartland
Tropical moisture will lead to locally heavy showers over the Gulf Coast States, with the heaviest rain (locally in excess of 4 inches) from south-central Texas into the northern Delta. Meanwhile, a strong cold front will generate showers and thunderstorms — some potentially severe — as it tracks from the Upper Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes and lower Mississippi Valley during the weekend, clearing the East Coast by Monday morning. Sharply colder temperatures will surge south and east, with daytime highs expected to average 10 to 15° below normal behind the front in the nation’s mid-section. In contrast, heat will intensify over the Pacific Coast States, where daytime highs will average up to 20° above normal. The western heat will spread onto the northern Plains Sunday into Monday, causing temperatures to spike into the middle and upper 90s early next week.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures over the Rockies and Great Plains, with warmer-than-normal conditions expected in the Northwest and from the eastern Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast States. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather over the nation’s mid-section will contrast with near- to below-normal precipitation east of the Appalachians and from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast.
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