Keep an eye out for a low pressure system that looks to soak cities from the central Plains into the Great Lakes to close out the weekend.
An associated warm front will be found ahead of this low, while a cold front drops through the nation’s midsection. As a result, precipitation will occur from the northern and central Rockies/Plains into the Great Lakes, Upper Midwest, and Ohio Valley.
Most areas will just see precipitation in the form of rain for the end of the weekend. The exception will be the tallest peaks of the northern/central Rockies, where snow will fall. Expect snowfall accumulations from a trace to perhaps a few inches.
At the same time, a separate low pressure system will inch away from the Northeast. A few rain showers will be possible across southern New England through the Mid-Atlantic coast. The best chance of any rain will occur in the morning and afternoon.
The West Coast and most of the Southern Tier will be under the influence of high pressure today. Dry, quiet weather is in the forecast here.
Unseasonably warm weather is in store for the immediate West Coast into the Southwest, Plains, and Midwest. Meanwhile, colder-than-normal temperatures await the interior Northwest to the northern Plains as well as most of the Eastern U.S.
High temperatures will be in the 20s and 30s for the northern Rockies. A few 30s will also be scattered throughout the far northern Plains. Forties and 50s cover the interior Northwest, the rest of the Rockies and northern Plains into the Upper Great Lakes, Appalachian Spine, and Northeast.
Expect 60s and 70s for the Northwest, central Plains, Midwest, Deep South, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast. Eighties and 90s cover most of California into the Desert Southwest along with the southern Plains. The mercury will even climb to the triple digits across parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
