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A wet, active pattern ahead for much of the Plains, upper Midwest

Looking ahead, a slow-moving storm system will drift southward into the Ohio Valley before returning northward to the Great Lakes region during the weekend. Cool, showery weather will dominate the eastern Corn Belt and environs during the next few days, while torrential rainfall (locally 4 to 8 inches) could cause flooding in portions of the Mid-Atlantic region. Toward week’s end, however, beneficial rain could reach drought-stricken southern New England. Elsewhere, mostly dry weather will prevail, except for some late-week precipitation in the West. Five-day totals could reach an inch in the Pacific Northwest and from the Four Corners region to the northern Rockies. Late-season warmth will continue for several more days from the High Plains westward, but cooler air will arrive in the Far West during the weekend.

The 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the eastern half of the U.S., while cooler-than-normal conditions can be expected across the northern High Plains and throughout the West. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation in the Desert Southwest and much of the eastern U.S. will contrast with wetter-than-normal weather along the Atlantic Seaboard and from northern California and the Pacific Northwest eastward to the Plains and upper Midwest.

5-Day Precipitation Totals

NOAA’s 6- to 10- Day Outlook

NOAA’s 8- to 14- Day Outlook

 

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