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A quieter Heartland pattern ahead next week
Precipitation will subside Friday across the western U.S., but significant rain and high-elevation snow will return to northern California and the Northwest late in the weekend and early next week. Five-day precipitation totals could reach 1 to 3 inches in the northern and central Rockies and 2 to 8 inches in northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Farther east, a fast-moving cold front could result in 1- to 2-inch rainfall totals, starting later Friday, from the eastern Corn Belt into New England. In the front’s wake, snow showers will develop downwind of the Great Lakes. Elsewhere, dry weather will prevail during the next 5 days from the Desert Southwest to the southern Plains.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- to below-normal temperatures across much of the eastern one-third of the U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail across the southern tip of Florida and from the Pacific Coast to the Plains. Meanwhile, near- to below-normal precipitation in much of the country should contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions across Florida’s peninsula and northwest of a line from northern California to Lake Superior.
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