Weather

Unseasonably cool weather set to return

A cold front will bring a return to showery weather across the nation’s heartland, starting with thunderstorms in the far upper Midwest on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, showers will sweep across the remainder of the Midwest, while a new cold front will arrive in the Northwest. The front’s passage will lower temperatures that have recently climbed to above-normal levels in the Midwest and have briefly topped 100° on the Plains as far north as South Dakota. Toward week’s end, a new round of showers will overspread the northern Plains and upper Midwest, while the original cold front will settle across the South and East. Five-day rainfall totals could reach 1 to 2 inches, with locally higher amounts, in a broad area covering the North, Southeast, and Midwest. Elsewhere, generally dry weather will prevail from California to the central and southern High Plains, except for scattered Monsoon showers in the central and southern Rockies.

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for below-normal temperatures across the Midwest and Northeast, while warmer-than-normal weather will cover the southern Plains, southern Florida, and the West. Meanwhile, near- to below-normal rainfall from the Pacific Coast to the Plains will contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions across most of the eastern half of the U.S.

5-Day Precipitation Totals

NOAA’s 6- to 10- Day Outlook

NOAA’s 8- to 14- Day Outlook