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Milder weather forecast to return to the Heartland
The coldest air of the season is overspreading the eastern half of the U.S. Weekend freeze warnings have been issued from parts of the central and southern Plains into portions of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Additional freeze warnings may be required in the Southeast early next week. As cold air arrives, rain will change to snow showers from the Great Lakes region into the central and southern Appalachians. Weekend snow can also be expected in parts of New England. Meanwhile, a storm will continue to push inland across the West, resulting I n precipitation totals of 2 to 4 inches in the Pacific Northwest; 1 to 3 inches in the northern Rockies; and 1 to 2 inches in the Sierra Nevada. By early next week, the interaction between the storm and moisture associated with eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Vance could result in heavy rain from the southern Plains into the middle Mississippi Valley.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for warmer-than-normal weather nationwide, except for near-normal temperatures across the Deep South. Meanwhile, near- to below-normal precipitation from California to the central and southern Plains and the western Corn Belt will contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions east of the Mississippi, in the Gulf Coast region, and across the nation’s northern tier.
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