| West Regional Video  The warmth will shift from the West into the Plains this weekend as a series of Pacific cold fronts begin their every-other-day trek onshore. Showery, but locally heavy, rains and mountain snow will be mainly confined to northern Idaho, western Montana, Washington, Oregon and northern California Saturday. As the first fairly strong front moves inland Saturday, snow levels will fall from 5500 feet to 3500 feet in the Washington Cascades and from 7000 feet to 5500 feet in the Siskiyou of northern California. Highs will range from the 40s and 50s in the Pacific Northwest to the 70s and 80s in the Desert Southwest. By Sunday, showers and mountain snow will extend from the northern Rockies to south-central California while western sections of Washington and Oregon remain showery. Sunday evening, showers and the cold front will pass through Southern California. Behind the front, north-to-northeast winds will be strong in the mountains Sunday night into Monday, possibly gusting to over 60 mph in some of the passes and canyons. The next strong cold front will arrive on the Pacific Northwest coast on Monday. |
| Midwest Regional Video One more disturbance, moving southeastward from out of southern Manitoba, will bring a little rain and snow to the Upper Midwest Saturday and showers plus a few rumbles of thunder to the Great Lakes, mid-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley Sunday. Temperatures will be on the rise over the next 2 days. Highs will be 10 to 20 degrees above average across the Plains this weekend, ranging from the 50s in North Dakota to the 70s and low 80s in Kansas. On Monday, a cold front will move eastward across the Plains and northern Mississippi Valley, sparking a broad area of showers. This front will fizzle in the Ohio and mid-Mississippi Valley by Wednesday. Then a second cold front will race eastward across the region later Tuesday and Wednesday with little additional rainfall. |
| Northeast Regional Video A developing low-pressure area off the southern Delmarva Peninsula or Outer Banks will strengthen as it heads for offshore Nova Scotia and then Newfoundland this weekend. As the intensifying low passes well southeast of Nantucket Saturday, it could produce wind gusts to 45 mph. A little light snow and/or rain showers will linger across parts of southern New York, southern New England and a large chunk of the Mid-Atlantic Saturday. Cool high temperatures over the weekend will range from the 30s and 40s over northern New England to the upper 40s and 50s in Virginia. In the upcoming week, showers will flirt with parts of the Northeast each day but especially Tuesday and Thursday when 2 cold fronts move across the region. |
| South Regional Video The South will be dry except for a few showers along the Texas Gulf Coast and across Louisiana this weekend. Temperatures will remain slightly below average over the Southeast but moderating. Temperatures (5 to 20 degrees above average) will be quite warm over the south-central states Saturday and Sunday, mainly 50s and 60s at night and 70s and 80s (near 90 along the Rio Grande) during the afternoon. The first front will dip into the southern Plains but otherwise stay north of the region early week. This means that east of the lower Mississippi River Valley, little if any rain will fall and the drought will continue unabated. A second, but mostly dry, cold front could sweep through the South to the northern Gulf Coast Wednesday and Thursday. |