The weather forecast highlights several significant weather events across different regions:
Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Northeast:
- A powerful low-pressure system is expected to bring gusty winds and heavy rain.
- Showers and thunderstorms will continue across the Midwest and Northeast on Friday.
- The low-pressure system will gradually shift into Canada, tapering off showers from west to east across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
- Moderate to heavy rainfall is anticipated along the Appalachians into the Lower Great Lakes.
- Some areas, particularly in New Hampshire and Maine, could experience flooding due to heavy rain and snowmelt.
- Lingering showers and breezy conditions will persist into Saturday in interior parts of the Northeast.
California and the West:
- Lower elevation rain and mountain snow are forecasted to enter California on Saturday.
- A frontal system pushing southward will bring light lower elevation rain showers and higher elevation/mountain snow showers to the northern Great Basin and Pacific Northwest on Friday.
- Moderate to locally heavy showers are expected along the California coast, with accumulating snowfall in the Northern Coastal Ranges, Klamath Mountains, and Sierra Nevada.
- Gusty winds are anticipated, especially along mountain ranges.
Plains and Central U.S.:
- Above-average temperatures will surge into the northern and central Plains over the weekend, with highs into the 80s, which is 20-25 degrees above normal.
- Cooler temperatures will spread eastward from the Lower Great Lakes/Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley into the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic following recent cold front passage.
- The West and Plains will experience much above-average temperatures on Friday, expanding into the Mississippi Valley on Saturday.
- California will experience cooler temperatures on Saturday as a Pacific system moves inland.