As cool air finally overspreads the West for the first time in nearly a month, early-season warmth will become focused across the southern and eastern U.S.
The pattern change will be accompanied by increasingly stormy weather, with some of the heaviest precipitation (2 to 4 inches or more) over the next 5 days falling from the southeastern Plains into the Great Lakes States, eastward into New England. Snow will blanket higher elevations of the western U.S., while periods of wintry precipitation—snow, sleet, and freezing rain—will fall across the North.
Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms may affect areas along and east of a line from Texas to Michigan, while mostly dry weather (and an elevated wildfire threat) will persist on the southern High Plains. Precipitation will struggle to push eastward into the southern Atlantic States, amid building warmth.
