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Sunny and warmer weather is on tap for a large section of the country for the next couple of days, except for the Northwest and the upper Midwest; plus, today’s US weather outlook and forecast.
Portions of the Southwest will see sunny weather and a warm up, as will portions of the Southeast and in particular the Northeast over the next couple of days. You can expect it to begin on Saturday.
Unfortunately, the Northwest will see just the opposite, with gloomy weather.
The forecast calls for mountain snow for the northern Rockies and cold weather for the upper Midwest and Great Lakes area.
Earlier in the week forecasters were reporting a potential nor’easter to arrive by the weekend disrupting travel, but now the storm forecast to begin strong development in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday will instead move off of the Carolinas further into the Atlantic as it heads Northeast.
Here is today’s US weather outlook based on the forecast from the National Weather Service.
Mostly rain his forecast for Washington and Oregon, with mixed precipitation for Northern and Eastern Washington; a wintry mix for northern Idaho and snow for the southern and eastern part of the state.
A wintry mix for the eastern half of Montana; snow throughout Wyoming; mostly snow for the western half of North Dakota, with mixed precipitation along the western edge; mostly a wintry mix for South Dakota with snow to the east; mixed precipitation for the northern half of Nebraska, with snow over the eastern third.
Snow his forecast for the southern two-thirds of Minnesota; snow throughout most of Iowa; snow for Western Wisconsin; a wintry mix for Western Michigan.
Rain for the northernmost section of California along the coast, clear for the remainder of the state clear; snow for Northeastern Nevada; snow for the northern half of Utah; snow for northern Colorado and through the central section of the state.
Clear for Arizona; mixed precipitation for southern and eastern New Mexico; mixed precipitation near El Paso.
South-central: Mostly clear for Kansas and Oklahoma.
Mixed precipitation in central and southern Indiana; a wintry mix for northern Kentucky, with rain throughout the remainder of the state; rain for the Eastern half of Tennessee and northern middle Tennessee;
Rain for eastern Texas; rain for most of Arkansas; rain for most of Louisiana with thunderstorms in the eastern portion of the state; thunderstorms for the southern half of Mississippi and Alabama; thunderstorms for the Florida Panhandle with rain along the East Coast; rain for southern and eastern Georgia.
Mixed precipitation is forecast for most of West Virginia and Western Virginia.
Mostly clear with a chance of some mixed precipitation near the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border.
Northwest & Northern Rockies: Seattle 49, Portland 56, Boise 41, Billings 46, Bismarck 27, Rapid City 40.
West & Southwest: San Francisco 62, Los Angeles 75, Reno 53, Las Vegas 67, Phoenix 70, Salt Lake City 38, Denver 45, Albuquerque 50, El Paso 58, San Antonio 51.
Midwest & Ohio Valley: Minneapolis 28, Chicago 34, Kansas City 37, Oklahoma City 44, St. Louis 37, Detroit 32, Cincinnati 43.
Central & South: Dallas 47, Houston 59, Memphis 46, New Orleans 61, Atlanta 57, Charlotte 53, Jacksonville 61, Tampa 72, Miami 77.
East: Norfolk 47, Washington 43, Buffalo 34, New York 39, Boston 36, Bangor 21.
