Shutterstock
A pattern of wet weather and severe thunderstorms begins today and will continue throughout the week for the south and southeast, while a cold front will dump snow and mixed precipitation over a large swath of the country’s midsection, Ohio Valley, and northeast beginning on Tuesday; plus more weather news and your forecast.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms will move across the South, heading east and northeast through the week. A cold front will also move into southern states beginning on Tuesday.
Today, thunderstorms will occur across a large swath of the south starting from Texas, eastward to include Oklahoma, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
Wet weather is on tap for the Ohio Valley, as well as all of Tennessee, central and northern Alabama, and northern Georgia.
The most severe thunderstorms will occur on Tuesday over eastern Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and along the Arkansas-Mississippi border.
On Wednesday, the most severe thunderstorms will be along the gulf affecting the southern portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle.
Thunderstorms will occur from Texas east to the Carolinas, and north to southern Kentucky and southern Virginia.
A large section of the country’s midsection, including portions of the northwest and the northern Rockies will see snowfall today, with heavy snow forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS) over all of Wyoming, most of Utah, and north-central Colorado, including Denver.
Today, snowfall will occur in the western areas of Washington and Oregon, most of Idaho, southern and western Montana, southwest South Dakota, most of Nebraska and Colorado, northern and western Kansas, northeastern and eastern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Iowa.
A wintry mix is forecast by the National Weather Service (NWS) for northern and eastern Arizona, most of New Mexico, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, southern and southeastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and southern Michigan.
Rainfall will occur over the Ohio Valley and surrounding areas today including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, the western edge of New York, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, the western edges of Virginia and North Carolina, Tennessee, central and northern Alabama, and northern Georgia.
West & Northwest: Seattle 42, Portland 42, Boise 33, Billings 30, Reno 34, Salt Lake City 26, San Francisco 56, Los Angeles 65, Las Vegas 64.
Southwest: Phoenix 64, Albuquerque 62, El Paso 70, Lubbock 71, San Antonio 71.
Central & North-Central: Bismarck 23, Rapid City 24, Kansas City 57, Oklahoma City 70, Dallas 70.
Upper Midwest & Ohio Valley: Minneapolis 29, Chicago 42, St. Louis 63, Detroit 46, Cincinnati 64.
South: Houston 74, New Orleans 73, Memphis 69, Atlanta 72, Charlotte 72, Jacksonville 75, Tampa 73, Miami 72.
East: Norfolk 72, Washington, D.C. 65, Buffalo 41, New York 55, Boston 49, Bangor 34.
