Weather Friday May 3 2024 IonWeather Fair in the northeast...Texas Floods .. St Louis severe weather

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The active weather pattern to continue across the Central to Southern
Plains with potential for additional severe weather, heavy rains and flash
flooding...
...Wetter weather pattern for the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic, along
with cooler weather...
...Strong front to move into the Pacific Northwest and northern California
this weekend producing widespread heavy precipitation and late season
mountain snows...
The recent active spring weather pattern across large portions of the
central U.S. expected to continue over the next few days. A surface
frontal boundary currently stretching from the Southern Plains into the
Great Lakes and a second front forecast to sink southward from the Central
Plains into the Southern Plains will be the focus for the potential for
additional showers and thunderstorms. Severe weather is possible across
portions of the Central to Southern Plains near these fronts, along with
heavy rains and localized flash flooding. Flood watches are currently in
effect across portions of southern Oklahoma, eastern Texas into northwest
Louisiana. Moderate to major river flooding is occurring across these
area from recent heavy rains, with additional heavy rain potential
possibly exacerbating ongoing flooding conditions. While conditions have
been wet across the Central to Southern Plains toward the Mid to Lower
Mississippi Valley of late, drier conditions have persisted farther to the
east. Some relief from the recent dry weather across the east on tap over
the next few days with some much needed rains falling from the Ohio Valley
into the Mid-Atlantic. Cooler temperatures also expected for the late week
and into the weekend across portions of the Northeast into the
Mid-Atlantic. Record high temperatures across portions of the
Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley on Thursday will replaced with much cooler
temperatures from a combination of cloud cover, rainfall and winds blowing
off the still cool western Atlantic.
A strong cold front will be pushing inland into the Pacific Northwest late
Friday and into northern California on Saturday. This front will be
producing some late season heavy precipiation totals across much of
northern California, north through the Oregon Cascades, southern
Washington Cascades and from the Olympic Range of Washington, southward
along the Washington and Oregon coasts. Late season snows are possible
through the Oregon and Washington Cascades and the northern to Central
Sierra Range with accumulations in excess of a foot possible across the
northern Sierra. In addition to the heavy precipitation and late season
snows associated with this strong front, temperatures will be much below
average across much of the West coast on Saturday with highs 10 to 20
degrees colder than average. These colder than average temperatures are
expected to persist through Sunday while also spreading farther inland
into the Great Basin and portions of the Southwest.