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

The active weather pattern to continue across the Central to SouthernPlains with potential for additional severe weather, heavy rains and flashflooding......Wetter weather pattern for the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic, alongwith cooler weather......Strong front to move into the Pacific Northwest and northern Californiathis weekend producing widespread heavy precipitation and late seasonmountain snows...The recent active spring weather pattern across large portions of thecentral U.S. expected to continue over the next few days.  A surfacefrontal boundary currently stretching from the Southern Plains into theGreat Lakes and a second front forecast to sink southward from the CentralPlains into the Southern Plains will be the focus for the potential foradditional showers and thunderstorms.  Severe weather is possible acrossportions of the Central to Southern Plains near these fronts, along withheavy rains and localized flash flooding.  Flood watches are currently ineffect across portions of southern Oklahoma, eastern Texas into northwestLouisiana.  Moderate to major river flooding is occurring across thesearea from recent heavy rains, with additional heavy rain potentialpossibly exacerbating ongoing flooding conditions.  While conditions havebeen wet across the Central to Southern Plains toward the Mid to LowerMississippi Valley of late, drier conditions have persisted farther to theeast.  Some relief from the recent dry weather across the east on tap overthe next few days with some much needed rains falling from the Ohio Valleyinto the Mid-Atlantic. Cooler temperatures also expected for the late weekand into the weekend across portions of the Northeast into theMid-Atlantic.  Record high temperatures across portions of theMid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley on Thursday will replaced with much coolertemperatures from a combination of cloud cover, rainfall and winds blowingoff the still cool western Atlantic.A strong cold front will be pushing inland into the Pacific Northwest lateFriday and into northern California on Saturday.  This front will beproducing some late season heavy precipiation totals across much ofnorthern California, north through the Oregon Cascades, southernWashington Cascades and from the Olympic Range of Washington, southwardalong the Washington and Oregon coasts.  Late season snows are possiblethrough the Oregon and Washington Cascades and the northern to CentralSierra Range with accumulations in excess of a foot possible across thenorthern Sierra.  In addition to the heavy precipitation and late seasonsnows associated with this strong front, temperatures will be much belowaverage across much of the West coast on Saturday with highs 10 to 20degrees colder than average. These colder than average temperatures areexpected to persist through Sunday while also spreading farther inlandinto the Great Basin and portions of the Southwest.