National Fire News

A cold front will slowly move through the Southeast through the weekend with wetting rain for the Gulf Coast and Southeast, but only light rain for Florida. Drier weather will return behind the front with persistently dry conditions expected across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley the next week. Temperatures will also rise to above normal for the southern Plains next week, with breezy west winds at times that could create areas of elevated conditions for West Texas. Farther north, several cold fronts are expected to move from the northern Plains to the Appalachians and East Coast reinforcing the below normal temperatures. Precipitation will be light overall and mainly in the form of snow from the northern Plains through the Great Lakes into the Northeast. A stronger and warmer storm is possible mid-next week for the Great Lakes and Northeast with more widespread wetting precipitation, and more likely to be mixed phase in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. For the West, upper-level ridging over California and the Southwest will continue to bring dry conditions and above normal temperatures. In the northern third of the West, a faster westerly flow aloft will result in periods of precipitation and above normal temperatures. A strong atmospheric river is expected next week with heavy rain for the Northwest and northern Rockies, with snow levels remaining high. Cold temperatures will continue across Alaska with localized breezy northeast winds.