Today's Weather Outlook

If April showers bring May flowers, this weekend will host those showers that prepare May for its floral array.

In the Northeast, dry weather will continue throughout the day as high pressure dominates out and head of a low pressure system. Wet weather won’t move into the area until late tonight, where it will just be light rain. Dry weather conditions will persist through the East Coast, keeping the day dry for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast as well.

The Midwest, however, is not as fortunate and will experience a wet, rainy, and stormy day. A low-pressure system will continue to develop and strengthen over the Plains, bringing rain to the entire Midwest. This rain will be accompanied by stormy conditions that move eastward throughout the day. This line of thunderstorms has potential to produce storms that have severe hazards, such as damaging winds, large hail, a few tornadoes.

The Deep South will also experience wet, rainy, and stormy weather because of this system, bringing strong storms and heavy bouts of rain to Texas and moving eastward throughout Louisiana during the day. Severe storms are also possible in this region.

The Mountain West is not avoiding wet weather conditions today as rain and snow will plague the region during the entirety of the day. Rain will fall to the valley floors, and snow will accumulate along the higher mountainous peaks in the Rockies.

West Coast wet weather conditions do not halt today, as continued conditions bring rain and snow from Washington down through southern California. As moisture moves through the area, rain will continue to fall in coastal regions and lowland areas, while snow will stick to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.

Below-freezing temperatures will be limited to the mountainous peaks of the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada. Forties can be expected in the northern Northeast, northern Great Lakes, and foothills of the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada. Fifties will be present within the country among the Northeast, northern Great Lakes, lowland areas in the Rockies, and coastal regions of the West Coast from Washington through California. 

California’s Central Valley will also be in the 50s. Sixties, however, will be present within the northern Mid-Atlantic, northern Plains, and coastal southern California. Seventies will be present within the Mid-Atlantic, southern Great Lakes, central and southern Plains, Texas, and the Desert Southwest. Areas seeing 80s will be the Ohio River Valley through the Southeast, extending down into the Rio Grande Valley.