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Stormy weather continues for the eastern third of the nation on Friday while other pockets of unsettled weather will make for a dreary end to the workweek for some.
The main driver behind storms in the East on Friday is not even in the United States but is rather a massive low-pressure system situated over Ontario, Canada. This low-pressure system will have a cold front draped to its south, extending from the Great Lakes down to the southern Plains. Along this front is where you will find a mix of rain showers and thunderstorms as they march east.
The morning will start off with a line of storms just west of the Appalachian corridor, extending from the eastern Great Lakes to the Deep South. This line of storms will gradually move east throughout the day, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms to the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast by the late afternoon and evening. Some lighter showers may also be present across portions of the southern Plains.
As evening arrives, storm coverage will pick up across parts of the southern Plains and along the Front Range and Rockies in Colorado. Rain and thunderstorms will be likely for the southern Plains, but the latter two regions may be in for a late season winter storm overnight.
A cold air mass will settle in over the northern and central Plains, setting the stage for a mix of rain and snow showers across the Colorado Rockies and Front Range, with snow becoming more likely with higher elevations. Accumulation amounts will not be anything eye-popping, but a couple inches of snow are not out of the question for these areas.
As for the rest of the nation, a few flakes of snow are possible across parts of the Upper Midwest while some isolated, pop-up showers are possible across the Great Basin during the late afternoon and evening. Folks elsewhere can enjoy a relatively quiet end to the week, including the West Coast, Southwest, northern Plains, and Upper-Mississippi Valley.
Temperatures across the nation will not be as warm as Thursday, but a few spots will still crack the 70s and 80s, including the Southeast, Deep South, southern Texas, Southwest, and California. Mild temperatures in the 50s, 60s, and 70s will exist across the rest of the central and southern Plains, Great Basin, Northwest, Mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. Folks in the Rockies, northern Plains, and Upper Midwest will still need their winter coats as temperatures range from the 20s to the 40s.