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A messy Thursday is in store for the East Coast and a good chunk of the West, while the nation’s midsection can enjoy relative peace and quiet.
The entire Eastern Seaboard from Florida to Maine will wake up to rain showers Thursday morning, with the heaviest rain falling across eastern portions of the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic. These showers will persist intermittently throughout much of the day for areas along the East Coast, though by late afternoon and evening, storms will begin to pull out of the Southeast as a cold front moves in. Showers are expected to linger overnight across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, primarily in areas along and east of the Interstate-95 corridor.
Shifting gears to the Western U.S., the same weather disturbance that crashed into the West Coast on Wednesday is expected to continue bringing widespread snow and rain showers to the Pacific Northwest, northern and central Rockies, Great Basin, and central California. Areas along and west of the Cascades can expect persistent rain throughout the day, with snow at higher elevations.
Further south and east, showers will be more scattered and intermittent throughout the day, with rain at lower elevations and snow at higher elevations. Overnight, there may also be some wintry precipitation that sneaks into parts of the northern High Plains.
Outside of a stray rain shower or two in the northern Ohio Valley during the late afternoon or evening, the rest of the country should be able to relish in some sunshine as high pressure remains dominant. This goes for much of the Midwest through the Deep South, Great Plains, and Southwest.
In terms of temperature, the coldest parts of the country will be in the Upper Midwest, Rockies, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest and Sierra Nevada, where temperatures will only reach the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Slightly warmer temperatures will be found in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio and Mid-Mississippi valleys, northern Plains, Four Corners, and the West Coast, where temperatures will hover in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Highs will reach the 60s and 70s throughout the Southeast, Deep South, central and southern Plains. The Desert Southwest, along with portions of southern Texas and southern Florida, will be the warmest parts of the nation, with highs in the 70s and 80s.