Weekend Weather Outlook

A soggy, stormy pattern will happen this weekend, particularly from the central to eastern U.S. Meanwhile, blazing heat will be in the forecast across most of the West.

Saturday

Rain, showers, and thunderstorms will be plentiful from the nation’s midsection into the Mississippi Valley and Deep South to begin the weekend. Some of the more intense thunderstorms will pack damaging wind gusts and large hail in addition to flooding rain, with the outside chance of a tornado or two.

Cities crisscrossing from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to Birmingham, Ala., Atlanta, and Nashville will need to be the lookout for dangerous weather.

A familiar pattern, like many recent Saturday’s since May, will percolate across the eastern U.S. again. This time, rain and thunderstorms, a few which may be strong, will cover the sky from Maine to parts of the Carolinas throughout the day. Repetitive activity, especially over the northern Appalachian Spine to southern and central New England, could lead to urban and low-lying flooding.

Meanwhile, the western High Plains to the Pacific beaches will revel beneath a canopy of sunshine and largely toasty temperatures.

Warm to sizzling weather will blanket the western U.S. where highs will jump into the 80s, 90s, and triple-digits. Only the tallest Colorado Rocky Front Range peaks will stay in the cool 40s and 50s, while the Pacific beaches will climb to the upper 60s to lower 70s. The remainder of the nation will warm into the 70s, 80s, and 90s, with the south-central Plains to the Tennessee Valley a bit cooler than normal.
 
Sunday

A near rinse-and-repeat pattern is expected to end the first full weekend in June. A complex weather set up will exist, with large, strong low pressure in central Canada triggering plenty of showers and thunderstorms from the Dakotas and western Great Lakes to the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles throughout Sunday. Thunderstorms may be quite potent around the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles late in the day, with very large hail, gusty winds, and a few tornadoes possible.

Afternoon and evening thunderstorms could be problematic from the Deep South into the Carolinas, while rain and thunderstorms will accompany an area of low pressure swinging through the eastern Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. Gusty winds will be the main concern in addition to locally intense, flooding rainfall along the Interstates 10, 20, and 40 corridors as well as along Interstate 95 from Virginia to southeastern Georgia.

A few thunderstorms could interrupt outdoor plans in northern Florida and along parts of the Colorado and Wyoming Rocky Front Ranges, with generally quiet weather anticipated everywhere else nationally.

Cooler weather will filter into the northern and central Plains to the Tennessee Valley, Deep South, and Mid-Atlantic. Sixties in North Dakota and Minnesota will warm to the lower 80s in the Deep South.

Toasty weather will expand across the West and U.S. Southern-Tier. This is where 80s, 90s, and 100s will be commonplace. Meanwhile, mild middle 70s to 80-degree readings will blanket New York State into New England on Sunday.