- Several pieces of energy will rotate into the northern Plains on Thursday and help to increase the severe weather threat into the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Iowa.
- Severe thunderstorms are likely to contain large hail, damaging winds and possibly a few tornadoes.
- Other thunderstorms will be scattered southward through the Plains Thursday.
- Highs generally in the 80s from the northern Plains to the Great Lakes (with some 70s around the lake shores).
- A few 90s are possible over the western half of Kansas and Oklahoma.
- Thursday's highs well into the 80s across the Ohio Valley.
- Additional severe weather will break-out across the northern Plains on Friday as hotter air begins to build across much of the region.
- Most thunderstorm activity will be confined to the Gulf Coast region along a stationary front on Thursday.
- Brief heavy downpours and frequent lightning can be expected, but most storms will not be severe.
- Isolated thunderstorms Thursday from the Tennessee Valley to the southern Appalachians.
- It should also be drier in the western sections of the Carolinas.
- Scattered thunderstorms can be expected down through the Florida Peninsula.
- Highs reach the 80s in the Southeast and the 90s west of the Mississippi River all the way through Texas.
- High pressure finally brings generally dry weather to the region over the next few days.
- Temperatures will be right around average for the season with highs mostly in the 70s (with a few low 80s in the Mid-Atlantic region).
- Warmer air does build throughout the region into the weekend and early next week with most areas going 5-10 degrees above average.
- A trough of low pressure aloft will keep the weather cool and unsettled across much of the Northwest Thursday.
- Look for scattered showers and thunderstorms from Washington to northern Oregon and eastward to northern Idaho and western Montana.
- Gusty winds across a good portion of Montana and across the Southwest.
- Gusty winds across the Southwest is not good news for fighting fires.
- Temperatures will be warm to hot with low humidity and gusty winds through the rest of the week.
- It will be cool across the Northwest with highs in the 60s to around 70 from Washington and Oregon to western Montana Thursday.
- Hot with highs of 95 to 110 degrees from southeast California and south Nevada to New Mexico.
