AccuWeather's Joe Lundberg looks ahead to the weather forecast for next week across the U.S. The Northeast is expected to remain cool while Texas through the Carolinas can experience wet weather.
00:00As we take a look at next week, Joe, all right, three things we need to be ready for or we will be discussing about next week.
00:08You know, I think one thing that's going to be at the top of the list is the fact that the cool weather is just not going away from the Great Lakes through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
00:16It'll be a little warmer than it has been the past couple of days, but it is still not going to be warm, certainly not feeling like we're going into June.
00:23It's going to be extraordinarily wet, unfortunately, from Texas to the Carolinas, a risk for severe weather and flooding.
00:28It's going to heat up in the West. In fact, you're going to see a very quick transition to summer in the western part of the country.
00:34Yeah. When you take a look at the rainfall, Joe, you had mentioned Texas toward the Carolinas.
00:39Watch as we go in the next week. Now, this is some of the rain we're going to see over the weekend.
00:44Then it expands eastward. By the way, more rain in the Mid-Atlantic.
00:48You told me two weeks ago, but by the time we got into June, that drought in the Mid-Atlantic will be over.
00:54And when we get the next drought index on Thursday, it'll be gone.
00:58Yeah. I mean, just look at some of the rain amounts over the past couple of days in the Mid-Atlantic.
01:01And there's been, you know, one to two inches in places and some places almost six inches in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
01:07Just an extraordinary nor'easter that worked its way off the coast.
01:11But we're talking about next week and there's going to be a series of impulses working their way slowly but surely eastward.
01:16There'll be some severe weather with that. I don't want to discount that.
01:19But I'm really concerned about the risk of flooding downpours that really begins this week.
01:23And then it expands slowly but surely eastward next week.
01:25And you can see why.
01:26There's going to be this dip in the jet stream that you see right in here.
01:29And that's going to suppress moisture to the south.
01:32So it's going to be targeting areas from Texas and Oklahoma, maybe southern Kansas and southern Missouri eastward
01:37into the lower Mississippi Valley and the Tennessee Valley.
01:40You'll at least have this nice little bubble high pressure system up here for the early and midweek period that dries things out
01:46and allows for it to get a little bit milder but still not summer-like.
01:49The summer-like warmth, that's heading out west with this big jump in the jet stream out west.
01:53You're going to see consistent sunshine and temperatures, 80s, maybe some 90s start to show up too.
01:57Joe, that dip in the jet stream across the central U.S. starts to head toward the coast over the weekend.
02:03And then you have to wonder, do we get a storm to form along the east coast late next week?
02:08Yeah, and I think that that's going to be very much tied to more disturbances trying to come down from the northwest in this general fashion.
02:15Does it pick this up, pull it northeastered into a storm system that would mean more rain for these areas?
02:21Or does it push it out to sea?
02:24Regardless, there's going to be another shot of cool air that comes in behind this feature for the end of next week and the start of June.
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02:37Jumping into June.
02:38Yes, and as we jump into June, I think that a sneak peek of the pattern you see next week repeats itself.
02:44In other words, you're going to see ridging here in the west.
02:45That means sunshine and widespread heat.
02:48Meanwhile, you're going to see a slow transition to summer across the Great Lakes in the northeast.
02:52And in between, disturbances coming this way are probably going to mean rounds of thunderstorms for the nation's midsection.
02:59AccuWeather long-range expert to crystal ball meteorologist Joe Lumberg.
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