Look head: Severe weather in Plains and Midwest; Cool in East

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AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno and Joe Lundberg look ahead to next week's weather. The Plains and Midwest can expect more severe storms, while the East will have cooler weather.

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00:00Joe, let's talk about what we're looking at next week.

00:02All right, severe weather is going to rear its ugly head once again,

00:05and I think Tuesday and Wednesday at the front and center of the Midwest

00:08into the Plain State from a pretty significant cold front

00:11that's going to come into the east late next week

00:13and may bring some relief into the east next week in May.

00:18There's still some question marks as to how far south and east in that front will get.

00:22We'll explain that in a moment.

00:23It's going to be hot, mainly dry in the west.

00:24The concern with that is that, unfortunately,

00:27wildfires may start to increase out in the west.

00:30Joe, when you take a look at rainfall over the last 30 days,

00:33boy, it's been dry in the west, which is, listen, that's common for this time of the year.

00:37But a lot of rain east of the Rockies.

00:40Yeah, obviously, you know, you focus on, you know, the big rains,

00:44the devastating floods across portions of the Texas Hill Country,

00:47but there's been a lot of rain there.

00:49And you notice here in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin,

00:53you've seen some pretty hefty rains as well.

00:55It doesn't include the heavy rains that fell in here last night

00:58in the Chicagoland area, where they're dealing with some flash flooding this morning.

01:02You've also seen quite a bit of rain here in the mid-Atlantic states as well.

01:06So it's been a pretty wet pattern across a big part of the country.

01:09And I don't know that it's going to change an awful lot.

01:12Now, there may be less of it in the nation's midsection as we go through next week.

01:16But, you know, if you look at the U.S. drought monitor,

01:18we're in pretty good shape across a lot of the country.

01:19We need more in here.

01:21We're getting some right now.

01:22And there's another front that's going to come through

01:24that could cause some more wet weather as we go through next week.

01:27Joe, the big highlights as we head into next week.

01:32Well, it's going to be hot and dry in the west.

01:33And as a result of that, I'm concerned that the fire danger is going to be elevated.

01:38The dip in the jet stream in the east,

01:40you're going to be seeing some more severe weather in here.

01:42That's Tuesday, Wednesday.

01:43That's a front that's going to continue to press eastward.

01:46The south and the east, you're going to see some unsettled weather.

01:48It's very warm, not necessarily hot, but humid, slow-moving thunderstorms,

01:53a risk of flooding.

01:54Eventually, as that front comes into the east,

01:56if it can clear the eastern seaboard,

01:58we can have some relief from the heat and humidity

01:59for a couple of days, maybe next weekend.

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