Weather

Much warmer days ahead; rains to return to the Heartland, centered on the southern Plains

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or below-normal temperatures in much of the eastern U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail from the Pacific Coast to the Plains, as well as the middle and upper Mississippi Valley.

Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation in parts of the interior Southeast and from the Pacific Northwest to the northern High Plains should contrast with wetter-than-normal weather across Florida’s peninsula, New England, and southern sections of the Rockies and Plains.