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(NWS) – Critical fire weather conditions will continue for parts of the Central/Southern Plains. Dangerous fire weather conditions will continue through most of the week. Another late season snowstorm is forecast for the Central Plains into parts of the Upper Midwest that may bring localized snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches.
The late season snowfall event is currently underway across the northern and central Plains. This area of snow and thunderstorms will continue moving eastward into the Upper Midwest and middle Mississippi Valley this morning and lasting through the afternoon. A band of heavy snow is expected in Iowa and will mostly occur late morning into early afternoon. By this evening, the snow will push across the southern portions of the Upper Great Lakes–with rain moving from the middle Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley. The associated surface low will slide into the Northeast by late tonight into early Thursday morning–with rain spreading across the Northeast southward into the central Appalachians. Most of the snow will be confined closer to the lower Great Lakes and the interior of New England. As the surface low moves into the Canadian Maritimes by Friday morning, light showers and snow will linger over New England. The dangerous fire weather conditions will extend into Thursday from the Southwest into the central and southern Plains. An elevated risk of fire weather is expected today from southwest Kansas southward toward the western portions of the Red River Valley. By Thursday, another round of extremely critical fire weather conditions will be concentrated from central Arizona into western New Mexico. See the Storm Prediction Center fire weather products for further information. Another system will approach the West Coast by this afternoon and increase scattered showers and higher elevation snow across California, central Great Basin, and the southern portions of the Pacific Northwest. Accumulating snow will continue across the mountains of Nevada, southern Utah and the southern Rockies on Thursday as the the system moves eastward over the Southwest. By Thursday, showers and thunderstorms will increase across the Big Bend region of Texas into the central High Plains while snow will expand over the central and southern Rockies. Thunderstorms that develop along the Big Bend will have the potential to become severe. Consequently, the Storm Prediction Center has issued a slight risk.
-Reinhart / National Weather Service
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