Snow gradually tapering off over the central High Plains as well as
central/southern Rockies.

Threat of flash flooding and severe weather expected to sweep across
the Deep South to the Southeast the next couple of days.

An intensifying low pressure system will bring locally heavy rain and
strong winds from the Ohio Valley to New England late Saturday into
Sunday.

Wet snow expected across the Great Lakes to northern New England late
Saturday to Sunday as next round of rain and mountain snow reaches the
Pacific Northwest.

The mid-section of the country will be in an unsettled pattern with active
to locally severe weather into the weekend as upper-level Pacific moisture
in association with a subtropical jet stream will interacts with a cold
air mass dipping into the center of the country. Meanwhile lower-level
moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will be ingested into the system as well.
 These complex interactions will result in an axis of heavy rain and
possibly severe weather to develop over the Lower Mississippi Valley
spreading across the Gulf states and into the Southeast by Saturday. The
Storm Prediction Center has Slight Risks in effect for sever weather
through Sunday morning for parts of the Deep South and Southeast. The
Weather Prediction Center has Moderate an Slight Risks in effect for much
of the same region for excessive rainfall and flooding concerns.

Meanwhile to the north, a low-level disturbance that has been sustaining
locally heavy snow over the central High Plains is forecast to weaken and
allow the snow there, as well as the snow over the central to southern
Rockies, to gradually taper off into this evening.  By Saturday, a low
pressure center is forecast to consolidate over the Ohio Valley when the
system intensifies more rapidly and tracks northeastward into the lower
Great Lakes Saturday night. This will lead to areas of locally heavy rain
along with increasingly strong and gusty winds to develop from the Ohio
Valley to New England late Saturday into Sunday.  Colder air wrapping
around the low pressure center is expected to change the rain to wet snow
from across the Great Lakes to portions of northern New England especially
for the higher elevations.

In the wake of these systems high pressure will build in over the central
U.S. and will promote drying out Saturday. The dry weather will extend
into much of the western U.S. However, moisture associated with the next
Pacific system is forecast to reach the Olympic Peninsula later today with
rain for the lower elevations and snow for rather high elevations.  The
rain and mountain snow will expand southward across Oregon and into
northern California on Saturday into Saturday night.  The Cascades will
see snow picking up intensity on Saturday as the next batch of moisture
gets ready to reach the coastline of the Pacific Northwest by early on
Sunday.