Colder temperatures and strong gusty winds to impact the Northeast into
Monday as snow continues to impact the northern Appalachians and portions
of the lower Great Lakes.

Unsettled weather is expected to persist across the Pacific Northwest
and into the northern Rockies with multiple rounds of lower-elevation rain
and higher elevation snow.

Fire danger to increase across the central and southern High Plains
from very dry conditions, gusty winds, and warm temperatures.

A strong area of low pressure will continue to impact the Northeast going
through tonight and early Monday with areas of locally heavy snow
continuing across portions of the northern Appalachians and especially the
higher terrain from the Adirondacks of New York up across the Green and
White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire respectively. A combination
of moisture wrapping around the deep low center and much colder air
pouring southeast from Canada will result in locally an additional 6 to 12
inches of snow before the snow begins to taper off by later Monday.
Meanwhile, the cold air pouring southeast over the lower Great Lakes will
yield a continuation of locally heavy lake-effect snow shower activity and
squalls. Portions of northwest Pennsylvania, western New York, and the
higher terrain of the central Appalachians are expected to see a few more
inches of snow this evening and overnight before the activity begins to
taper off early Monday.

In the wake of the gradually departing low center over the Northeast,
temperatures to start off the new week will be generally below normal
across the Eastern Seaboard and most of the Gulf Coast region. High
pressure will settle down across the region going through Tuesday before
then gradually advancing offshore. Temperatures are expected to begin
rebounding rather quickly for much of the East and the South by later
Tuesday as milder air from the Plains and Midwest advances east and
couples with warm air beginning to return north from the Gulf of Mexico.

Temperatures over the next couple of days will be well above normal across
especially the central and northern Plains and the Midwest which will then
gradually advance into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. High temperatures
across portions of eastern South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin
are forecast to be as much as 30 to 40 degrees above normal on Monday and
Tuesday with temperatures approaching or locally exceeding 70 degrees.
Some cities will likely be warm enough to see their daily high temperature
records either tied or broken.

Very warm temperatures over the central and southern High Plains are
expected going through the first half of the week, and this coupled with
increasingly gusty winds and low relative humidity will promote an
increased risk of wildfire activity. In fact, the Storm Prediction Center
has highlighted large areas of the central and southern High Plains in an
elevated to critical fire danger area. This will include the panhandles of
Texas and Oklahoma where devastating fires occurred a couple weeks ago.

Meanwhile across the Pacific Northwest, multiple low pressure systems
arriving from the Pacific will bring frequent rounds of precipitation
onshore and then farther inland into the northern Rockies early this week.
Moderate to locally heavy rain is expected for the coastal ranges with
heavy snow over the higher elevations of the Cascades, northern Sierra
Nevada, and the Sawtooth, Bitterroot, and Teton ranges of the northern
Rockies. As much as 1 to 2 feet of new snow can be expected, with
generally the heaviest totals expected over the Washington Cascades.