A look at the 7-day max temperature forecast highlights the impressive cold in the West & the summer-like conditions in the East into mid-week. A more autumn-like regime arrives in the Midwest, Great Lakes, & Northeast late week. To view these forecast maps please visit this link: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/exper/ndfdmxmn/map.html | NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center

Shown here is an animation of WPC forecast maps for the U.S. for the next 7 days. Showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of tropical depression 16-E are expected to taper off during the next few days from across the Desert Southwest into the central Plains. Up to a few inches of rain can be expected in the central Plains. Our attention will then shift to the East Coast where a low pressure center is forecast to form off the Carolina coast and continue to linger just off the mid-A