Weather conditions in the United States will turn calmer this weekend from coast to coast after what has been an active final week of October.
Consider the wide-ranging weather impacts we've seen in parts of the country during the past seven days:
- Three bouts of dangerous fire weather conditions in California since last Thursday.
- Two rounds of early season snow from the Rockies into the Plains and Midwest Sunday through Thursday.
- All-time October record cold in parts of the West and adjacent Plains.
- Severe thunderstorms and flooding rain in the East on Halloween.
- Wind damage from former Tropical Storm Olga in an area from southeastern Louisiana to the Ohio Valley.
The weather pattern across the nation won't have any of these kind of impacts beginning later Friday and continuing through the weekend.
A broad southward plunge of the jet stream will be in place from the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes. Rippling through that band of strong upper-level winds will be a couple of weather disturbances.
But those disturbances won't have much luck tapping into moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. That's because cool, dry air will cover much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation.
What that means is there will be little precipitation across the United States through the weekend.
This all kicks off Friday, when much of the nation will be dry except for a few patchy areas of light snow in the upper Midwest and some lingering rain in South Florida.
Saturday's forecast has just a few rain or snow showers in the Great Lakes, as well as scattered rain showers in parts of the Florida Peninsula. The rest of the country should remain dry.
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