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A Spring preview locked in across much of the nation for the week’s midpoint will be bookended by an early May chill, including snowflakes, for the two northern U.S. corners.
As low pressure emerges onto the southern Plains late in the day, showers and thunderstorms will spread from Kansas to the Dakotas, Minnesota, and western Great Lakes throughout the day. By late afternoon and evening, a corridor from near Texas’ Big Bend to far southern Nebraska could be peppered by clusters of powerful thunderstorms. Large hail and gusty winds will be the main risks, although isolated tornadoes will be possible as well. Low-lying and urban flooding could also be an issue across the central and southern Plains, too.
Underneath the storm’s cold sector will be a blossoming band of accumulating snow for the higher mountaintops across northern and central Idaho and western and northern Montana. The heaviest snow totals will occur above 3,500 feet, where residents will be digging out from 2 inches to locally more than a foot by Thursday morning. Gusts as high as 35 to 40 mph will make driving a challenge in places such as Highway 83 from Bigfork to Swan Lake, Mont.
Eastern North Carolina, parts of New England to New York State, and the Sunshine State will likely have a hard time dodging raindrops for midweek. An all-day washout is not expected, thankfully.
The Western U.S. from the Northwest to most of the Four Corners and the Ohio Valley to much of the Eastern Seaboard, will experience calm weather as the calendar flips to May.
There will be quite a dichotomy in temperatures across the nation on the first day of May. Warm to hot 70s, 80s, and a few lower 90s will be commonplace from the Desert Southwest to the southern Plains and much of the East south of Interstates 80 and 90. Mild 60s and 70s will sneak across the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, as well as into western parts of southern New England.
The Golden State to the Wasatch and central and northern Rocky Front Range to the western Dakotas will be dominated by a cool start to May. Highs will range from the 60s and 70s to near 80 degrees across California, to the cold 40s, 50s, and 60s from the Northwest to Montana. The tallest mountains will have a hard time climbing out of the teens and 20s on Wednesday.
Stuck beneath a canopy of gray, much of New England will remain locked in a cold beginning to the month. Boston to Burlington, Vt., and Caribou, Maine, will not climb out of the lower to upper 50s.