Severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are forecast to impact the central High Plains Wednesday, and larger central Great Plains on Thursday. Excessive rain may lead to flash flooding over eastern Texas into the Ark-La-Tex and the north-central High Plains Wednesday, over the northern High Plains on Thursday, and central Texas on Friday and Saturday. weather.gov | U.S. National Weather Service (NWS)

This week's preciptation forecast highlights heavy rain soaking the South where 3 " may fall over the lower MS valley. Mid-week the Desert Southwest will also see moderate rain, helping relieve drought conditons. Late-week there's potential for heavy snow in the southern Rockies. | NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center

WEATHER: We've put together a cool video-graphic to help visualize the setup for early next week. The model data and guidance has been remarkably consistent, leading to somewhat higher confidence on the overall evolution of this system. We should start to see the details (I.E., amounts and precip types) come into better focus throughout the day saturday. One interesting note- the energy responsible for this set up is still out over the Pacific Ocean. It's important when this energy comes ashore

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