Snow, storms stretch from Plains to Great Lakes
Wednesday, April 19, 2006; Posted: 8:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 GMT)
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? (AP) -- Forecasters predicted snow showers and thunderstorms from the high Plains to the Great Lakes on Wednesday, and the West was expected to be clear and dry.
A system was expected to bring snow to parts of the Plains and mostly light to moderate rain and thunderstorms to the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes.
Meanwhile, another system was forecast to move into the Mississippi Valley, generating scattered showers and thunderstorms in parts. It is expected to then move through parts of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and Southeast.
In the West, conditions were expected to be warm and clear, with the exception being northwest Washington, where some light rain was expected as a Pacific front approaches from the northwest.
In the Northeast, dry, warm conditions were expected, with afternoon highs in the 60s and 70s expected.
The heat wave in the Deep South was expected to ease up a bit, although parts of southwest Texas may again experience temperatures in the triple digits.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Tuesday ranged from a low of 7 degrees in Copper Mountain, Colorado, to a high of 107 degrees in Laredo, Texas.
