Short Range Forecast Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 400 PM EDT Sat Jul 04 2020 Valid 00Z Sun Jul 05 2020 - 00Z Tue Jul 07 2020 ...Severe thunderstorms remain possible over the northern Plains for the next couple of days... ...A good chance of showers and storms will continue across the Deep South into the Southeast... ...Staying warm/hot in the Upper Midwest to the Great Lakes and across much of Texas... A slow-moving summer weather pattern will bring much of the same conditions to many areas in the U.S. for the rest of the weekend into early next week. Over the northern Plains, however, a frontal boundary will act as a focus for showers/rain and thunderstorms for the next couple of days. Some of the thunderstorms may become severe. To the east of this system, a ridge of high pressure will promote very warm temperatures from the northern Plains eastward across the Great Lakes into western New England. Over the Northeast, another back-door cold front will bring slightly cooler than normal temperatures back into coastal areas on Monday. Widely scattered showers/storms may accompany the first back-door front from the Mid-Atlantic to the central Appalachian as the front becomes nearly stationary. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue near and along a stationary frontal boundary from the Mid-South to the eastern half of the Gulf Coast region, with some potential for flash flooding due to some localized heavy rain totals. Over the southern portion of Texas to the south of the frontal boundary, high temperatures are forecast to reach the upper 90s and lower 100s for the next couple of afternoons. Meanwhile, remnant Saharan dust will continue to linger across the Gulf Coast region into Florida, but is forecast slowly fade day by day. The primary impacts of the Saharan dust are hazy skies during the day, locally reduced visibility, degraded air quality, and the potential for vividly colorful sunrises and sunsets. Southwesterly flow aloft over the Great Basin will support breezy conditions with low relative humidity values at the surface where the fire danger is elevated. Much of the West will remain dry through the Fourth of July weekend before the next upper-level disturbance could trigger thunderstorms across the interior Pacific Northwest with some rain near the coast on Monday. Kong Graphics available at www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/basicwx_ndfd.php