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Related: About this forumWelcome back fall: Big front to bring sudden end to summery weather in the East.
Strong to severe storms with strong winds and a slight tornado risk are possible Friday and Saturday.
'A strong autumn cold front is sweeping across the Lower 48, bringing a sharp drop in temperatures and a few strong to severe storms. Its one of several fronts that will gradually cause the stair-step drop in warmth associated with the changing seasons, replacing summerlike mildness in the East with a dry, crisp autumnal air mass by Sunday.
The fronts parent storm system already dropped up to 28 inches of snow on parts of the Rockies as it unleashed a surge of cold air in the mountains before bringing severe weather to the Great Plains. Nearly two dozen tornadoes were reported, concentrated heavily in northwest Kansas and Oklahoma on Tuesday and in northeastern South Dakota and western Minnesota on Wednesday.
Now in a weakened state, the front is still surging east and will present at least some severe weather risk, albeit less widespread. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center issued a slight risk of severe weather, or Level 2 out of 5, for parts of the Tennessee and Ohio valleys Friday, with a marginal risk, or Level 1 out of 5, in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday.
As of midday Friday, the front stretched from near Buffalo to Little Rock, Ark., and into southeastern Texas, where it was slowly approaching Houston and Galveston.'>>>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/15/cold-front-severe-weather-east/?
2naSalit
(86,379 posts)Left us in a chill with w good foot of snow that has now, mostly, melted off. Highs now in the 50s and 60s, freezing at night. And then it will get cold by Wed. next week. Seasons change overnight around here.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Down to 40s overnight, thankfully!
elleng
(130,773 posts)and heading DOWN Sunday.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)42 Sunday. Chilly, but a welcome respite to this awful heat. 👍
AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)note : sonora , ebbets and monitor passes , sierra nevada range , western slope to close indefinatly for winter . been in the 30s . its here .
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)An end to summer?!
Yayy!🍁🍂🍃🎃
So looking forward to the crisp cool air of fall! Finally it will feel like October.
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)It's supposed to dip down to 39 here and I don't want to turn my heat on yet! 🥶