Today's Weather Outlook

A calendar flip to June will deliver quieter weather nationally, although there will remain a few weather hiccups plus a battle between spring and summer warmth.

Light rain and showers will hang around across northern New England, perhaps ending just in time for the weekend to end in northern Vermont and Maine. Scattered showers will also multiply near Interstate 90 in New York State to western and central Massachusetts. Even though an all-day washout isn’t expected, plentiful cloud cover will keep the weather quite chilly for most.

A pair of fronts, one draped from the Carolinas to Middle Mississippi Valley, and the other in south-central and southern Florida to a weak storm system in the southern Plains, will fuel waves of contentious weather throughout the day. Most shower and thunderstorm activity will bubble in the afternoon and evening, though a cluster or two may follow along and east of the Interstate 35 corridor from Oklahoma City to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and as far south as Austin, Texas. Large hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain will be possible.

Rain and thunderstorms will be on the weather menu across parts of the West, particularly in southwestern to northeastern Montana and across the Arizona and southern California deserts. The rain may be heavy enough to produce urban or localized flash flooding across the Southwest. In the meantime, a few thunderstorms in Montana could pack large hail or gusty winds.

The remainder of the nation will soak up plenty of sun to finish the weekend, especially for the northern and central Plains to the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and along the West Coast.

The coldest temperatures will be found from New York State to New England. Even bigger cities along the Interstate 95 corridor farther south in the Mid-Atlantic, Carolinas, and parts of Florida will remain largely below normal. Highs will only reach the 50s and 60s over New England, to the 70s to near 80 degrees in the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas, with upper 80s to near 90-degree readings limited to the Sunshine State.

Seasonably cool to cool temperatures will also dot the Southeast, Deep South, southern Plains, southern California and Arizona, and the Pacific beaches. Sixties and 70s will be common near the coast and taller terrain, with 80s to lower 90s limited to the deserts near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Toasty weather will dominate everywhere else. This includes widespread 80s to lower and middle 90s blanketing California’s Central Valley to the Dakotas and Minnesota. Warm 70s and 80s will surround this zone from the western Great Lakes to the Rocky Front Range. The mercury will climb near the century mark across central and southern Texas.