January is closing out with no shortage of winter weather. Frigid temperatures will dominate the eastern U.S. for the rest of the week as another round of arctic air spills southward starting Friday. The cold could break more records as far south as Florida. Meanwhile, forecasters are closely tracking a potentially significant East Coast winter storm this weekend that could bring heavy snow, strong winds, and coastal flooding from the Carolinas to New England. Out West, a soggy pattern continues in the Pacific Northwest, with rounds of rain and mountain snow.
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An active and impactful weather pattern is setting up across much of North America through next week. Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected from the eastern Canadian Prairies, U.S. Plains into the Mississippi Valley, bringing the risk of damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes. Heavy rainfall may lead to localized flooding from the Northern Plains to the Southeast, while wildfire concerns continue across the Four Corners region. At the same time, summer heat is building, with the East experiencing its hottest temperatures of the season late this week before above-average warmth expands westward during the weekend.