An active weather pattern will dominate so many of us through the next seven days as repeated rounds of thunderstorms bring risks for severe weather and flash flooding across the Plains. The greatest concerns through midweek focus on North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, West Texas, and New Mexico, where storms may produce damaging winds, large hail, isolated tornadoes, and locally heavy rainfall. As we head into the weekend, storm chances shift east toward the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Northeast, while summer heat expands across much of the Eastern U.S. Meanwhile, multiple Pacific systems will keep periods of rain returning to the Pacific Northwest. Heavy rainfall and the risk of severe weather affect parts of the Canadian Prairies.
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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.