Rain From The Great Lakes To Gulf Coast – National Weather Outlook For October 19, 2023

by | Oct 19, 2023 | Weather

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National Weather Forecast

A system moving through the Great Lakes will bring showers and storms from there to the Gulf Coast on Thursday. A trough will also bring storms across portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern Atlantic coasts. A system moving into British Columbia could bring a few showers to far northwestern Washington, but most of the rain will stay north of the Canadian border.

Rain through the end of the week will mainly be across the eastern half of the nation, with the potential of an inch or two for some locations.

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