Overview

• A late‑week cold front is driving a pronounced cool-down in the Northeast, with highs in the 60s to low 70s and crisp nights this weekend.
• Frost and freeze alerts are posted for inland New England and northern Maine as lows dip into the 30s, and dry, breezy weather is elevating fire danger.
• Many southern and central U.S. locations remain warm and mostly dry through the weekend, with highs near 90 in parts of the Ohio Valley, Gulf Coast and Florida.
• Scattered showers and a few storms return this weekend into next week across the Midwest and Plains, including Saturday morning rain around Kansas City and multiple waves through midweek.
• Tropical Storm Gabrielle is forecast to turn north near Bermuda and may strengthen, while guidance keeps the system well offshore of the United States.