Overview
- National Weather Service guidance shows a Southwest storm shifting east through Thursday as a Pacific system arrives Friday into the weekend, delivering widespread low‑elevation rain and mountain snow.
- The Weather Prediction Center warns that heavy rain could cause localized flash flooding, especially in urban areas, on roads, along small streams, in narrow canyons and over burn scars.
- AccuWeather forecasts a central U.S. storm emerging from Texas and moving into the Midwest and Northeast on Nov. 25–26, with possible strong to severe thunderstorms and flight delays.
- Rain is expected to spread from the Southern Plains into the Mississippi and Ohio valleys Thursday into Friday, while the Pacific storm focuses its heaviest rainfall on Southern California.
- Cold air trailing the systems may generate snow over parts of Wisconsin and northern Michigan, and Climate Prediction Center outlooks favor a colder pattern after Thanksgiving into early December.