National Weather Service forecasters say nearly continuous onshore flow will keep California and portions of the Pacific Northwest in a very active, wet pattern this weekend. Rain and mountain snow is forecast for much of the western U.S. as a deep upper-level low and associated surface cold front pushes inland. Heavy rainfall is expected for the coastal areas and the nearby mountains, with some locations getting in excess of 4 inches of rainfall by Saturday morning (2/16). The extent of this on

Here is a preview of the weather you can expect this week across the country. It appears that some much needed rainfall will linger over the eastern U.S. from the middle to the latter part of this week as an anomalous upper-level low drops southward from the Great Lakes region into the Appalachians. The upper low could help form a coastal front and low pressure waves near the mid-Atlantic coast, spreading rain northward into New England Friday and Saturday. For further details, check the latest

Shown here is an animation of WPC forecast maps for the U.S. for the next 7 days. Showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of tropical depression 16-E are expected to taper off during the next few days from across the Desert Southwest into the central Plains. Up to a few inches of rain can be expected in the central Plains. Our attention will then shift to the East Coast where a low pressure center is forecast to form off the Carolina coast and continue to linger just off the mid-A

The latest precipitation forecast over the next 7 days shows an axis of heavy rain stretching from the Central Plains into the Northeast. Central and southern Florida is also forecast to receive a few inches of rain over the next week. | NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center

Here's the precipitation forecast for this week. Heavy rain in the Northeast could cause flash flooding over the next couple of days--see our excessive rainfall outlooks here: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/#page=ero. Other hotspots for rain include the Southwest, south-central U.S., and Midwest. | NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center