Overview
- A midweek cold front is ending the D.C. region’s heat wave, with forecasts calling for highs in the 50s and 60s and periods of rain through the holiday weekend.
- Across the Southeast, onshore winds are driving daily afternoon thunderstorms and a high risk of rip currents along Atlantic beaches.
- Rain chances in Southeast Georgia and along the Gulf Coast tick up into the weekend as a stalled boundary lifts north, though most places still see more dry hours than wet.
- The West stays warm and mostly dry under high pressure before marine clouds return to the Pacific coast and ease temperatures into Memorial Day.
- Metro Detroit is clearing downed trees after confirmed thunderstorm gusts up to 76 mph, and a cooler, calmer stretch is now settling over the Great Lakes.