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Here’s where weather will cause travel challenges for Memorial Day Weekend

A regional break down of rain chances and temperatures

What areas could see weather delays

Memorial Day is one of the busiest travel days nationwide, and weather can be a headache for travelers.

This Memorial Day weekend, the general pattern keeps showers and thunderstorms across the plains into the southeast. However, the highest severe risk is across Oklahoma and Kansas Friday through Sunday.

The weather is easygoing on the West Coast. In the interior northwest, there is a chance for rain and snow showers in the Montana and Wyoming mountain ranges.

Best chance for storms through Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.
Storm chances continue across Oklahoma.
Best chance for strong to severe storms across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.

Texas will remain hot and humid as rain chances stay mainly to the north ahead of a cold front.

Rain chances gradually increase as the cold front tries to push south, but the jury is still unsure whether it will reach SE Texas. The cold front and parent low pressure will bring storm chances into the southeast Sunday through next week.

Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop along low pressure, cold front and warm front
Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop along low pressure, cold front and warm front

The Northeast has a low-pressure system spinning cool, breezy, and rainy days into New England, Pennsylvania, and New York. New England is holding on to the dreary weather through at least Saturday. By Memorial Day, temperatures rise as the low pressure exits; instead of the 50s and 60s, temperatures warm to the upper 60s to mid-70s.

Showers and storms wrapping around a low
Unusually cool for Mid-west into New England

Temperatures remain hot across the the Southwest into Southeastern United States.

Warming up across the northern half of the country

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