Weather map above is for Thursday evening. High pressure over New York is bringing dry but chilly air to Northeast. Low is Gulf States will head north and bring rain to much of the Eastern third of the Nation Friday/Saturday. It will then team up with low in Dakotas to bring some chilly air to Northeast by late weekend.
Satellite shows some heavy convection in the Gulf ( yellow and oranges). That heavy rain will affect the south today and then the East this weekend.
Above... amounts of rain for this weekend. Blue = 1" and that extends from Ohio Valley to Southern New England.
More heavy rain for the Pacific Northwest.
More heavy rain for the Pacific Northwest.