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

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An afternoon view of North America via NOAA's GOES-East satellite shows the clouds and thunderstorms along a cold front pushing across the Midwest and Plains today. | NOAA Satellite and Information Service