A front extending from the Great Lakes to the Southern Plains will move off the New England coast by Saturday evening. Showers and thunderstorms will develop along and ahead of the front from the Great Lakes/Southern Plains to the Northeast/Ohio Valley through Friday evening.
A developing upper-level low over the Northwest will sink southward to southern California before moving northeastward to the Central Rockies/Great Basin by Saturday evening. The system will produce rain from parts of the Northwest/northern California eastward to the Central/Northern Rockies through Saturday. At some of the highest elevations snow will be mixed in with the rain. Warm moist air will flow northward over the Plains/Mississippi Valley aiding in advancing a warm front northward from the Central Plains/Mid-Mississippi Valley to parts of the Upper Midwest by Saturday, triggering showers and thunderstorms over parts of the Central Plains/Lower Missouri Valley.
At 200 AM PDT, the center of Hurricane Bud was located about 130 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico and about 195 miles south of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico. Bud is moving toward the north-northeast near 8 MPH. A turn toward the north and a decrease in forward speed are expected during the next day or so. On the forecast track, the center of Bud is expected to make landfall in the hurricane warning area by late Friday. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 110 MPH, with higher gusts. Bud is a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale. Some weakening is forecast on Friday, but Bud is still expected to reach the coast of Mexico as a hurricane.
There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms for parts of the central Plains and mid-Missouri Valley through early Saturday. Severe thunderstorms are also possible for northern and western New York into northern Pennsylvania this afternoon and evening. Yesterday there were over 60 reports of severe weather including one tornado in Nebraska and one tornado in Wisconsin. High wind and hail reports were primarily scattered over the Midwest, eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
There are critical fire weather areas for southeastern California, southern Utah, southern Nevada, eastern and northern Arizona, much of New Mexico, and far western Texas.
