31.   Abundant sunshine will reign near the ocean, but some puffy clouds will develop across the northern Appalachians.

32.   Afternoon storms will develop across the Rocky Mountains.

33.   Broken areas of generally light snow will develop across upstate New York and northwest New England associated with a cold front extending southward from a low-pressure system in Ontario.

34.   But a new Minnesota-Seattle rivalry would develop across the northern and northwestern states.

35.   Clouds and showers will also develop across the Southeast, where a declining front will provide the necessary lift for pockets of rain to grow.

36.   Clouds will develop across Texas and parts of the Rocky Mountain states as an upper-level low-pressure zone moves southeast from Idaho.

37.   Clusters of showers and thunderstorms will develop across parts of Nebraska and Kansas as the arriving disturbance lifts increasingly moist air streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico.

38.   Elsewhere, afternoon showers will also develop across parts of the Southwest.

39.   Farther north, midday and afternoon thundershowers will develop across the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys.

40.   Farther to the south, showers and thunderstorms will develop across the southern Gulf Coast states.