Away from the persistently unsettled Gulf Coast, dry weather will aboundacross the nation for Sunday's celebration of Independence Day.From the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley to the Eastern Seaboard, a major warmingtrend will get into full swing under strong sunshine as the center of formerlycool high pressure shifts out to sea. Temperatures will climb to between 85 and90 F in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, as they will along the I-95corridor from Boston to Washington, D.C.
A corridor open to a few thunderstorms will stripe the midsection from thesouthern Plains to the Upper Midwest, including Kansas City and Minneapolis-St.
Paul.
However, showers and drenching thunderstorms will abound in sultry air coveringFlorida to Louisiana, Arkansas and coastal Texas.
High pressure off the Pacific coast will cause dry weather to hold sway overthe western third of the nation. Onshore winds will cool the coast as theybring the usual early summer low clouds to Southern California. Normal earlysummer heat will bake the Desert Southwest.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews
