Daily briefing

The same clipper that brought rain and stormy activity on Tuesday continues its trek east today, triggering much of the same weather. Also, a couple of disturbances in the West will have rain, storms and mountain snow hitting the Pacific Northwest, the lower Sierra Nevada and the Southwest. This, along with our tropical update, is available at 5 a.m. ET in our daily briefing.

Rain is spreading from Minnesota to New England this morning, thanks to the clipper system. The wet weather will continue slowly throughout today, making it as far south as the Mid-Atlantic. Embedded thunderstorms are possible in the lower Great Lakes and across the Northeast, too.

Gusty winds continue from the clipper system as well. The WindRadar shows gusts higher than 40 mph in some spots, with the highest gusts happening across Lakes Michigan and Erie, as well as the Appalachians.

A southwestern low-pressure system will trigger lower Sierra Nevada snow with rain and thunderstorms possible in Arizona and the Great Basin.

Further north, a storm system will shift into the Pacific Northwest, where rain and Cascade snow are expected starting after lunch local time, from Portland to Seattle.

The Southwest through Florida will be the warmest section in the U.S., with 80s and 90s possible. Cooler 60s and 70s will spread throughout the West Coast, through the lower elevations of the Rockies and into the Tennessee Valley and the Southeast. Thanks to the clipper system, 50s and low 60s are expected from the Dakotas to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Many will be in just the upper 40s across the Great Lakes.

Tropical Storm Melissa has formed in the Caribbean. However, it will stay in the Caribbean through this weekend, likely becoming a hurricane by Saturday.

We continue to monitor the tropics as the Atlantic Hurricane Season lasts until November 30.

If you are (or input a location) within 5 miles of the coast, you can see the marine conditions as well as the high and low tide times, here.