Lingering, heavy showers and locally severe thunderstorms across the South will end by mid-week.  Meanwhile, a slow-moving Pacific storm system will drift southward near the West Coast before pushing inland late in the week across southern California and the Southwest.  Much of California will experience a multi-day period of precipitation, including another round of high-elevation snow.  Valley rain in California could aggravate agricultural flood concerns, including the re-appearance of Tulare Lake.  Late in the week, the storm system will traverse the Rockies, central Plains, and Midwest. 

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