A threat of severe weather—including high winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes—will linger Wednesday in  the vicinity of a cold front stretching from the Great Lakes region into the mid-South. 

Eventually, the front will stall across the Deep South, leading to 5-day rainfall totals of 2 to 6 inches from the western Gulf Coast region to the Mississippi Delta.  In contrast, dry weather will prevail during the next 5 days across large sections of the Plains, Great Basin, and Southwest, including southern California.

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