Friday starts off with temperatures in the 40s and 50s and plenty of sunshine. That sun will help heat temperatures up into the high 70s for Friday afternoon. Conditions will stay dry through Saturday, although Saturday will be breezy with wind gusts up to 30 mph.

A multiday outbreak of severe weather — including the potential for strong tornadoes — will begin Friday as a strong storm system barrels across the Lower 48. Parts of the Deep South, Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys and even the East Coast will be impacted by severe thunderstorms,