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Weather Underground midday recap for Wednesday, May 21, 2008. A cold front continued moving very slowly southward through the Southeast towards the Gulf Coast. Deep moisture ahead of this front produced areas of heavy rain laced with thunderstorms along the Southeast Coast. Some of these thunderstorms produced damaging hail and wind. This precipitation waned in the late morning and afternoon as the moisture source was cutoff from the front.

Meanwhile, a cold front swept through the Great Lakes and into the Northeast. Rain fell along the front through much of New England. Scattered showers also fell in the Great Lakes.

In the West, an intense storm moved into the Great Basin and Northern Rockies. The main effect of the storm was the strong winds that it produced from the Southwest through California and into the western Plains. The storm also produced areas of rain in the Rockies and some snow in the Intermountain West.

The Northeast rose into the 50s and 60s, while the Southeast saw temperatures into the 70s and 80s. The Southern Plains rose into the 80s, 90s, and some 100s, while the Northwest saw temperatures in the 50s and 60s.

Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Wednesday have ranged from a morning low of 26 degrees at Mt. Washington, N.H. to a midday high of 102 degrees at Wink, Texas.