The Weather Prediction Center has issued a level 1 out of 4 "marginal' risk" for excessive rainfall Monday and a level 2 "slight' risk" for excessive rain Tuesday.

"Rainfall totals as this time look to be on the order of 2 to 4 inches," the weather service in New York wrote.

"Hopefully, this scenario does not come to fruition as this would lead to widespread flooding issues," writes the New York weather office.

Winds are the other issue; the closer this storm tracks to the Northeast coast, the more robust the winds will feel to people living along the coastline.

But, like was mentioned in last week's pop-up weather newsletter, it was the related "atmospheric river" that has caused the greatest impact to the West Coast.

You can read more about the ongoing impacts of the atmospheric river and when it will wind down here.

Enhanced severe threat midweek

As the storm in the West continues to track east on Tuesday, it will bring with it the threat for severe storms across the central states.

A level 3 out of 5 "enhanced" risk for severe storms has been issued across the central and southern Plains for Tuesday.

Overall, the severe storm threat encompasses over 20 million people including Wichita, Kansas; Oklahoma City; and Fort Worth, Texas.

"Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with large hail, wind damage and an isolated tornado threat are expected across parts of the southern and central Plains from late Tuesday afternoon through the evening into the overnight," the Storm Prediction Center said Monday morning.

This storm system comes right on the heels of another system that brought damaging tornadoes to areas of Missouri and Illinois over the weekend.

On Wednesday, this severe storm threat will shift south into the Gulf Coast, where a level 2 out of 5 "slight" risk of severe storms has been highlighted.

And that is because Halloween weather is looking pretty good for most this weekend.

Apart from the aforementioned second storm departing the Northeast -- bringing rain from the Appalachians northward on Saturday and lingering in New England Sunday -- and a few scattered showers across the mountain West, the rest of the country is looking dry for the weekend.

Temperatures will be above normal through the central US on Saturday but quickly cool off in the northern and central Plains Sunday -- 15 to 20 degrees colder than the day prior.