--High pressure provided a relatively quiet day in the Northeast on Sunday. Farther south, however, a storm system over the Florida Panhandle brought drenching rain to the eastern Gulf Coast before advancing towards the Southeast Coast. Over an inch of rain doused cities and towns from Alabama to South Carolina. Dry conditions returned to the lower Mississippi Valley as high pressure followed the system onto the southern Plains. Farther north on the Plains, a bit of drizzle dampened eastern Minnesota to Missouri along a boundary between advancing cool air and the milder air in place. The day started off with more windswept rain and heavy mountain snow in the Pacific Northwest. Winds gusted past 80 mph in spots along the coast, downing trees and damaging buildings. Power was knocked out in a handful of counties in western Oregon and Washington. Over half of a foot of snow piled up in the Cascades. Snow also began falling over the northern Rockies, where snowfall totals neared one foot in the highest elevations of Idaho and Wyoming as the system moved inland.