Author: Cabarrus Weekly

UNITED STATES — The 2026 tornado season is ramping up in dramatic fashion, with a multi-day severe weather setup expected to stretch from Texas and Oklahoma northward into the Midwest before shifting toward Dixie Alley early next week. Forecast outlooks issued March 2–3 outline an active pattern from Wednesday through Saturday, with tornado chances, large…

NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA — A short-term precipitation forecast surprise unfolded Tuesday morning as sleet began falling across parts of north New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania, even though short-range models had projected mainly snow. Real-time public reports indicate sleet mixing in or dominating in areas including: Scranton Wilkes-Barre Hazleton Allentown Portions of northern New Jersey near Vernon…

UNITED STATES — An active and potentially dangerous severe weather pattern is expected to unfold from Wednesday, March 4 through Friday, March 6, stretching from the southern Plains into parts of the Midwest. Forecasters highlight large hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes as possible hazards, with very large hail (2 inches or greater) specifically noted…

UNITED STATES — A broad corridor of severe weather potential is expected to develop Friday, March 6, 2026, stretching from Texas northward through Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa and into parts of Illinois and southern Wisconsin. The latest severe weather outlook highlights a concentrated zone of higher probabilities centered from central Oklahoma through eastern Kansas and into…

WESTERN OKLAHOMA & TEXAS PANHANDLE — Thursday, March 5, 2026 could mark the season’s first organized batch of widely scattered supercells across the southern Plains, with severe storms expected to develop late in the day and intensify into the evening. Forecast guidance indicates a Level 2 out of 5 “Slight Risk” of severe weather, centered…

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — The meteorological winter of December 2025 through February 2026 has officially become the warmest winter ever recorded in Phoenix, setting a new benchmark in a climate record that dates back to 1896. Data shows the average temperature for the season reached 64.0°F, surpassing the previous record set just one year earlier during…

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the Volcano Islands region of Japan early March 2, 2026 (UTC), occurring immediately east of an ongoing earthquake swarm near Miyako Island, not far from Taiwan. According to mapping data displayed from the past 24 hours, the quake registered at 20.0 km depth and occurred along a well-defined tectonic boundary…

CENTRAL INDIANA — Heavy snow and sleet pushed into the region during the early morning hours Monday, creating rapidly deteriorating travel conditions across Indianapolis, Bloomington and extending east toward Dayton, Ohio. Radar imagery around 3:20 AM Monday, March 2, 2026 shows a solid band of wintry precipitation stretching from western Indiana across central portions of…

SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES — A developing spring pattern is beginning to lock into place, with high pressure centered over the Southeast steering repeated storm systems toward the Upper Gulf Coast and the middle of the country. The result: a pronounced 7-day rainfall corridor stretching from Texas through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and into the Ohio…