UNITED STATES — A rapidly intensifying storm system is poised to deliver a dramatic weather contrast on Sunday, with severe thunderstorms erupting across the South while heavy snow wraps around the system from the Midwest into the Great Lakes. Forecast guidance shows a deep low pressure center near 984 mb tracking into the Upper Midwest…
UNITED STATES — A major winter storm is increasingly likely to deliver widespread impacts from the northern High Plains through the Upper Midwest and into the Great Lakes this weekend, with heavy snow, strong winds and dangerous travel conditions expected from Friday through Monday. Forecasters indicate high confidence that this system will rapidly strengthen as…
UNITED STATES — The latest outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center indicates a major shift underway in the Pacific Ocean, with La Niña expected to fade in the coming weeks, ENSO-neutral conditions favored this spring, and El Niño increasingly likely to develop by summer 2026. Newly issued probability guidance for March 2026 shows a clear…
UNITED STATES — Confidence is increasing that a significant winter storm will impact Wisconsin from Saturday night through Monday, with widespread snowfall totals of 12 inches or more possible and wind gusts strong enough to create near-blizzard conditions. The latest forecast guidance highlights a broad zone across central and northern Wisconsin where the probability of…
UNITED STATES — A powerful winter system dubbed Winter Storm Iona is set to unload extraordinary snowfall totals across the Upper Midwest from Saturday through Monday, with some areas in Wisconsin and Michigan projected to receive an astonishing 2 to 3 feet of snow. Forecast maps indicate a sprawling swath of heavy accumulation stretching from…
UNITED STATES — A strengthening area of low pressure is set to track across the Great Lakes tonight into Friday, unleashing a surge of strong winds across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and parts of Wisconsin. Forecast wind projections show widespread gusts exceeding 40 mph, with pockets of 50–60 mph gusts possible — and isolated higher…
UNITED STATES — Any brief lull in severe weather appears short-lived. Forecast models are converging on a powerful upper-level trough ejecting into the central United States this weekend, setting the stage for renewed severe thunderstorm development from the Mid-South on Sunday into the Mid-Atlantic by Monday. The evolving setup shows a dynamic storm system interacting…
UNITED STATES — A dramatic temperature divide across Illinois is fueling dangerous storm development this evening, with Chicago trapped in chilly upper-30-degree air while areas just to the south bake in the 70s and even low 80s. Real-time temperature analysis late Tuesday night shows one of the sharpest thermal gradients of the season stretched across…
UNITED STATES — High-resolution weather models are signaling the potential for rotating supercells across northern Maryland and the greater Washington–Baltimore corridor this evening, raising concerns for large hail, damaging wind gusts, and even an isolated tornado. Model projections focus particularly on areas west and northwest of Baltimore before storms track toward the metro region later…
UNITED STATES — A sprawling and dangerous severe weather outbreak that ignited Tuesday evening across the Central United States is continuing this morning as the system pushes eastward, leaving behind a corridor of widespread warnings stretching from South Texas to the Great Lakes. According to compiled alert data from March 10–11, a staggering 356 severe…