Weather

UNITED STATES — The most significant severe weather signal of the entire week arrives on Friday, April 3, 2026. The NSSL Machine Learning Severe Weather Model is showing its strongest and most concentrated severe probability output of the spring active pattern for Friday — a deep purple to black core centered over the Missouri, Illinois,…

UNITED STATES — The NSSL Machine Learning Severe Weather Model is issuing one of its stronger signals of the spring season for Wednesday, April 1, 2026 — flagging a higher-end severe weather setup across two distinct zones simultaneously. A deep probability core centered over Kansas and Oklahoma represents the primary Plains threat, while a separate…

UNITED STATES — Severe thunderstorms are moving into position across the Midwest and Lower Great Lakes this afternoon and evening, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The Storm Prediction Center has placed a Slight Risk — Level 2 of 5 across a corridor stretching from Chicago and Milwaukee through Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Syracuse. Damaging winds…

UNITED STATES — An all-hazards severe weather threat is in place across a broad corridor stretching from southern Iowa through Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and into Texas for Wednesday, April 1, 2026. Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are all possible across this entire zone — but the most critical detail in Wednesday’s forecast is the…

UNITED STATES — An elevated and serious tornado threat is locked in for Wednesday, April 1, 2026 across a corridor stretching from northern Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, and into Missouri. The Storm Prediction Center tornado probability map shows a 10% tornado zone centered over some of the most populated cities in the southern Plains —…

UNITED STATES — A significant and concerning tornado threat is developing across the southern Plains for Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Day 2 tornado outlook placing Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, and western Missouri under a 5% tornado probability with the possibility of significant EF2 or stronger tornadoes — and forecasters…

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — The Baltimore metro area and surrounding Maryland communities are heading into one of the most dramatic two-day weather swings of the spring season. Scattered strong thunderstorms are expected to develop Wednesday evening, April 1, 2026, in a warm air mass pushing temperatures into the low to mid 80s — before a powerful…

UNITED STATES — A complex and potentially significant frontal boundary setup is taking shape across a large portion of the United States for Friday evening, April 3, 2026. A cold front dropping through the central Plains, a dryline developing over Texas and Oklahoma, and a stationary front stretching from the Great Lakes through the Northeast…

PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA — Sixty-two years ago this week, the ground beneath southcentral Alaska did something that most people alive today have never experienced and hopefully never will. On March 27, 1964 at 5:36 PM local time, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake — the second largest ever recorded in human history — tore through Prince…

VANUATU, PACIFIC OCEAN — A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Monday, March 30, 2026, rattling one of the most seismically active stretches of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The earthquake was centered 35 kilometers northeast of Luganville, Vanuatu, and struck at 4:44 AM ET — shortly before 8…