Author: Colton Hayes

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Evening model data is holding firm on a healthy line of severe thunderstorms pushing from Kansas City to South Bend during Monday night into Tuesday morning May 5, with the simulated radar valid at midnight Tuesday showing a well-organized and intense storm line stretching across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The storm…

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Tuesday is shaping up as a classic isolated severe weather day across Arkansas, with storms expected to mature during the evening hours as the atmospheric setup favors discrete supercell development rather than a large organized line. Upper level winds oriented more westerly support isolated storm mode, and a modest but present…

JACKSON, Mississippi — A large Day 5 Slight Risk of severe weather has been issued for Wednesday May 6 covering a broad corridor from eastern Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, and into Alabama. The risk zone stretches from Houston and Shreveport on the western end through Jackson and New Orleans in the core and reaching Birmingham…

DENVER, Colorado — A significant forecast uncertainty is developing over the Rocky Mountain region heading into next week, and the outcome depends entirely on how two separate atmospheric features come together over Colorado. A cold front approaching from the north late Monday and a trough of low pressure moving out of the desert Southwest into…

JACKSON, Mississippi — Severe weather risk areas are now introduced for both Tuesday May 5 and Wednesday May 6 across a corridor stretching from the southern Plains through the Deep South, with the threat zone shifting southward between the two days and targeting different communities on each. Mixed-mode convection within a strongly sheared warm sector…

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Most of Alabama is sitting under clear and cool conditions this Sunday evening with only a few small isolated showers near the Tennessee state line touching the northernmost counties around Huntsville and the Pulaski corridor. The radar at 6:48 PM CDT shows the activity well north of Birmingham and confined to a…

WINCHESTER, Virginia — Freeze warnings and frost advisories are in effect tonight across western Virginia and western Maryland, stretching from Oakland and Cumberland in Maryland down through Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Charlottesville in Virginia. Skies are clearing late tonight and temperatures are dropping fast, bottoming out in the mid-30s to mid-40s with the coldest readings…

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — The seven-day rainfall outlook from Saturday May 2 through Saturday May 9 is drawing a dramatic line across the country that separates farmers who cannot get into their fields from farmers who can work freely but are watching their soils dry out further. The Eastern Agricultural Belt covering Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee,…

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Saturday’s rain event across the Carolinas is trending lighter and more coastal than earlier forecasts suggested, with the rainfall gradient telling a clear story from west to east. Charlotte picks up 0.31 inches, western North Carolina communities like Asheville and Hickory come in at 0.03 to 0.07 inches, and the coast…

BALTIMORE, Maryland — Areas north and west of Interstate 95 in Maryland are heading into a frost and freeze risk tonight as apparent temperatures drop into the 30s by early Sunday morning, with some western Maryland locations seeing readings in the upper 20s on the forecast map. The cold bite tonight is a short-term event,…