Author: Colton Hayes

WALDRON, ARKANSAS — A major pattern shift is setting up across the central United States, with forecast data signaling an increasingly active stretch of storms and cold fronts during the first half of March. The latest model anomaly guidance highlights a significant wetter-than-normal corridor from Little Rock, Arkansas, through St. Louis, Missouri, and east toward…

WALDRON, ARKANSAS — A large portion of the southern and eastern United States is expected to experience above-normal temperatures from March 5 through March 11, 2026, according to the latest 8–14 Day Temperature Outlook issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center on February 25. The forecast places Arkansas and much of the Deep South squarely within…

NEBRASKA — A Fire Weather Watch has been issued for southwest Nebraska, where strong, gusty winds combined with unseasonably warm temperatures and low humidity are expected to create dangerous wildfire conditions Wednesday afternoon. According to the National Weather Service in North Platte, the primary concern is strong to significant wind gusts, which could rapidly spread…

PENNSYLVANIA — A powerful Sunday into Monday winter storm delivered widespread double-digit snowfall totals across eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, with several communities topping 20 inches and parts of coastal New Jersey approaching 30 inches. Newly released snowfall analysis from the National Weather Service Local Storm Reports and CoCoRaHS network shows a sharp…

UNITED STATES — In a stunning display of atmospheric extremes, two of the planet’s most powerful storm types underwent rapid intensification within the same 24-hour period — one off the coast of New England and the other in the Southern Hemisphere. A cold-core extratropical cyclone strengthened explosively into a historic blizzard — often referred to…

UNITED STATES — A slow-moving frontal boundary is expected to slide into the Southeast this weekend, bringing periods of lingering rain from Friday into Saturday across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. While the system is not expected to deliver a strong cooldown, forecast guidance suggests it could produce widespread rainfall totals of one inch or…

OREGON — A 36-hour atmospheric river event drenched parts of western Oregon between February 22–24, 2026, delivering the heaviest rainfall to the southern Willamette Valley while leaving some northwestern areas with significantly lighter totals. According to data from the National Weather Service in Portland, rainfall amounts approached 3 inches in parts of the valley, and…

UNITED STATES — A new model run is intensifying the snowfall conversation for the Northeast, with the latest 18z GFS Kuchera output projecting a significant band of heavy snow from Pennsylvania through New York and into southern New England for Monday into early Tuesday, March 2–3, 2026. However, forecasters caution that not all global models…

UNITED STATES — The National Weather Service is preparing to roll out updates to the Storm Prediction Center’s (SPC) convective outlook graphics beginning March 3, bringing changes to how severe weather probabilities are displayed across the country — particularly in high-risk states like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The update will impact the familiar…

UNITED STATES — Long-range guidance is increasingly pointing toward a notable uptick in severe weather potential during the week of March 10–16, 2026, with the strongest signal centered across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. The latest CFSv2 Week 3 Accumulated Supercell Composite Parameter highlights a concentrated corridor of elevated values stretching from the western Gulf…