Author: Colton Hayes

UNITED STATES — The weather pattern across the central United States is shifting, with attention turning away from winter storms and toward an increasingly favorable severe weather setup from March 3 through March 10. New accumulated supercell composite parameter data for Week 2 shows a concentrated corridor of higher severe storm favorability centered over parts…

MISSISSIPPI — A subtle but potentially concerning tornado setup is taking shape across central Mississippi into west-central Alabama Thursday evening, with areas including Jackson, Meridian, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham positioned near a narrow corridor of enhanced storm ingredients. Forecasters are describing the threat as “sneaky” — not because the environment looks explosive at first glance, but…

JAMAICA — Hurricane Melissa has officially entered the history books, tying the record for the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin and delivering catastrophic Category 5 conditions at landfall near New Hope, Jamaica. New details confirm that Melissa reached 190 mph sustained winds, matching Hurricane Allen (1980) for the highest sustained wind speed…

UNITED STATES — After a brief lull, the atmospheric pattern across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley appears primed for another round of severe weather as rich Gulf moisture surges northward into Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas ahead of a developing system around March 8. Forecast model data valid Sunday evening shows a sharp…

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…