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CHICAGO, Illinois — NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has issued a formal Hazardous Temperature outlook for the period May 2 through 8, placing Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and surrounding Great Lakes states under a Moderate Risk of Much Below Normal Temperatures. The most dangerous cold arrives May 2 through 3 when temperatures across the core…

DES MOINES, Iowa — The frost season is not over for a large portion of the country — it is just getting reorganized. A frost risk outlook running through mid-May shows three distinct danger windows rolling across the Northeast, Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Plains in sequence, with the coldest and most persistent risk concentrated…

TULSA, Oklahoma — Saturday is shaping up as a significant severe weather day across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and parts of Texas, with the main story being very large to potentially giant hail. Intense supercells are expected to develop by late afternoon across Oklahoma and Kansas, capable of producing hailstones up to 3 inches in diameter,…

DALLAS, Texas — The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma to an Enhanced Risk (Level 3 of 5) for today, Friday April 24, with the threat centered on supercells capable of producing very large hail measuring 2 inches or larger. Those same supercells will also pose a tornado threat before storms…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Good news for anyone with Saturday morning plans across the D.C. metro, Maryland, and Virginia: the bulk of Saturday’s rain is not arriving until late afternoon at the earliest, and most of it falls between 4 PM Saturday and 4 AM Sunday. The morning and early afternoon will be cloudy and cool…

DENVER, Colorado — Seven days of accumulated precipitation models are pointing toward a meaningful wet stretch across Colorado and the Central Rockies through early May, with some areas potentially picking up 2 to 3 inches of total liquid equivalent by Saturday, May 2. The bull’s-eye on the NBM precipitation map sits across north-central Colorado where…

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — An organized band of showers and storms is arriving across Alabama tonight, and while the SPC has issued a Marginal Risk for the western third of the state and a Slight Risk near the Mississippi border, this is not a major severe weather event for most of Alabama. The threat is real…

WICHITA, Kansas — Sunday’s severe weather threat across the Central Plains has been upgraded to an Enhanced Risk (Level 3 of 5) covering portions of Kansas and Missouri, with Wichita sitting directly inside the orange core zone. A strong atmospheric trough and a highly favorable severe weather environment are locked in place across the Plains…

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Monday’s severe weather story for Middle Tennessee has shifted and in some ways the shift makes it more insidious, not less dangerous. The significant tornado outbreak that was once possible for Nashville has become less likely as the overall storm system has slowed down significantly. What remains is a strong Quasi-Linear Convective…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The record books in Washington D.C. are being rewritten in real time — and then slammed shut. The nation’s capital has hit 80 degrees or higher on 15 separate days so far in 2026, shattering the previous record of 13 days set back in 1976 and running nearly three times the historical…