MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — A powerful omega block pattern is forecast to lock into place across the United States from May 19 through May 24, trapping warm air across the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest for an extended stretch while pushing moisture south and away from the drought-stricken central Plains. The pattern gets its name from…
NEW YORK, New York — The 1938 New England Hurricane — a catastrophic storm that struck Long Island and coastal southern New England without warning — has been reconstructed using modern forecast cone technology to show what today’s computer models would have communicated to the public 48 hours before landfall. The result is sobering. Modern…
BALTIMORE, Maryland — Severe drought conditions expanded across central Maryland as of Thursday May 7, 2026, now covering Frederick, Baltimore, Harford and Cecil counties as well as more of the Delmarva Peninsula. The expansion comes despite light rain falling Wednesday — Baltimore’s BWI airport recorded only 0.14 inches Wednesday and a combined 0.29 inches including…
ORLANDO, Florida — Florida is breaking or approaching record high temperatures across much of the peninsula Thursday May 7, 2026, with highs ranging from 94 to 96 degrees across central and eastern Florida. The dangerous heat is combining with low humidity and elevated winds to create critical fire weather conditions across much of the eastern…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — The next 7 days through May 14, 2026 will bring additional shower chances across the Midwest and Ohio Valley with more breaks between systems compared to the exceptionally wet April that just wrapped up. The heaviest rainfall totals through May 14 are concentrated across Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky with Indianapolis, Columbus, Dayton…
ORLANDO, Florida — Florida and the broader Southeast are heading into a summer rainfall outlook that is raising serious concerns about drought expansion and wildfire danger across a region already gripped by extreme to exceptional drought. The summer precipitation forecast points toward drier than normal conditions across Florida through July 2026, driven by large-scale atmospheric…
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Sunshine is breaking through thinning clouds across the Carolinas Thursday but a cold front is still on the way and will arrive by 5 PM Friday, bringing one more round of scattered to isolated showers and thunderstorms along the frontal boundary. Rain coverage will be less than what fell overnight and…
ORLANDO, Florida — A Level 1 out of 5 severe storm risk is in place for central Florida this Friday afternoon and evening, with high instability and strong winds aloft combining to fuel the potential for large hailstones and damaging wind gusts across a corridor stretching from Gainesville and Ocala through Daytona Beach, Palm Coast…
JACKSON, Mississippi — You are more likely to be hit or killed by a tornado in Mississippi and Alabama than anywhere else on Earth. That is not a dramatic claim — it is what 68 years of tornado path data from 1950 to 2018 shows when averaged by total path damage per year per unit…
WICHITA, Kansas — The next 10 days will bring a sharp split across the United States, with cooler than normal conditions settling across the eastern half of the country while the Plains, Southwest and Rockies bake under above-average temperatures that will directly worsen an already serious drought. Severe weather activity will remain fairly limited across…