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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Every major atmospheric data source is now pointing to Wednesday, May 6, 2026 as a significant and potentially dangerous severe weather day across Arkansas and Mississippi, with a cutoff low pressure system over the southwestern United States phasing with an eastern jet stream to concentrate extreme wind shear directly over the…

HOUSTON, Texas — An emerging El Nino pattern is shaping up to be the dominant force behind Summer 2026 temperatures across the United States, with a temperature outlook issued May 4, 2026 calling for an above-average summer across the South and West and a below-average summer across the Great Lakes, Upper Midwest and Northeast. By…

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The atmosphere across Arkansas is loading up for a dangerous Wednesday evening, May 6, 2026, with conditions favorable for strong tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds as scattered supercells are expected to fire by evening across a state sitting directly in the crosshairs of a powerful low-level wind shear and moisture…

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — The best rain chance in months is arriving for North Carolina and South Carolina this week, with Wednesday night into Thursday bringing the highest rainfall probability of the next seven days to a region that has been running significant moisture deficits for weeks. Totals will vary widely from 0.25 to over…

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The Tuesday, May 5 tornado threat across central and northern Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma has escalated with the latest model data showing an uptick in low-level shear that directly increases the potential for significant tornadoes between 4 PM and 10 PM. Supercells are forecast to erupt across northern Arkansas by 4…

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — A formal Tornado Outlook has been issued for Arkansas valid through Wednesday, May 6 at 7:00 AM CDT, placing a large portion of the state inside a 15 to 29 percent tornado probability zone during the late afternoon and evening hours of Tuesday, May 5. A couple of EF2 or stronger…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After nine consecutive days of below-average temperatures, Washington D.C. is getting one brief window of warmth this week before the cold returns just as quickly as it left. Temperatures today are running close to the seasonal average for the first time in over a week, with Tuesday expected to surge into the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three entirely separate and simultaneous weather threats are unfolding across the United States on Sunday, May 3, 2026, affecting communities from the Gulf Coast to the Northern Plains. Isolated severe storms are firing across the Mississippi Valley this evening, thunderstorm clusters are pushing flash flooding risks across the Florida peninsula, and an…

JACKSON, Mississippi — A tornado probability forecast initialized Sunday morning, May 3, 2026 places Mississippi and Louisiana inside an elevated to medium tornado threat zone for Wednesday, May 6, with the highest probability values reaching the green shading band representing 40 to 50 percent tornado likelihood across a concentrated core centered over the two states….

JACKSON, Mississippi — A severe weather outlook covering a wide swath of the Gulf South has been issued for Wednesday, May 6, 2026, placing Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama under a possible severe weather zone that stretches from Houston northeast through Shreveport, Monroe, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Tupelo and Birmingham. The outlook was updated May 3 at…