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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…

CHICAGO, Illinois — The severe weather machine that spent the weekend tearing through Oklahoma and Kansas is not finished. It is reorganizing, reloading, and pointing directly at the Midwest and Mid-South for Monday, April 27 — and the data is now serious enough that forecasters are explicitly flagging a higher-end severe weather and tornado outbreak…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The sounding data coming out of Oklahoma for Sunday is generating the kind of numbers that make experienced meteorologists stop and stare. A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) tornado setup is taking shape across Oklahoma for Sunday afternoon and evening — the highest and most serious tornado classification that forecasters issue. With…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Everything that defined April’s weather pattern is about to flip on its head when May arrives. The region that spent April drowning in storms — the Midwest and Great Lakes — is about to get shoved into a late-season frost and freeze threat. Meanwhile, the South and Southeast, which spent all of…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — The hail threat for Saturday, April 25 just got upgraded — and the numbers are sobering. Forecasters are now comfortable calling for hail up to softball size — 4 inches in diameter — with the strongest supercells forming east of I-35 in eastern Oklahoma. The white softball zone on the maximum…

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Friday’s forecast for Oklahoma sounds almost contradictory: mostly sunny skies with a slight chance of strong tornadoes. That is not a mistake — it is exactly what forecasters are dealing with, and understanding why makes this one of the more unusual and dangerous setups of the week. The atmosphere over Oklahoma…