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TOPEKA, Kansas — Monday, May 18, 2026 is shaping up as a potentially significant severe weather day across the Plains, with a 30 percent Enhanced Risk severe weather outlook in place across parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, and a severe weather outbreak considered possible. The overall risk could extend into the Southern Plains…

WICHITA, Kansas — Two distinct storm regimes are being monitored across Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles this evening, Thursday, May 14, 2026, each producing a different type of threat for different communities. One zone faces dry gusty microbursts with 60 to 80 mph wind gusts. Another zone is watching for a potential hail-producing…

WASHINGTON, DC — Summer heat is returning fast to the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia region, with the first 90-degree day of this next heat stretch possible as soon as Sunday, May 17, 2026. Monday, May 18 and Tuesday, May 19 could be real scorchers with widespread highs in the low to mid 90s across…

HUDSON, Florida — Two tornadoes have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in Pasco County, Florida on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, both rated EF-0 with peak winds of 85 mph and zero fatalities or injuries reported. The Hudson tornado and the Shady Hills tornado struck within 30 minutes of each other along the Pasco…

SYRACUSE, New York — A line of strong to severe storms is sweeping through the Northeast United States on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, bringing damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and large hail up to 1 inch in diameter across New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont from the afternoon hours through nearly midnight. Storm arrival…

WICHITA, Kansas — High-based rotating supercells are expected to fire across Kansas on Thursday, May 14, 2026, targeting a concentrated zone from Salina and Emporia southward through Wichita and Topeka, with hail up to 2 inches in diameter and sporadic damaging gusts as the primary threats during the afternoon hours. The tornado threat is very…

WASHINGTON, DC — Chatter about an incoming Super El Nino has been growing, and while comparisons to the devastating 1877 event sound alarming, the likely impacts on North America and the Washington DC region are very different from what that historic event did globally in terms of droughts and famine. Here is what a typical…

MIAMI, Florida — For the first time in 2026, a computer model is showing a low-probability signal for tropical development in the southwest Atlantic, with the potential activity appearing in the 8 to 10 day timeframe around Saturday, May 23, 2026. While the probability is low and only a handful of ensemble model runs are…

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — Big downpours are tracking east right now along the Interstate 95 corridor through Volusia and Flagler Counties, Florida as of 6:24 PM Tuesday, May 12, 2026, with 20 total lightning strikes recorded and heavy rainfall causing near-zero visibility on Interstate 95 near Ormond Beach. This is the last real rain chance…

BALTIMORE, Maryland — A stark rainfall divide has been carving through the Mid-Atlantic region over the past 60 days, from March 13 through May 12, 2026, leaving Maryland and Virginia in a deepening drought while communities north of a sharp storm track boundary across Pennsylvania have seen surplus rainfall of 2 to 4 inches above…