Author: Nina Clarke

CHICAGO – A developing storm system sweeping across parts of the Midwest and Lower Mississippi Valley Thursday evening is failing to organize into a significant severe weather outbreak, with meteorologists noting very limited instability despite strong wind shear across the region. Radar imagery and atmospheric analysis show storms stretching from southeast Missouri through Arkansas and…

MISSISSIPPI — A broad but organized storm system is expected to move from the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley on Friday, placing multiple states under a marginal risk for severe weather, according to the latest SPC Day 1 Outlook. While this is not a high-end outbreak scenario, conditions will support pockets of strong…

ILLINOIS — New ice data for January 8, 2026 shows below-average ice cover across the Great Lakes, with the system sitting at 11% total ice coverage, well under the long-term seasonal average of 15%. The numbers highlight a slow start to winter ice development across lakes bordering Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois,…

UNITED STATES — A broad swath of the central and eastern United States is under a Marginal Risk for severe storms as forecast models continue to lock in a dynamic weather setup stretching from the southern Plains into the mid-Mississippi Valley and lower Ohio Valley late Thursday into Friday, according to the Storm Prediction Center…

MISSISSIPPI — A strengthening cold front moving east on Friday is expected to trigger severe thunderstorms and a growing flash flooding threat across Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and northern Louisiana, placing much of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Mid-South in an active and potentially dangerous weather setup. Forecast data shows the region entering a transition zone…

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — A historic chapter in Alaska’s weather records has officially closed after Fairbanks International Airport recorded a low temperature of -11°F, ending an extraordinary cold spell that now ranks among the longest extreme freezes in the city’s documented history. According to data from the National Weather Service Fairbanks, the region just experienced 33…

TEXAS – A Day 1 Marginal Risk for severe weather has been issued by the Storm Prediction Center for parts of west and northwest Texas, extending into southwest and central Oklahoma, signaling a low-end but noteworthy severe setup as the broader winter pattern continues to shift across the central United States. This setup is not…

OHIO VALLEY — After days of unseasonably warm weather, attention is now shifting back toward a more wintry setup across Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, where forecast models are increasingly highlighting a classic transition-zone scenario. This region sits directly between advancing arctic air from the north and a more active southern storm track — a setup…

CHICAGO — After an unusually warm stretch that pushed temperatures far above normal across much of the Midwest and East Coast, winter is preparing to reassert itself. New atmospheric signals show arctic air rebuilding and sliding back into the eastern United States, setting the stage for a colder and potentially stormier pattern heading into the…