Author: Nina Clarke

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — The national severe weather outlook just got more serious. The Storm Prediction Center has officially upgraded western Oklahoma, southern Kansas, and northwest Texas to an Enhanced Risk — Level 3 on the five-tier national scale — with the primary driver being an extreme hail threat that forecasters are describing as gorilla…

KANSAS CITY, MO — The central United States is entering one of the most active severe weather stretches of the young spring season, with back-to-back high-probability storm corridors locked into the eight-day outlook and model data showing the kind of agreement that forecasters pay close attention to — two independent atmospheric models both flagging the…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A significant severe weather day is locked in for Wednesday, April 1 across the southern and central Plains, as a powerful storm system pushes an Enhanced Risk — the third-highest category on the national severe weather scale — directly over portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, threatening millions of residents with…

DALLAS, TX — After years of punishing heat and drought cycles, the atmospheric signals now lining up for Texas and the Southern Plains are painting a picture that forecasters rarely get to describe for this region: a summer that may actually bring meaningful, sustained rainfall and temperatures that stay below the brutal extremes residents have…

FAIRBANKS, AK — History was made in Fairbanks, Alaska — and it was made in the most brutal way possible. The numbers are now official, and the 2025-26 winter season has been confirmed as the all-time coldest December through March on record for one of America’s most extreme cold-weather cities, surpassing every season in a…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A wall of violent weather is bearing down on Oklahoma Wednesday afternoon, and forecasters are calling it the most significant severe weather threat the state has seen since early March — a system loaded with every ingredient needed to produce tornadoes, baseball-sized hail, and hurricane-force wind gusts across millions of people…

SPRINGFIELD, IL — The skies over central Illinois and eastern Missouri are about to get very dangerous — and the atmospheric data building ahead of Thursday’s storm system leaves little room for reassurance. A severe weather outbreak is taking shape across the central United States, with conditions aligned to support rotating thunderstorms capable of producing…

DES MOINES, IA — After one of the most active and wet early April stretches in recent memory across the central United States, the latest long-range precipitation data is now showing something that farmers, field workers and outdoor planners across the Midwest have been waiting for — a brief but meaningful dry window opening around…

CHICAGO, IL — Thursday April 2nd is shaping up to be one of the most significant severe weather days the Midwest has seen this spring — and the latest outlook update issued March 31, 2026 at 5:02 PM ET is now placing a Slight Risk zone directly over Chicago, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Springfield IL and…

CHICAGO, IL — Today is a severe weather day across the Midwest and Great Lakes region — and the Storm Prediction Center has made it official. A Slight Risk of severe weather, rated Level 2 out of 5, is in effect for Tuesday March 31, 2026 across a broad corridor covering Chicago, Detroit, Fort Wayne,…